We just got back from East Shore Park at the south end of Cayuga Lake where the Aythya raft is showing well with many birds quite close to shore. Among the throng of Redheads are lower numbers of Canvasback and both scaup, as well as the continuing CANVASBACK x REDHEAD HYBRID, REDHEAD x SCAUP SP. HYBRID, and leucistic Redhead. Two GLAUCOUS GULLS, the usual 3rd cycle and a pale 1st cycle, arrived a little after 2:00 from the compost where we saw them earlier, and a brown 1st cycle ICELAND GULL was also out on the lake in the Redhead flock. Two adult Iceland Gulls were reported earlier in the day and could easily have been present in the gull flock at the ice edge.
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