The more I look at my grebe photo...the head shape seems
to make it a horned grebe to me, it is not peaked toward the front
of the head...also the white is fairly prominent... not enough duskiness
thoughts???
From: david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com
To: Cayugabirds- L Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu; Bluewing
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Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 7:59 PM
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Around Cayuga Lake and Montezuma Today 04 March 2012
Took a trip up and around Cayuga Lake today with my father-in-law
and brother-in-law. We also went to the Mucklands. The main goal
was to see large numbers of snow geese and the bald eagle nest at
Mud Lock. In between snow squalls, we succeeded. Great views of
the Bald Eagle pair. One on nest and the other posing in the dead tree
to the right of the nest.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157629513869791/with/6807715836/
Also found two large rafts of snow geese on the west side of the lake in between
more snow squalls from lower lake road.
Photos and short video of the closest raft can be found here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157629149230304/
In addition, huge aythya raft continues near the Twin Orchards
Campground.
From east road there were many northern pintails, also got my
FOY NORTHERN SHOVELER.
There was a smaller flock of snow geese at the mucklands...many
hunters around. This group was probably around 10,000 or so.
I also had a couple horned grebes at the Aurora boathouse and one
grebe that was too far at the time to tell if it was a horned or eared grebe
in my opinion. I have yet to get the eared grebe at this location and
have never seen one yet. So I am not familiar with these species.
The wind was blowing hard, the waves were choppy, eyes tearing in
the wind and it was very cold so I did not spend much time on it. So
I snapped a bunch of digi-scoped images...most came out blurry ...but
I did manage this one... Is this an eared grebe?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/6808014060/in/photostream
Thanks!
Dave Nicosia
Johnson City, NY
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