[cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay Aythya raft

2011-01-31 Thread Marie P Read
Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads with 
some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost directly 
below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had slowly moved 
southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45 am. I had a lot 
of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter, watching as the raft 
slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around. One still photo, 
showing just part of the raft, is here:

http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42pos=10

Anybody want to count 'em???

Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured field 
just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??) had a 
large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks.
There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that got 
me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes!

A pretty winter day.

Marie



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Freeville NY  13068 USA

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay Aythya raft

2011-01-31 Thread Asher Hockett
That photo reminds me of those MagicEye images where when you hold it close
and move it slowly away you will be able to see a hidden picture. This one
has Donald Duck, I think.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marie P Read m...@cornell.edu wrote:

 Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads
 with some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost
 directly below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had
 slowly moved southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45
 am. I had a lot of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter,
 watching as the raft slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around.
 One still photo, showing just part of the raft, is here:

 http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42pos=10

 Anybody want to count 'em???

 Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured
 field just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??)
 had a large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks.
 There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that
 got me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes!

 A pretty winter day.

 Marie



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