The Redhead raft that was at the SW corner of Cayuga has gone mostly
missing, but a friend who lives just south of Taughannock park said they
were on the west shore serveral days ago. I'll post if they return to the
Hog Hole area. Today there were mostly Canada Geese and gull species, and
a clump of Mallards.
Elaina
On 2/4/11 6:00 PM, Marie P Read m...@cornell.edu wrote:
HI Cayugabirders,
I thought I would pass on this message I received just now, in case
people are wondering where the big Redhead raft might have moved to and
in prep for weekend birding adventures.
Enjoy the weekend.
Marie
From: Hopkins,Jeffrey A. [hopki...@airproducts.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:35 PM
To: Marie P Read
Subject: CAYUGABIRDS - Redhead Raft
Marie,
I saw your post on CAYUGABIRDS about the redheads having moved on, and
thought I'd reply (I'm not on the listserve - I'm just visiting Ithaca
for the weekend). Feel free to forward this to the list if you'd like.
I was birding at Myers Point at 4 PM this afternoon and had a large raft
of redheads along the eastern lakeshore south of the point. I don't know
if it was the raft you've been seeing, but it was certainly larger than
any number of redheads I've ever seen. It certainly was a few thousand.
Also there were quite a few ring-necks, mallards, and coots, 20-30 tundra
swans, a few scaup (at least one of which I could ID as a greater) and
common mergs, along with a lone female shoveler and a distant common
loon. And of course Canada geese. The north side of the point had all
the gulls and common goldeneye.
Good birding,
Jeff Hopkins
Whitehall, PA
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