[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, East Shore and Myers
Cold Sunday finds at Stewart Park:Hooded MerganserCommon MerganserWood Duck (single pair)imm. Bald Eagle on shore4 Great Blue Herons (in single cove behind Visitor's Center)aythya rafts (l. and g. scaup, redheads)Herring, Ring-billed, Greater Black-backed Gulls East Shore:Common GoldeneyeRed-breasted MerganserCommon Merganser Myers:Green-winged TealMallardsNorthern PintailAm. WigeonLesser ScaupRedheadBuffleheadAm. CootSharp-shinned Hawk3 intrepid Tree Swallows And finally, atop a misty Mt. Pleasant: Crows and Canada Geese in the mist, as well as 3 female Horned Larks Fast-Growing Industry A New Player In The Booming Bottled Water Market. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/533895f0ba68415f04ba9st04duc -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, East Shore Sat PM
The viewing conditions were excellent this afternoon from East Shore Park and Stewart Park. Although waterfowl diversity seemed lower today, it was a good day for picking out non-waterfowl waterbirds. Highlights included two RED-THROATED LOONS far to the northwest -- I wasn't sure if I was seeing the same bird moving, but eventually saw both birds on a single scan. Also 2 COMMON LOONS, 3 HORNED GREBES, (the) 1 RED-NECKED GREBE (close to the red jetty; also nicely visible from Stewart Park), 1 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT (hanging with the tight flock of COOTS), and a single GREAT BLUE HERON on the ice with gulls. Unlike on Tuesday, large numbers of gulls came in to loaf on the ice and nearshore water before heading out to the lake -- despite counting 620 HERRING and 115 GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS, I could not find anything even semi-unusual in the flocks. The Redhead, etc flock was not present in the southwest corner of the lake, but a small number of REDHEAD were among the still-very-large numbers of MALLARDs off Stewart Park. A single female NORTHERN PINTAIL was the only different duck I saw. Oh, a single SNOW GOOSE was way up the west side of the lake -- probably injured. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park/East Shore
The LAUGHING GULL was back on the Red Lighthouse Jetty (on the Stewart Park side) when I left around 2pm. There was also a GREATER YELLOWLEGS flying/calling around the Swan Pen. >From East Shore Park Paul Hurtado and I watched a medium-sized group of BRANT and an even more distant flock of all three SCOTER species. Good birding, Ryan -- Ryan Douglas r...@cornell.edu Dept. of Plant Biology 142 Emerson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
