Bob McGuire led a great trip today around Cayuga Lake. Car-pooling from the Lab of O, the first stop was Stewart Park, where I met the group. Waterfowl were sparse (we heard gunfire from the west and north) and often hidden behind the mounds of ice, but a highlight for me was a female BUFFLEHEAD
There was 200 to 300 snow buntings just west of the observatory on mt
pleasant on the south side of the road not to far off the road at about 3:15
PM. When I turned around at Mineah and came back I could not find them.
They were either low in the brown grasses or in a constant undulating mass
and
