On Thursday the 28th, while looking for short eared owls on Dean Rd in Lodi, Seneca County, a flock of snow geese flew over, mostly hidden by the low-hanging clouds. They were heading south, but circled back north before going out of ear shot. Merlin indicated that in addition to snow geese, there were tundra swans and cackling geese in the flock. Should Merlin be believed? --Marty
From: bounce-127957809-3494...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-127957809-3494...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Dave Nutter Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2023 10:10 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Count Week Tundra Swans A few minutes ago a flock of 26 TUNDRA SWANS circled over downtown Ithaca, last seen heading south. Caleb Centanni (whom I just met) and I saw them first from near the Children’s Garden and then I hustled home to add them to my daily yard list. I think this is an unusual species for the count, and being flyovers, I suspect they will not stick around until January 1, even though they were not very high. - - Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> ABA<https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --