Forwarding for Bob Spahn. The Ross's Gull was not reported today, Tuesday.
Willie
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Willie D'Anna
Betsy Potter
Niagara Falls, N.Y.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This afternoon about 3:00 I checked the mid-Bay open water area
where the gull has been since the south end froze. Nearly all that
center section was covered with ice. Only a handful of gulls and
a female Black Scoter were present. There is now almost no
open water south of the Rt 104 Irondequoit Bay Bridge. At 4:30
I looked from the North end of the Bay and found nearly the same
story, 99% frozen, with only a few distant patches kept open by
currents and the Mute Swan horde. The outlet is totally ice clogged
and frozen and shore ice extends out a quarter mile or more as far
as one can see either direction from that location. Thus the Bonaparte's
and Little gulls present the past few days off Durand-Eastman Park and
in the Bay are gone. One might check the mouth of the Genesee River,
though that too often freezes with the current winds.
I would not drive a long distance expeceting the Ross's Gull without
new input that it is relocated. Today lake effect made visibility on the
northern
2/3 of Irondequoit Bay nearly zero until after 11:00 AM. Cold and lake
effect snow is forecast at least through this week, with moderation on the
weekend and colder yet next week. We had nearly 10" of snow in this
area this morning. Roads, including down along the Bay were in good
shape this afternoon.
Sometimes when these conditions occur, most of the waterfowl end
up in the north end of Sodus Bay to the east near Sodus Point.
There is also a warm water pond and outflow into Lake Ontario at
Russell Station (a power station) a mile or so west of the mouth of the
Genesee River along Beach Avenue, left from the end of Lake Avenue
to a fisherman's parking lot on the left side of the road.
Bob Spahn
"Willie D'Anna & Betsy Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
