By the time Kevin McGowan arrived ~45 minutes later it was replaced by a RED-TAILED HAWK. Meanwhile I had been scanning the lake and did not see where it went, but honest there had been an adult PEREGRINE FALCON on the snag for several minutes. When I first saw it, its ruffled back was to me, its tail was spread and it kept lowering its head out of view then raising it and looking around while opening & closing its bill. I thought it might be mantling and feeding, but when it shifted position and turned around I saw it had nothing it its talons, and I could see that it was preening. Also of note: the pair of adult BALD EAGLES (one with squared off white on rump) again seen flying north and perching on the west side of Cayuga Lake in the same emergent White Pine between a big house with lots of steep gables on the left and a bright blue boathouse on the right. On the subject of raptors, there was at least half an adult GREAT HORNED OWL on the extreme far left side of the nest cavity in Renwick Sanctuary. Waterfowl seen from Stewart Park included:
TUNDRA SWAN - 10 CANADA GEESE GADWALL - 1 male, 1 female AMERICAN BLACK DUCK MALLARD AMERICAN WIGEON - at least 2 males with Aythya flock in southwest corner of lake CANVASBACK - at least 1 male with Aythya flock REDHEAD - dominant in SW corner of lake RING-NECKED DUCK - several in Aythya flock SCAUP, sp - at least 1 male in Aythya flock COMMON GOLDENEYE - fairly numerous COMMON MERGANSER - fairly numerous HOODED MERGANSER - 1 male, 1 female in southeast corner of lake RUDDY DUCK - 1 winter male LONG-TAILED DUCK - 1 winter male along ice edge at Stewart Park WHITE-WINGED SCOTER - 1 female type COMMON LOON - 2 staying close together AMERICAN COOT - several in southwest corner of lake RING-BILLED GULL HERRING GULL - (no unusual gulls that I could pick out) GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL BELTED KINGFISHER - 1 flew from 98% frozen Fall Creek past totally frozen lagoon --Dave Nutter On Thursday, December 24, 2009, at 08:40AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Peregrine stewart pk snag opp boathouse 1130 --dave nutter > >-- > >Cayugabirds-L List Info: >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > >Archives: >1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html >2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > >Please submit your observations to eBird: >http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > >-- > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
