I did not notice its absence last Saturday; I distinctly remember it being still there two weekends ago, when a/the adult bald eagle was hanging out in a neighboring tree -- which seemed odd to me since I thought that snag was its favored perch. The cormorants, likewise, have eschewed this snag the entire season, congregating instead on a tree on the other side of Jetty Woods facing the Treman Marina. I wonder if the snag had noticeable wobbliness enough to keep the eagle and cormorants away.
Suan On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Jay McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Livia and I checked Stewart Park at lunch today. Although it was raining > steadily, the lake was very calm and ducks were easy to see around the weed > mats towards the east end of the park. We didn't find anything that hasn't > been around for a while, but did see the continuing male GREATER SCAUP, 2 > female RING-NECKED DUCKS, female RUDDY DUCK, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON, Hooded > Merganser, AMERICAN COOT, at least 5 Pied-billed Grebes, multiple American > Black Ducks, and tons of Mallards. A MERLIN was perched on the dead tree on > the swan pen island, an adult BALD EAGLE was in a small dead snag along the > shore of the swan pen, and an immature BALD EAGLE flew by out of jetty > woods. > > The most notable sighting, however, was the fact that the famous large snag > across the channel from the boat house (the > cormorant/osprey/eagle/Merlin/Peregrine tree) is GONE. I haven't been to > Stewart Park for a few days, so I don't know when this happened, and I also > couldn't tell WHAT exactly happened. It looks like it might be broken at the > base, so perhaps it finally fell over from natural causes and was cleared > away to keep the channel open. I would be interested to know if anyone has > more information about this. In any case, I consider this a huge loss to the > birding community. It will be missed. > > > -- > Jay McGowan > Macaulay Library > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > [email protected] > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
