Marie and others,
On Jan. 15, Jess Miller and I had the "redhead raft" in the southwest corner
of the lake. It was stretched along the west shore for quite a distance, so
we had to count from several overlooks. Allowing for the fact that there
were parts of the raft we could not see, we arrrived at a count of 7,000
redheads. The total raft size was estimated to be 9,000 birds incl. mostly
Canada Geese, with small numbers of other ducks. All our data were given to
Scott Sutcliffe, the count coordinator.
Bill McAneny
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From: "Marie P Read" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:40 PM
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay / Union Springs and waterfowl count
question
At Aurora Bay this morning, unfortunately the Redhead raft was NOT present,
nor could I see any sign of it from Long Pt State Park looking south and
across the lake. At Union Springs, the Factory Street pond hosted several
Redhead and Gadwall pairs, as well as Mallards. The famous Screechie was
soaking up the sun in the entrance of his box.
For you lake-ice-watchers, the ice has retreated to just south of Union
Springs (several miles north of its level last Monday). From Union Springs I
could see hundreds of Tundra Swans roosting on the southernmost ice, way out
in the middle of the lake, possibly closer to the west shore. There were
also scattered Tundra Swans along the east shore of the lake, notably
visible from Lake Road.
I have a question for the those who took part in the recent waterfowl count:
has anyone estimated the size of the Aythya raft? Or was that not in the
count area at the time? The latest number I see is from the Christmas Bird
Count at 940 birds, but that was a while ago and there are more birds now. I
am being asked on Facebook how many that raft contains. (If all else fails I
guess I will have to count them in my photo!)
Marie
Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Freeville NY 13068 USA
Phone 607-539-6608
e-mail [email protected]
http://www.marieread.com
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