Took a trip up and around Cayuga Lake today with my father-in-law and brother-in-law. We also went to the Mucklands. The main goal was to see large numbers of snow geese and the bald eagle nest at Mud Lock. In between snow squalls, we succeeded. Great views of the Bald Eagle pair. One on nest and the other posing in the dead tree to the right of the nest.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157629513869791/with/6807715836/ Also found two large rafts of snow geese on the west side of the lake in between more snow squalls from lower lake road. Photos and short video of the closest raft can be found here http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157629149230304/ In addition, huge aythya raft continues near the Twin Orchards Campground. >From east road there were many northern pintails, also got my FOY NORTHERN SHOVELER. There was a smaller flock of snow geese at the mucklands...many hunters around. This group was probably around 10,000 or so. I also had a couple horned grebes at the Aurora boathouse and one grebe that was too far at the time to tell if it was a horned or eared grebe in my opinion. I have yet to get the eared grebe at this location and have never seen one yet. So I am not familiar with these species. The wind was blowing hard, the waves were choppy, eyes tearing in the wind and it was very cold so I did not spend much time on it. So I snapped a bunch of digi-scoped images...most came out blurry ...but I did manage this one... Is this an eared grebe? http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/6808014060/in/photostream Thanks! Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- 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/ --
