Hi, Ton and I spent sunny, COLD day Sunday (3/27) birding up the east side and down the west side of Cayuga Lake. There were not many ducks at all on the east side and we had about decided they must have all left and wouldn't be worth going down the west side, but we made one last stop at Cayuga Lake State Park. Contrary to what was found last weekend by me, Susan Danskin and Gary Kohlenberg, the lake was pretty empty to the east and to the north, but then we looked south and the entire middle of the lake was a huge mass of ducks! We headed further south along Rte 89, and were treated to hundreds and hundreds (if not thousands) of ducks feeding, grooming, lounging in the brilliant sunlight. Below is our eBird report. Of note were two immature Trumpeter Swans along Savannah Spring Lake Rd,, lots of Ruddy Ducks at Mays Point, a single Common Loon at Ladoga Park, many N. Pintails, only 4 Snow Geese, and NO Red-winged Blackbirds! We did not stop at the Lab of Ornithology, so missed the birds Dave Nutter and his SFO group enjoyed, but it was a wonderful ducky day! In the following list, X means "alot." Laura and Ton
Laura Stenzler [email protected] ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 6:45 PM To: Laura Stenzler Subject: eBird Report - Cayuga Lake Basin , 3/27/11 Location: Cayuga Lake Basin Observation date: 3/27/11 Number of species: 51 Snow Goose 4 mucklands - only these 4! Canada Goose X Trumpeter Swan 2 Immatures, on pond along Savannah Spring Lake Rd, grey backs Wood Duck 3 Gadwall X American Wigeon X American Black Duck X Mallard X Northern Shoveler X Northern Pintail X Green-winged Teal (American) X Canvasback X Redhead X Ring-necked Duck X Greater Scaup X Lesser Scaup X Bufflehead X Common Goldeneye X Only one group found just north of Sheldrake. Hooded Merganser X Common Merganser X Red-breasted Merganser 2 Off Cayuga Lake State Park Ruddy Duck X May's Point Pool, various other places Wild Turkey X Common Loon 1 Ladoga Park Horned Grebe 14 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 10 Osprey 1 Bald Eagle 5 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk X American Kestrel 1 American Coot X Killdeer X Ring-billed Gull X Herring Gull X Rock Pigeon X Blue Jay X American Crow X Horned Lark 20 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 American Robin X European Starling X Song Sparrow X Dark-eyed Junco X Northern Cardinal 2 Common Grackle X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
