Hi all, Yesterday evening i wanted to try a new (actually an old) lens, so I went out to try on some geese. Myer's point all I could see was a pair of Northern Flickers, that flew away at my approach and nothing much else.
At Long Point State park I saw mostly white caps on the water and a few Black ducks and Mallards. >From the bluffs on Long Point State Park road, a few thousand Canada Geese at >the mouth of the creek in the bay, but I did not pick out anything different. >I skipped Aurora boat club as it was very windy and parking lot was full. At Factory St pond in Union Springs no birds. Main pond had a few Redheads, Gadwalls, Buffleheads. I continued planning to go up to Mucklands to look for Snow Geese. But as I approached Connors Road past Levenna, I saw hundreds of Snow Geese heading east. So I decided to turn on Connors road and follow them. They were flying at 40 mph as I followed them in parallel couple of miles, after some distance I changed my direction as the road turned and twisted. I drove many roads such as Rt 326, Large Road, Bluefield Road, Powers road etc and I could see them still heading mostly east and southeast and at some point they disappeared. I never saw them come down to a field. But then when I looked at the fields, most of the fields were barren or had grass and no corn fields. May be the geese also were looking for a suitable field to feed. So probably they continued to Owasco and Skaneateles lake watershed. The distance they travelled from the Cayuga lake to east was more than 6 miles as crow flies. Last spring I had followed them for more than 11 miles west till I could find them no more. It was awesome to watch hundreds of them fly overhead, making me feel dizzy as if I am watching a fast flowing turbulent river like Alaknanda overhead as they continuously grouped and regrouped while honking. On the way back I came via Rafferty road. The grassland was cleared and lots of machinery parked in the field. I don't think any self respecting Short-eared Owl would want to spend the some time here on the way south. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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/ --
