Sorry for the somewhat vague directions earlier. The location we were referring to was what we have generally called Mud Lock, called Cayuga Lock in eBird and perhaps elsewhere. Tim and company found the flock on the west shore, opposite River Road on the east side. We parking in the small lot just north of the main parking area to view the eagle nest, then crossed the lock on the small bridge (I didn't know you could do that!) The redpoll flock was working a variety of weeds between two dikes on this side, probably 120-150 birds all together, though the flock size would vary as some birds moved out of sight behind the dikes. One of the birds was a fairly obvious female HOARY, extremely pale (visible even in flight), with very limited streaking on the sides, only a very thin streak on the undertail, and a fluffy white rump. A second female was very likely another Hoary, but not quite as obvious. Dim light and distant birds made for difficult photography, but here is a shot of the more obvious bird: https://picasaweb.google.com/111137855303614931880/Winter20122013?authkey=Gv1sRgCLfOr5y2mYH36QE#5817549408969593586
Andrew Van Norstrand and I had been working up the lake and continued after the redpolls. Generally it was very quiet today with the wind and the rain. The only other real birds of note were several hundred Snow Geese and a single juvenile ROSS'S GOOSE that flew into Knox-Marsellus Marsh while we were scanning the other birds there. On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jay McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Brad tried to post earlier, but he, Tim, and Luke found a HOARY REDPOLL > with 100+ Common Redpolls feeding in the weeds on the other side of the > Cayuga Lock at the north end of the lake. Bird is still present. > > Jay > -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- 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/ --
