Hello all, In addition to the 2 "islands" of thousands of snow geese and thousands of Cananda geese that everyone has seen just south of Cayuga State park, we saw a identified 5 Am Black Ducks and about 40 Hooded Mergansers both male and female. What a fabulous area to watch so many water birds! Therese
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Meena Haribal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was looking at some of the video I took in March this spring and on > March 11 2012, I shot some snow geese landing on the water. I seem to have > followed this group of geese some distance till they almost landed and > among them was snow geese whose many primaries were white. So here is a > link to some of the stills from the video. > > > > https://picasaweb.google.com/111169522173716942833/WhiteWingedSnowGoose# > > > > What I have found interesting is when the geese (both Snow and Canada) > they land among the group, they always seemed to land in the middle of the > flock. One can watch how they decide and the whole group will find spots > near by each other, if there are no spots for all to land, they make an > effort to look for one by circling around. It would be wonderful to watch > from above them to see how they choose those landing spots. > > > > I also have videos as to how they take off from the group. It would be > lovely to put them together to see what characters are utilized to make > decision of flying or landing. > > > > In Bosque del Apache, I took videos of Sandhills taking off in the styles > of athletes " get set (sometimes they stand with their neck stretched for > a long time) go" . What triggered to go was a mystery. > > > > Cheers > > Meena > > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail > Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > -- 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/ --
