A bit of birding along the lower east side of Cayuga Lake with Brad Walker and Jacob Drucker this morning didn't produce anything too incredible, but a few highlights, and lots of year birds for me. An adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was on the ice at Stewart Park, and a RED-NECKED GREBE was still out on the lake. The shrike on Cayuga Vista wasn't visible on our first pass, but on the way back it was sitting in the weeds at the corner before flying up onto the wire over the road. Myers was pretty quiet, highlighted by two AMERICAN PIPITS on the sandbar off Salt Point and a flock of 60+ CANVASBACK flying high down the lake. On Burdick HIll Road we found dozens of Red-tailed Hawks and another NORTHERN SHRIKE distant to the north. Some feeders at Drake Road had 18+ Common Redpolls and a Northern Flicker nearby.
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