I will be leading a trip tomorrow (1/14) to Lake Ontario. Meet at the
Children’s Garden - Cass Park at 8:00 for carpooling. We will be home by the
end of the afternoon. It is going to be cold, with a strong wind out of the SW
(which means offshore at the lake - at least not in our faces). The pr
During my weekly crow census at the Cornell compost facility on Stevenson Road
today I had a 1st cycle Thayer's-type Iceland Gull. Photos are in my checklist
at https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S158795916.
There was not much action at the compost today, with fewer than 100 gulls, and
only a
Normally, I would go regardless of the weather. But in light of the forecast
low temperature and strong WSW winds tomorrow - and the possibility of
significant lake-effect snow, I am going to reluctantly cancel the trip - and
look to reschedule a Lake Ontario trip for late January. Stay tuned.
This morning (13 Jan) I was on Blackchin Blvd, a sidestreet off East Shore
Drive above the Bolton Point water intake, when I saw an adult Bald Eagle
flying over with what at first looked like a really long, ragged, wedge-shaped
tail, which momentarily raised my Adrenalin level. Binoculars reveal
This afternoon (13 Jan) I found a gorgeous breeding plumage male Wood Duck,
apparently the first reported this year in the Cayuga Lake Basin. It was at Mud
Lock, which is the outlet of Cayuga Lake, which is a short distance southwest
of where NYS-90 crosses US-5 & NYS-20 by the Circle K gas & co
