Hi Alicia and all,
On Sunday, I was along Rt 89 in the afternoon around 3.00 pm, when I saw several huge flocks of snow geese crossing each other, one head heading north east and the other heading south east at the junction of 89 and County road 139 Road. So I turned left at the junction thinking they might be somewhere nearby, but they seemed to go beyond woods. So I decided follow the ones heading northeast. I followed them for ten+ miles (based on my odometer) on 89 and they were headed to that group of snow geese, which seem to hang out in the middle of lake near Aurora and Dean's Cove area. here is a map of there locations. http://g.co/maps/3nxvt So I walked down to lake from Whitlock Preserve hoping to be somewhat nearer. I was a quarter mile closer but they were still far off. While I was there I saw many more landing, all coming from south and landing right in the middle of the flock facing north direction. It was wonderful to watch them. And even from that distance, I could hear their raucous. So now I know at least they are heading past Wycoff Road. Would be fun to find their feeding location. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: bounce-40593055-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-40593055-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Alicia Plotkin [t...@zoom-dsl.com] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:48 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] snow geese movement Same thing happening between Cayuga & Seneca Lakes: at 5:00 PM today, tens of thousands of Snow Geese coming out of the north and flying SSE over Rock River & Wycoff Roads in Ovid, in steady streams with hardly a break between flocks. I could only stay about 10 minutes, so have no idea how long the river of flocks continued. They were flying pretty much parallel to Cayuga Lake, hard to say just where they were headed. Alicia Plotkin Ovid On 2/20/2012 8:25 PM, Eben McLane wrote: Owasco Lake 4:30 PM Monday: enormous flight of several thousand snow geese flying SW, low in the sky (heading where? to the fields before overnight stop on Cayuga Lake?); 8 PM : many, many more (by the sound of it) on central Owasco Lake. Eben McLane Scipio, NY -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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: 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
