After the wind died down & came from the south last night, I figured most of the snows would have headed on north but at 3:45 p.m. I was astounded to see the thousands of snows flying eastward from the lake, great nos. right over the house & as far as I could see in all directions. At 4 p.m. even greater nos. came. At 4:15 p.m., more came followed by the Canadas.
Then at 7 p.m. John came & told me to look. The geese were coming back to the lake, wave after wave after wave, as far as we could see. I didn't think to time how long it took for the sky to clear. This is our 22nd winter here. We've seen tremendous nos. of Canadas over the yrs. but the nos. of snows tonight surpassed them. I can't begin to think how many we saw today but surely others would put the nos. at 100,000 & perhaps even higher. It was truly unbelievable, esp. to think this is just one lake for the migrating flocks. The snows in the pictures I saw posted on Facebook of a "take-off" at Canandaigua Lake looked like a white wall that just went on & on. Fritzie, Union Springs -- 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/ --
