After Becky got off work & had lunch at 4 p.m. with us, she & I went to Geneva, scarcely daring to hope we'd find the Brant mentioned in a post much earlier in the day.
Before I even got to the park entrance, she spotted them on the grass to the East of the Visitor's Center. She only has a little point & shoot Canon camera but she got some nice pictures. The Brant weren't really skittish so she walked about 30 ft. behind them & "herded" them towards me as I sat in the car. She was thrilled to finally see them. I had held an injured one that John & I took to Cornell some 12 yrs. ago so I knew how beautiful they are. The jaunt yielded us 3 new osprey nests as well, even tho' they're not in the Cayuga basin. We saw Chimney swifts over the Smith's Opera House in Geneva, our 1st for the yr.. At_Mud Lock_ we saw a bald eagle in a tree near the new nest which is still quite visible. The waters of Seneca River & canal are quite high & overflowing the banks from the lock northward. Fritzie Blizzard Union Springs, NY -- 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/ --
