I did find a male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER in the Salt Point bay yesterday morning. An uncommon species in migration, this is an extremely rare bird in the summer. A couple of photos can be seen in this checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38027854
Poppy, it's extremely unlikely that the female with chicks you're seeing is also a scoter, since they normally breed on the tundra far to the north of us. Perhaps it could be another local species like a Mallard or Common Merganser? This scoter joins a host of other lingering diving ducks on Cayuga, Seneca, and Owasco lakes that include Lesser Scaup, Greater Scaup, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, and Red-breasted Merganser. Taken with the lingering and breeding dabblers at Montezuma (including Eurasian Wigeon), one could see almost the full host of waterfowl right now as at any other time of year! Jay On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Donna Lee Scott <d...@cornell.edu> wrote: > A friend of mine who lives on Cayuga L. just north of Salt Pt. saw what > was probably a WHITE WINGED SCOTER off his dock yesterday. > He ID-d it using his Peterson's guide. > > > Donna Scott > Sent from my iPhone > -- > *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/>!* > -- > -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
