I watched Lake Ontario from in front of the house this morning. There was a great steady flight of BONAPARTE'S GULLS. One LITTLE GULL accompanied them. Also, a good variety of ducks, including 11 SURF SCOTERS and 80 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. New for me this fall were 3 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and one RED-THROATED LOON. Also had a distant Parasitic/Pomarine Jaeger.
My eBird checklist is below. Good birding! Willie Home, Niagara, US-NY Oct 10, 2014 8:00 AM - 12:01 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: I watched the lake from Yolanda's. Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.1 26 species (+5 other taxa) Canada Goose 39 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 15 Northern Pintail 33 Green-winged Teal 2 Greater Scaup 40 Greater/Lesser Scaup 53 Surf Scoter 11 White-winged Scoter 80 Long-tailed Duck 3 Flying east to west. Distant but easily recognizable by strong flight, small compact shape, pale whitish head, and pale rear end behind all dark wings. Red-breasted Merganser 41 duck sp. 46 Red-throated Loon 1 Common Loon 18 Horned Grebe 45 Red-necked Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 59 shorebird sp. 8 A group of seven, perhaps Dunlin, and a single that may have been a phalarope. As usual, they were very distant and I could not confidently stick a name to them. Pomarine/Parasitic Jaeger 1 Appeared to be an adult due to blackish rather than dark brownish plumage, and white belly. This bird was very distant. It chased a gull briefly, providing a slightly better view. Bonaparte's Gull 408 These birds went by in singles, a steady stream throughout the watch and at all distances. Little Gull 1 adult. Ring-billed Gull 66 Herring Gull 32 gull sp. 30 Common Tern 8 2 singles and a group of six that first flew east, then shortly came by again flying west. Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 European Starling 2 Pine Siskin 9 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20187743 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
