Re: [cayugabirds-l] empty lake - Stewart Park Friday observation

2019-01-05 Thread Carol Cedarholm 
I walked down there this afternoon. There were 100 or so Redheads and some
scaup. I walked past someone who saw 400 snow geese take off from around
Stewart park and circle up and away.
Carol Cedarholm


On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 5:32 PM Marie P. Read  wrote:

> On the other hand, on Saturday morning (Jan 5th) as I drove down Rt 13
> around 915 am, I saw a large raft of ducks just off Stewart Park (within a
> hundred yards or so), went to check it out and it seemed to be Aythya but
> mostly sleeping so hard to ID with just binoculars.
>
> Marie
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> Yesterday, Friday, 4 January, around 11:30am, Stewart Park was also
> strangely devoid of birds and wondered if someone came through with dogs?
> There were absolutely no Canada Geese on the lawns, but ample fresh green
> poop everywhere (as usual). I found several dozen hugging the lake
> shoreline from west to east with a few mallards, and I think I saw four
> sandpiper-size/shape birds flush and peep as they flew (not sure, did not
> have my binoculars with me).
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] empty lake - Stewart Park Friday observation

2019-01-05 Thread Ken Haas 
I stopped by Stewart Park yesterday, Jan. 4, at 9:45AM on my way to an 
appointment. Didn’t have my scope but had my 10x bins. I parked at the East end 
of the parking lot - on the gravel part. I estimated about 250 Red Heads about 
30 yards off shore directly in front of me. Mixed in were about a dozen Scaup, 
mostly Lesser would be my guess. 5 Common Mergs scattered about, not 
participating in the Red Head raft. I only stayed 15 minutes or so. But just 
before I left a lone female Buffelhead flew in and landed in the water just in 
front of the pavilion overlook on Rt. 34. I expected fewer birds, but was 
pleasantly surprised to see the variety that I did. 

Ken Haas



> On Jan 5, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Marie P. Read  wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, on Saturday morning (Jan 5th) as I drove down Rt 13 around 
> 915 am, I saw a large raft of ducks just off Stewart Park (within a hundred 
> yards or so), went to check it out and it seemed to be Aythya but mostly 
> sleeping so hard to ID with just binoculars.
> 
> Marie
> 
> Marie Read Wildlife Photography
> 452 Ringwood Road
> Freeville NY  13068 USA
> 
> Phone  607-539-6608
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> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] empty lake - Stewart Park Friday observation
> 
> Yesterday, Friday, 4 January, around 11:30am, Stewart Park was also strangely 
> devoid of birds and wondered if someone came through with dogs? There were 
> absolutely no Canada Geese on the lawns, but ample fresh green poop 
> everywhere (as usual). I found several dozen hugging the lake shoreline from 
> west to east with a few mallards, and I think I saw four sandpiper-size/shape 
> birds flush and peep as they flew (not sure, did not have my binoculars with 
> me).
> 
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] empty lake - Stewart Park Friday observation

2019-01-05 Thread Marie P. Read 
On the other hand, on Saturday morning (Jan 5th) as I drove down Rt 13 around 
915 am, I saw a large raft of ducks just off Stewart Park (within a hundred 
yards or so), went to check it out and it seemed to be Aythya but mostly 
sleeping so hard to ID with just binoculars.

Marie

Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Freeville NY  13068 USA

Phone  607-539-6608
e-mail   m...@cornell.edu
Website: http://www.marieread.com

***NEW BOOK by Marie Read!***
Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing 
Birds and Their Behavior

https://rockynook.com/shop/photography/mastering-bird-photography/?REF=101/

From: bounce-123222486-5851...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-123222486-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Sandy 
[sandra.w...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 11:24 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] empty lake - Stewart Park Friday observation

Yesterday, Friday, 4 January, around 11:30am, Stewart Park was also strangely 
devoid of birds and wondered if someone came through with dogs? There were 
absolutely no Canada Geese on the lawns, but ample fresh green poop everywhere 
(as usual). I found several dozen hugging the lake shoreline from west to east 
with a few mallards, and I think I saw four sandpiper-size/shape birds flush 
and peep as they flew (not sure, did not have my binoculars with me).





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[cayugabirds-l] empty lake - Stewart Park Friday observation

2019-01-05 Thread Sandy 
Yesterday, Friday, 4 January, around 11:30am, Stewart Park was also
strangely devoid of birds and wondered if someone came through with dogs?
There were absolutely no Canada Geese on the lawns, but ample fresh green
poop everywhere (as usual). I found several dozen hugging the lake
shoreline from west to east with a few mallards, and I think I saw four
sandpiper-size/shape birds flush and peep as they flew (not sure, did not
have my binoculars with me).




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Re: [cayugabirds-l] empty lake

2019-01-04 Thread Glenn Wilson 
Similar here in Broome County. A rare few waterfowl are here and there. 

Glenn Wilson
Endicott, NY
www.WilsonsWarbler.com

On Jan 4, 2019, at 8:59 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:

Yesterday, I was on the lake shore here in Lansing and looked up and down for a 
while and saw no waterfowl in any direction.

Donna L. Scott
Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY 


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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 6:32 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Raptors, swans, ducks

Yesterday afternoon (Thursday 3 Jan) Ann Mitchell & I went north toward Fayette 
& Seneca Falls townships looking for raptors with some success: in addition to 
the ubiquitous Red-tailed Hawks we saw an adult Cooper’s Hawk on a pole in 
Covert, a male American Kestrel and a Merlin about a quarter mile apart on 
Seybolt Rd, a female Northern Harrier atop a mound of brush & wood along 
Peterman Rd, and two Snowy Owls, one on Seybolt Rd, another at the Fingerlakes 
Regional Airport, so that was a success. 

On our way back we made the tough choice to check out the lake rather than seek 
Short-eared Owls. The lake was calm and temperatures not extreme, so there was 
very little heat shimmer. We scanned from the boat ramp at Cayuga Lake SP while 
several boats of gunners came in for the day. I’m used to the shallow north end 
of Cayuga Lake being frozen for several miles in winter, but there was no ice 
at all. And when there’s no ice, or as the shelf is melting back in mid-March, 
I’m used to seeing hordes of northbound ducks diving near the ice edge. 
Yesterday the lake appeared eerily empty. In a complete scan I saw 3 pairs of 
Mallards scattered along the west shore along with 1 male Hooded Merganser 
(perhaps his mate eluded me?), a pair of breeding plumage Long-tailed Ducks far 
to the SE which flushed as one of the boats approached them, and another group 
of 9 Long-tailed Ducks already in flight farther south. That was it for ducks. 
There were dozens of Herring Gulls along with a few Great Blacked Gulls on the 
water far to the east, but all of the above birds except one pair of Mallards 
required a scope. 

There were small flocks of Canada Geese coming in overhead from the NW. The 
most interesting find from Cayuga L SP was a probable family group of 5 Mute 
Swans on the lake to the east of the boat ramp. They also took flight between 
when I found them and when Ann looked through my scope. They continued flying 
south out of sight. The Mute Swans I believe are a first for 2019 for the 
Cayuga Lake Basin (the table of 2019 basin firsts has been filled out and 
should be up on the Club website shortly). 

Along Lower Lake Rd we saw a handful of scattered Ring-billed Gulls, and from 
NYS-89 as we drove south we saw small separate groups of American Black Duck 
(11), Common Goldeneye (9), Bufflehead (10?), Red-breasted Merganser(3), and 
American Coot(~35), and Snow (2) and Canada Geese. The diversity aded up after 
awhile, but still the impression was of an empty lake. The only exception was 
the large raft of Snow Geese in the middle of the lake off Poplar Beach Rd by 
the Beer Garden, viewed from NYS-89. We didn’t go down to Sheldrake.  

- - Dave Nutter 




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RE:[cayugabirds-l] empty lake

2019-01-04 Thread Donna Lee Scott 
Yesterday, I was on the lake shore here in Lansing and looked up and down for a 
while and saw no waterfowl in any direction.

Donna L. Scott
Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY 


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From: bounce-123219952-15001...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-123219952-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Nutter
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 6:32 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Raptors, swans, ducks

Yesterday afternoon (Thursday 3 Jan) Ann Mitchell & I went north toward Fayette 
& Seneca Falls townships looking for raptors with some success: in addition to 
the ubiquitous Red-tailed Hawks we saw an adult Cooper’s Hawk on a pole in 
Covert, a male American Kestrel and a Merlin about a quarter mile apart on 
Seybolt Rd, a female Northern Harrier atop a mound of brush & wood along 
Peterman Rd, and two Snowy Owls, one on Seybolt Rd, another at the Fingerlakes 
Regional Airport, so that was a success. 

On our way back we made the tough choice to check out the lake rather than seek 
Short-eared Owls. The lake was calm and temperatures not extreme, so there was 
very little heat shimmer. We scanned from the boat ramp at Cayuga Lake SP while 
several boats of gunners came in for the day. I’m used to the shallow north end 
of Cayuga Lake being frozen for several miles in winter, but there was no ice 
at all. And when there’s no ice, or as the shelf is melting back in mid-March, 
I’m used to seeing hordes of northbound ducks diving near the ice edge. 
Yesterday the lake appeared eerily empty. In a complete scan I saw 3 pairs of 
Mallards scattered along the west shore along with 1 male Hooded Merganser 
(perhaps his mate eluded me?), a pair of breeding plumage Long-tailed Ducks far 
to the SE which flushed as one of the boats approached them, and another group 
of 9 Long-tailed Ducks already in flight farther south. That was it for ducks. 
There were dozens of Herring Gulls along with a few Great Blacked Gulls on the 
water far to the east, but all of the above birds except one pair of Mallards 
required a scope. 

There were small flocks of Canada Geese coming in overhead from the NW. The 
most interesting find from Cayuga L SP was a probable family group of 5 Mute 
Swans on the lake to the east of the boat ramp. They also took flight between 
when I found them and when Ann looked through my scope. They continued flying 
south out of sight. The Mute Swans I believe are a first for 2019 for the 
Cayuga Lake Basin (the table of 2019 basin firsts has been filled out and 
should be up on the Club website shortly). 

Along Lower Lake Rd we saw a handful of scattered Ring-billed Gulls, and from 
NYS-89 as we drove south we saw small separate groups of American Black Duck 
(11), Common Goldeneye (9), Bufflehead (10?), Red-breasted Merganser(3), and 
American Coot(~35), and Snow (2) and Canada Geese. The diversity aded up after 
awhile, but still the impression was of an empty lake. The only exception was 
the large raft of Snow Geese in the middle of the lake off Poplar Beach Rd by 
the Beer Garden, viewed from NYS-89. We didn’t go down to Sheldrake.  

- - Dave Nutter 




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