Yesterday morning Scott Haber, Tim Lenz, Nick Sly, and I went around Cayuga Lake. The weather was nice and the birding was decent, but we didn't find too much of note. Highlights included a Nelson's-type Herring Gull on the north spit at Myers Point (possibly the same bird I photographed at the compost last week); 30 Tundra Swans and the usual ducks species, also at Myers Point; a flock of over 100 Horned Larks with at least a dozen Snow Buntings mixed in just south of the Triangle in King Ferry; the EARED GREBE with seven Horned Grebes straight out from the boathouse in Aurora; the Eastern Screech-Owl in the box on Factory Street in Union Springs; and a KILLDEER on the lake shore just south of the ice edge at Bonnie Banks Road on the west side of the lake.
Additionally, here are a few photographs of birds I neglected to post about from the past week or so. A very dark (conceivably of the Pacific race) Merlin at the Triangle in King Ferry on January 30th: https://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Winter20102011#5568449003581479266 A partially leucistic American Crow with an awesome checkered pattern on the Wells College Campus in Aurura, also on the 30th (this and the following four photos): https://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Winter20102011#5568449295938088882 A Red-shouldered Hawk at the bridge on Rt. 13 just east of Lower Creek Road (possibly the same bird that lives at the Lab?) on the 29th: https://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Winter20102011#5568449633299704578 https://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Winter20102011#5568449643856285922 The continuing Hermit Thrush at Monkey Run South on the 31st: https://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Winter20102011#5568449957191882962 And an interesting partially leucistic Common Redpoll that was part of a flock of about 100 that descended on our feeders during the bad weather on February 2nd: https://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Winter20102011#5569589235713474210 https://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Winter20102011#5569589249648375410 Good birding, Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
