I, too, checked a few places for geese this evening. W. Loop Road, north of Route 31 and west of Port Byron, had hundreds or more Canada Geese and ducks, easily visible from the overlook, but good light would be in the morning, as you are looking west.
Morgan Road was frozen--no birds, but along Carncross Rd. there were lots of Canada Geese and some ducks, including Northern Pintail. At the end of Van Dyn Spoor Rd. there were many Canada Geese and ducks and a few Snow Geese. No Snow Geese at East Road, but a few Canadas and ducks--still not nearly as busy as it often is. When I reached Cayuga Lake around 5 pm, the huge flocks of Snow Geese were north of the Railroad Trestle, and could be seen in the distance from Route 89 north of Cayuga Lake State Park. At the southern end of Cayuga Lake State Park, where Lake Rd. joins 89, the huge flock of mixed ducks and Canada Geese that Laura saw was still present. Because there is ice near shore, they are still fairly far out in the lake. Just south of there along Route 89 were some small groups of Tundra Swans a bit closer to shore. Hopefully as the ice continues to melt we will have closer views of all these birds! Sandy Podulka At 07:18 PM 3/10/2021, you wrote: >Today (Wednesday), after spending the morning on our south facing >deck watching loads of Canada and snow geese fly over, Ton and I >drove around Cayuga lake. On the northwest side, at the south end of >the ice (which is south of Cayuga Lake State Park, where Lake Rd. >rejoins 89) we found two huge flocks of snow geese in the water and >on the ice, as well as a really big mixed raft of ducks. Mostly >redheads, but also lots of scaup and smaller numbers of black ducks, >ring-necked ducks, wigeon, gadwall, pintails, canvasbacks, hooded >mergansers, red-breasted mergansers, bufflehead, mallards, swans, >black-backed gulls, a bald eagle (which got the snow geese up into >the air)......it was really amazing! We could pull off on Lake Road >just before it rejoins 89 and had great views - with and without a >scope. They will probably be there tomorrow as well. Highly recommended! >Laura > >Laura Stenzler >l...@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/ --
