[cayugabirds-l] Ducks in large rafts of thousands at south end of Cayuga lake

[Maureen Cowen]

Are these redheads?

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Ducks and blue-headed vireo at Hog Hole

[Laura Stenzler]

A few new count week birds for the Ithaca Audubon Christmas count, I guess!
Laura

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Hi everyone,

 The conditions are really nice on the lake today with calm water, little wind, 
and warm sun to view a number of different species of ducks. From Hog Hole a 
large Aythya raft is viewable (bring your scope), with many hundred redhead, 
greater and lesser scaup, ring-necked ducks, common and hooded mergansers, 
coots, mallards, black duck, bufflehead, two pintail drakes, and one 
canvasback.  There's also a continuing blue-headed vireo that was quite out in 
the open in the boxelders on the west edge of the Hog Hole woods seen along the 
path ( 42.6098, -76.5187). All in all, it makes for rather nice birding.

 Cheers,

 Kevin


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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks and blue-headed vireo at Hog Hole

[Kevin C Packard]

Hi everyone,

 The conditions are really nice on the lake today with calm water, little wind, 
and warm sun to view a number of different species of ducks. From Hog Hole a 
large Aythya raft is viewable (bring your scope), with many hundred redhead, 
greater and lesser scaup, ring-necked ducks, common and hooded mergansers, 
coots, mallards, black duck, bufflehead, two pintail drakes, and one 
canvasback.  There's also a continuing blue-headed vireo that was quite out in 
the open in the boxelders on the west edge of the Hog Hole woods seen along the 
path ( 42.6098, -76.5187). All in all, it makes for rather nice birding.

 Cheers,

 Kevin


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364 Ives Hall East
Department of Social Statistics, ILR School
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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks off Stewart Park, including Eurasian Wigeon

[Paul Anderson]

There's a very nice selection of ducks visible from Stewart Park this
morning, and viewing is good if you can bear the stiff north wind. The list
includes the Eurasian Wigeon, and also American Wigeon, Pintail,
Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Common Merganser, Hooded
Merganser, Mallard, Black Duck, Green-winged Teal, Redhead, Pintail,
Gadwall.

Also seen or heard there or in Remington Woods: Killdeer, Red-winged
Blackbird, Red-tailed Hawk, Song Sparrow, Carolina Wren.

And of course the usual suspects: all three Gulls, Chickadees, Robins,
Geese, Crows.

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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks from east shore park

[Laura Stenzler]

Hi all, there is a very large mixed raft of ducks very beautifully visible from 
East shore park this morning. No wind lots of light, and many varieties. Come 
on down!
   Redheads, canvasbacks,lots of hooded merganser‘s, lots of common 
merganser‘s, Bufflehead, ringneck ducks, and more.

Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks/owl

[Donna Lee Scott]

On this sunny day that promises to warm up, I see a dozen or so Goldeneyes 
cavorting on the lake, as I finish breakfast! Fun to watch the males tossing 
back their heads.
   Meanwhile, under the lakeside feeders - again a pair of mallards eating 
birdseed.

And I neglected to post Sat. that I found a gray Screech Owl snoozing in same 
tree hole down my road where I had found the red Screech Owl on Feb. 8 & 10.
Their photos are in eBird.

Donna Scott
Lansing
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[cayugabirds-l] ducks

[Susan Gateley]

many ducks nice variety on open water at nw corner of Little Sodus Bay
afternoon of Feb 25 goldeneye, white winged scoter redheads pintail, a few
long tail lots of common mergansers, some courting behavior  - very
colorful selection

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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks at Dryden Lake

[Kevin C Packard]

I took a short walk over at Dryden Lake, and found an interesting collection of 
ducks on an otherwise cold December day. There were 6 American wigeon, together 
with buffleheads, common and hooded mergansers, and a collection of mallards. 
Wigeon haven't been reported in eBird at Dryden Lake since late March, so if 
you are passing through (and especially if you have a scope), feel free to 
check them out.

Kevin

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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks & trains

[Donna Lee Scott]

I was just about to head down to the lake cliff/shore by my house to see if 
there were any other kinds of ducks or fowl in with a bunch of redheads and 
ringnecks, when the train pulling big noisy empty coal cars from power plant 
came tooting down the track!
Then it parked in front so I cannot cross RR.
Later...

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Lansing
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks by Salt Point

[Poppy Singer]

That's where we are. But the female and ducklings that I see are not black.

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:56 PM Donna Lee Scott  wrote:

> Probably WHITE WINGED SCOTER.
> Robert R just saw female for second time north of Salt Point.
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> Donna Scott
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> On Jul 9, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Poppy Singer 
> wrote:
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> He's a diving duck
>
> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:29 PM Poppy Singer 
> wrote:
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>> I'm at salt point on boat. There is a male black headed duck with white
>> around the eye and white on the wing and orange beak and his mate and
>> ducklings. Merlin shows no such duck. Anyone know what this is?
>> Poppy
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks by Salt Point

[Donna Lee Scott]

Probably WHITE WINGED SCOTER.
Robert R just saw female for second time north of Salt Point.

Donna Scott
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On Jul 9, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Poppy Singer 
> wrote:

He's a diving duck

On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:29 PM Poppy Singer 
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I'm at salt point on boat. There is a male black headed duck with white around 
the eye and white on the wing and orange beak and his mate and ducklings. 
Merlin shows no such duck. Anyone know what this is?
Poppy
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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks

[bob mcguire]

Lots of ducks (and geese) on the move today. I spent a half hour at Myers this 
morning. Salmon Creek is high, with thick, chocolaty water. Killdeer calling in 
the background and a small number of gulls still around. But mainly I noticed 
ducks flying up the lake. One group of 5 BLACK SCOTERS. Several groups of 
BUFFLEHEADS. One group of 6 NORTHERN PINTAIL. A “V” of Snow Geese, and multiple 
flocks of Canadas.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks

[Jay McGowan]

>From the white lighthouse this morning, Livia and I were able to refind the
REDHEAD x RING-NECKED DUCK hybrid Dave picked out yesterday. I scoped from
89 at lunch time and was able to manage some distant pictures, viewable
here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S26913925
Like the bird or birds around last winter, this one shows a grayish back
and sides with a darker back than the Redhead, a reddish-purple head, the
ghost of a pale shoulder spur, and an obvious white ring on the bill.

The BROWN THRASHER was still present near the north end of Jetty Woods. No
photos today, but my shots from yesterday are here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S26892457

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:

> This  afternoon I got off work early enough to bike to Treman State Marine
> Park then walk to the lakeshore to scope the raft of ducks before the light
> faded. Yesterday from the white lighthouse Jay McGowan had estimated 6k
> Redheads on his eBird report. I wondered if that included an extra zero.
> Today from Treman I got a better view and sense of the group, and I agree
> with his number. Bob McGuire asked where the Aythya are. Some are certainly
> here. The flock was just late to form. Typically this is a Christmas-time
> treat, but the weather was so warm that the ducks simply stayed at
> Montezuma NWR’s ponds. Finally they got frozen out and now they are
> grouping at the shallow south end of Cayuga Lake.
>
> I love to watch these hordes of ducks. It makes me giddy to scan through
> this seething mass of enthusiastic life. The iridescent green Mallard heads
> flash among the more numerous Redheads. It’s a challenge to identify all
> the ducks - males and females of at least nine different species in this
> flock along with several non-duck species as they sleep, preen, bathe, dive
> and pop up in waves, and move in crowded swirling rivers with their heads
> stretched high as if wondering where they are going. This is such a gift.
>
> In order of abundance I saw in this raft
>
> Redhead - several thousand, but the blonde bird of the past couple years
> was not among them
> Mallard - several hundred, again no cream-colored yet
> Lesser Scaup - about a hundred
> American Black Duck - a dozen or more
> Gadwall - half a dozen, but some were outside the raft
> Pied-billed Grebe - 5
> Canvasback - 2M,2F
> Ring-necked Duck - 3M,1F (I didn’t refind my supposed hybrid for certain,
> although I did follow one suspicious head for awhile)
> American Coot - 4
> Greater Scaup - 2M
> American Wigeon - 1 pair, a bit off to the side
> Herring Gull - 1
> Ring-billed Gull - 1
>
> The birds are so concentrated here. I wonder how much area their breeding
> territories add up to, and where they all came from.
>
> Scattered near the ice farther east were a few pairs and trios of Hooded
> Mergansers and a congregation of Common Mergansers. Canada Geese rested on
> the ice in the distance, as did Great Black-backed, Herring, and
> Ring-billed Gulls.
>
> Earlier in the day from East Shore Park I saw the White-winged Scoter trio
> to the NW. Farther north were 5 male and 1 female Common Goldeney, and near
> the cottage docks 4 Ruddy Ducks floated together with their tails held high.
>
> I did not refind the Northern Shoveler, nor have I yet seen any Great Blue
> Herons (both were reported nearby on the ice today). Plus one of these days
> the Tufted Duck is gonna reappear. Or a sleeping Eared Grebe. Or a Black
> Scoter.  Or I could just watch Mallards and Redheads more. I have many
> excuses to return.
>
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[cayugabirds-l] Ducks, Grebes

[Donna Scott]

16 BLACK DUCKS 1 GREAT BLUE HERON,  2 HORNED GREBES off shore, east side 
Cayuga Lake, lansing Station Rd. Lansing. 

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[cayugabirds-l] ducks leaving south end of Cayuga Lake

[nutter.dave]

On Tuesday afternoon (5 March 2013) there was still a flock of hundreds of REDHEADS near the docks by the southwest corner of Cayuga Lake. Mixed in were a few RING-NECKD DUCKS and LESSER SCAUP, 4 GREATER SCAUP, 1 CANVASBACK, and at least 20 RUDDY DUCKS. Out in the lake were 11 HOODED MERGANSERS (mostly far to the north), and tight group of 4 HORNED GREBES, 2 female RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, and a smattering of COMMON GOLDENEYE. Along the shore of Treman Park were 3 NORTHERN PINTAIL. Near Stewart Park's ice edge was a single LONG-TAILED DUCK.As of late Thursday afternoon (7 March 2013), all of the above were gone (zero Aythya) except for 23 RUDDY DUCKS and 3 COMMON GOLDENEYE. There were still 24 COMMON MERGANSERS out in the lake, and a flock of 20 AMERICAN WIGEON still foraged at the mouth of the Hog Hole. Of course there were still MALLARDS along the shore of the parks with at least 7 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, a few CANADA GEESE, and on the Stewart Park ice shelf hundreds of HERRING, RING-BILLED, and (especially on the red lighthouse breakwater) GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS. A pair of BUFFLEHEADS foraged in Cayuga Inlet and a pair of HOODED MERGANSERS flew south along Cass Park. It's possible some of that exodus was due to the presence of an adult BALD EAGLE in the Hog Hole area, and it's possible that I wasn't able to see as much on the lake in Thursday's rougher water, but I suspect all those birds joined the recent movement toward the north end of the lake and the mucklands.Saturday will still have north winds, and I hope to get north to check it out, but Sunday the winds will turn south again, and maybe the Snow Geese at least will leave.--Dave Nutter
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks ousted

[Elaina McCartney]

Yesterday afternoon in front of my house just north of Hog Hole, all 
that was left of the thousands of waterfowl that have gathered every 
day were 43 American Coots, apparently not minding the gunfire. 
There had been regular Tundra Swans (about 20) and Redheads (more 
than 1500), a scattering of Canvasbacks, Ring-necked Ducks, American 
Black Ducks, Scaup, and many Canadas.  I look forward to their return 
after hunting season, and after the CBC.  I miss them.  I didn't 
report the vast numbers to the list because hunters read the postings.


Elaina


At 8:48 PM -0800 12/27/09, Dave Nutter wrote:
A late-morning / early-afternoon walk revealed that the southwest 
part of Cayuga Lake pretty well had the birds cleared out of it. 
The only Aythya I saw there were a couple of male Redhead carcasses 
held by one of half a dozen gunners in camo who had set up with a 
couple of grounded boats and a lawn chair in water a few inches deep 
along the shore of Treman Marine Park, while their dogs sat beside 
them on the beach.   For live birds on the lake (greatly outnumbered 
by plastic) there were 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 3 MALLARDS, a tight 
flock of AMERICAN COOTS, 6 COMMON LOONS in the distance (including a 
close group of 4 to the northeast), 1 HORNED GREBE in the distance 
to the northwest, and in the inlet 1 male REDHEAD listing heavily, 2 
female LESSER SCAUP (1 with a disheveled wing), and 6 female 
BUFFLEHEAD.  When the gunners packed up and left for the East Shore 
Marina, even before the sound, smell, and wake of their boats 
subsided, a flock of 1 male and 6 female HOODED MERGANSER flew from 
that direction to the southwest corner of the lake.  At Stewart Park 
the ice was crowded with CANADA GEESE (including the domestic 
hybrid), MALLARDS, AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, a couple of COMMON 
MERGANSERS, and plenty of HERRING, RING-BILLED, and GREAT 
BLACK-BACKED GULLS.  Off the ice off Stewart Park I saw 1 male and 2 
female COMMON GOLDENEYE.  The lake looked empty compared to the 
hundreds of ducks, geese, and swans that were on it a couple days 
ago, and I am sad despite the beautiful day.  I look forward to the 
return of the survivors when it it safe. 

Other birds included 2 separate NORTHERN FLICKERS, an EASTERN 
BLUEBIRD, 5 AMERICAN ROBINS foraging together on some lawn, 2 
separate NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS, 3 separate singing CAROLINA WRENS, 
at least 5 AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS in a flock near the mouth of the 
inlet, a couple of WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, a SONG SPARROW, lots of 
AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES, among other expected birds.  Twice I heard but 
did not see a RED-TAILED HAWK, but once I suspected BLUE JAYS were 
to blame.


--Dave Nutter

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[cayugabirds-l] ducks ousted

[Dave Nutter]

A late-morning / early-afternoon walk revealed that the southwest part of 
Cayuga Lake pretty well had the birds cleared out of it.  The only Aythya I saw 
there were a couple of male Redhead carcasses held by one of half a dozen 
gunners in camo who had set up with a couple of grounded boats and a lawn chair 
in water a few inches deep along the shore of Treman Marine Park, while their 
dogs sat beside them on the beach.   For live birds on the lake (greatly 
outnumbered by plastic) there were 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 3 MALLARDS, a tight 
flock of AMERICAN COOTS, 6 COMMON LOONS in the distance (including a close 
group of 4 to the northeast), 1 HORNED GREBE in the distance to the northwest, 
and in the inlet 1 male REDHEAD listing heavily, 2 female LESSER SCAUP (1 with 
a disheveled wing), and 6 female BUFFLEHEAD.  When the gunners packed up and 
left for the East Shore Marina, even before the sound, smell, and wake of their 
boats subsided, a flock of 1 male and 6 female HOODED MERGANSER flew from that 
direction to the southwest corner of the lake.  At Stewart Park the ice was 
crowded with CANADA GEESE (including the domestic hybrid), MALLARDS, AMERICAN 
BLACK DUCKS, a couple of COMMON MERGANSERS, and plenty of HERRING, RING-BILLED, 
and GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS.  Off the ice off Stewart Park I saw 1 male and 2 
female COMMON GOLDENEYE.  The lake looked empty compared to the hundreds of 
ducks, geese, and swans that were on it a couple days ago, and I am sad despite 
the beautiful day.  I look forward to the return of the survivors when it it 
safe.  

Other birds included 2 separate NORTHERN FLICKERS, an EASTERN BLUEBIRD, 5 
AMERICAN ROBINS foraging together on some lawn, 2 separate NORTHERN 
MOCKINGBIRDS, 3 separate singing CAROLINA WRENS, at least 5 AMERICAN TREE 
SPARROWS in a flock near the mouth of the inlet, a couple of WHITE-THROATED 
SPARROWS, a SONG SPARROW, lots of AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES, among other expected 
birds.  Twice I heard but did not see a RED-TAILED HAWK, but once I suspected 
BLUE JAYS were to blame.

--Dave Nutter

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