This message didn't seem to go through earlier, so I'm sending it again. Meanwhile I met Jay McGowan at Stewart Park in the late afternoon. He said there was a similar sized flock of swans far off Myers Point this afternoon and a Killdeer at Myers as well. --Dave Nutter
On Tuesday, December 15, 2009, at 11:10AM, "Dave Nutter" <[email protected]> wrote: >I swung briefly into Stewart Park this morning at 0815 and saw a/the adult >BRANT on the ice edge out from the large pavilion. At that time the TUNDRA >SWAN flock was still present along with many CANADA GEESE and MALLARDS, etc. >An hour later as I came down NYS 13 I noticed that the swans were not visible >on the water as they had been previously but there were large birds flying >north over the water. Again I pulled in to Stewart Park, and scoping north up >the lake I could see the flock of ~70 swans flying back and forth and away but >staying within the Cayuga Lake valley. It was 0918 when I lost sight of them. > I don't know what provoked them to leave. Most of the Canada Geese had also >left, but that's a more expected daily commute. If I get a chance I'll have >another look to see if everything else got dispersed. >--Dave Nutter > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
