This morning I hit a couple local spots, with a few notable birds. Stevenson Road compost - Iceland Gull Sapsucker Woods, Wilson Trail N - Cedar Waxwing, House Finch, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, Sharp-shinned Hawk, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (called several times from high in the trees, never seen), Pileated Woodpeckers Hanshaw Road near Etna Road - Northern Flicker
Then I met up with Tom Johnson around midday and we headed up the east side of the lake. Highlights: Myers Point - 11 Gadwall Aurora Bay - 4 Horned Grebes Union Springs - Eastern Screech-Owl, Gadwall Harris Park, Cayuga - 7 MUTE SWANS Mud Lock/North of Railroad Bridge - hundreds of Tundra Swans, Redhead, Canvasback, Ring-necked Duck Savannah Mucklands - 1000+ gulls towards the east of the mucklands; lots of interesting looking Herring Gulls, but nothing out of the ordinary that we could find; several hundred Canada Geese with one presumed CANADA x SNOW HYBRID (overall similar to Blue Goose: white head and neck, more uniformly dark body than Snow; bill darker than Snow; in flight with a white V rump like Canada); SAVANNAH SPARROW calling with American Tree Sparrows in the ditch along the highway. Ice edge, south end of Cayuga Lake State Park road - Great Blue Heron, Tundra Swans, 2 Snow Geese, white domestic goose, no other geese or gulls of note Varick - Belted Kingfisher Sheldrake - 20+ Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Hooded Mergansers At Stewart Park around 4:00, the same dark Iceland Gull was on the ice with the other gulls, a flock of 17 Canvasback flew by, and lots of geese on the ice, though we couldn't find anything of note amongst them. 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/ --