Location: Stewart Park Observation date: 3/11/10 Notes: A very nice morning at Stewart Park with a good selection of waterfowl, 3 Iceland Gulls and 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Attempted to make exact counts of all waterfowl--there was still quite a bit of turnover while we were there. WEATHER: 44F. Calm. Water almost glass-like. Excellent visibility. A few high clouds (30%). OBSERVERS: Chris Wood, Jessie Barry, Andrew Farnsworth, Marshall Iliff. Andrew focused on scanning the sky for birds flying over, resulting in the good counts of robins and blackbirds. The rest of us focused on the lake. Number of species: 41
Canada Goose - 384 Snow Goose - 1 Wood Duck - 7 American Wigeon - 20 American Black Duck - 38 Mallard - 455 Northern Pintail - 1 Green-winged Teal (American) - 32 Redhead - 2 Ring-necked Duck - 64 Greater/Lesser Scaup - 2 Bufflehead - 22 Common Goldeneye - 14 Hooded Merganser - 15 Common Merganser - 7 Great Blue Heron - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Killdeer - 3 Flyovers. Ring-billed Gull - 70 Estimate by 5s. Herring Gull (American) - 390 Estimate by 10s. Iceland Gull (Kumlien's) - 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 One adult and one second cycle bird on the ice. Great Black-backed Gull - 89 Exact count Rock Pigeon - 5 Mourning Dove - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) - 3 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow - 54 Black-capped Chickadee - 2 Carolina Wren - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 2 Flyovers. American Robin - 120 All but a couple flyovers. European Starling - 110 Mostly flyovers. Cedar Waxwing - 5 Flyovers. Song Sparrow - 1 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) - 1 Northern Cardinal - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 395 Flyovers. Common Grackle - 970 Flyovers. Brown-headed Cowbird - 2 Flyovers. House Finch - 6 House Sparrow - 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- 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/ --
