Tremendous day around Cayuga Lake. Started at Stewart Park at 8 am. had the
following:
many bufflehead, few hooded merganser, several common merganser, wood duck,
several american widgeon, two dozen or so green-winged teal, many canada geese,
mallards, few black duck, many common goldeneye, ring-billed, herring and great
black-backed gull.
also had song sparrow, carolina wren, brown-headed cowbird, downy woodpecker
among others.
Myer's Point- not much. 2 american pipits on gravel bar.
Long Point State Park - 3 common loons. several common goldeneye and
bufflehead.
Aurora Boathouse- 2 horned grebes, many snow geese and canadas.
Factory Street Pond- no screech owl today. nice pair of gadwall close up. also
bufflehead.
Mud Lock and northeast end of Cayuga Lake- thousands upon thousands of snow
and canada geese,
along with dozens of tundra swans. also many redheads, lessor/greater scaup,
ring-necked ducks,
canvasbacks, bufflehead, common goldeneye,common mergansers, and mallard/black
ducks. had
a belted kingsfisher while watching pair of adult bald eagles at mud lock.
>From East Road at Knox-Marcellis Marsh, saw thousands and thousands of snow
>geese. the fields
all around east road to the savannah muckllands were white with snows. also had
many pintail,
ring-necked ducks, american widgeon, along with canada geese from east road .
At the Savannah Mucklands from the potato building had probably 100 to 200
hundred
thousand snow geese. also heard horned lark singing. there were also waterfowl
mixed in
with the geese including many pintail, ring-necked ducks, mallards, and black
duck. the snows
took off and it was a spectacle. there was also a fair number of tundra swans
in this area.
On the way back along Lower Lake road west side of Cayuga Lake, there was
another very
very large raft of snow geese probably another 100,000 or more.In addition,
there were
hundreds of redheads, lesser/greater scaup, ring-necked ducks, canvasback,
bufflehead,
american widgeon, and gulls. The shear numbers were very impressive.
definitively worth the trip!!
Total species for day was 57. E-bird list for trip below.
All the larger numbers below are very rough estimates....
Snow Goose - Chen caerulescens 250000
Canada Goose - Branta canadensis 25000
Tundra Swan - Cygnus columbianus 150
Wood Duck - Aix sponsa 2
Gadwall - Anas strepera 2
American Wigeon - Anas americana 45
American Black Duck - Anas rubripes 25
Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 100
Northern Pintail - Anas acuta 75
Green-winged Teal - Anas crecca 25
Canvasback - Aythya valisineria 150
Redhead - Aythya americana 3000
Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris 100
Greater Scaup - Aythya marila 1
Greater/Lessor Scaup - many
Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis 100
Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola 30
Common Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula 100
Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus 4
Common Merganser - Mergus merganser 10
Common Loon - Gavia immer 3
Horned Grebe - Podiceps auritus 2
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura 15
Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus 1
Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii 1
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis 6
American Kestrel - Falco sparverius 1
Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus 12
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 200
Herring Gull - Larus argentatus 50
Great Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus 20
Rock Pigeon - Columba livia 50
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 20
Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 2
Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus 1
Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata 7
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 50
Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris 5
Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 6
Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor 3
White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 2
Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus 2
Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis 1
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 25
European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 500
American Pipit - Anthus rubescens 2
Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia 2
White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis 2
Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis 10
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 4
Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus 35
Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula 100
Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater 2
House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 4
House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 1
Dave Nicosia
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