I drove up the east side of Cayuga Lake early this morning, expecting to come upon hordes of snow geese at some point. There were none at the north end of the lake, and I made it to East Rd. before I had 2 SNOW GEESE fly over. Nothing in the Mucklands, but at Carncross Rd., I was just in time to see the hinder parts of a flock of about 150 SNOW GEESE heading north. I spent several hours in the North Montezuma WMA and finally a mess of snows came in from the NNW. I estimated about 2000-2500. Returning to the Potato Bldg., I found to the south, and partially hidden by Phragmites, about the same number of snows in a dense mass, mostly sleeping.
With favorable winds, I guess the hordes couldn't wait. Almost nothing on the Lake, but thousands of PINTAILS and hundreds of AMER. WIGEON in the wet fields in the Mucklands. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
