In response to Mary W's question...Saturday morning at Stewart Park (8-9 AM) I did indeed see a dead coot near the entrance to the Swan Pen trail. It looked so fresh that I checked to see if was warm (it wasn't) but it was not stiff and I could not see any rips or tears. I had just seen an adult Bald Eagle strafe the waterfowl on the lake and there were maybe half dozen Great Black-backed Gulls scattered about in the water way offshore. I didn't any birds on the jetty.
Besides many Mallards and Canada Geese I saw 4 Tundra swans, 3 adults and a juvenile. One of them was persistently producing a dove-like cooing vocalization accompanying the ducking of its head. The four swans took off up Fall Creek while I was checking out the coot. I also saw a mixed flock of 50 Aythya, 4 spp. present, mostly Redheads, with at least one male of each Scaup, and at least two CANVASBACK. 3 Hooded Mergansers took flight when the eagle made its pass, there were ca. 50 Bufflehead about, 5 Gadwall well offshore, a Kingfisher and Great Blue Heron in the Lagoon, and a Carolina Wren calling near the Swan Pen. I did not hear TIm's WInter Wren. Good birding...Stuart -- 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/ --
