From: Meena Haribal Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 6:31 PM To: Dave Nutter Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] RFI: last sighting of KING EIDER, Stewart Park, 5 Dec and other birds
Hi Dave and others, My sighting was not the latest, but when we were watching he moved out to main lake. I videoed him going past Red-lighthouse jetty. Later, I went to East Shore Park to see he would be visible from there but in fact he was not. It was very choppy so could have missed him among the waves easily. When I went to Stewart Park Cascadilla Boat House at about 13.49 hr, he was swimming somewhere nearby. So without getting out of the car, I took a shot through my window glass. When he dived I got out of the car positioned myself behind the car. When he dived next time again, I ran to take cover of port-a-potty hoping not to disturb him. But when I looked ahead of me, three people were watching him from much closer distance right out in the open! So he was not afraid of humans! I did get a short video clip and a few photos. When I was closest to him, he started heading out of the creek and we watched him go past Red-lighthouse. I also further proceeded to go up to Center Road to look for field birds. Center Road was devoid of any kinds of bird. Then I decided head up to Rafferty. Here I found 7 HORNED LARKS and two Red-tails. On the way back I found 5 more Red-tails at various locations. Here is a link to photos of Eider, not so very spectacular. http://www.flickr.com/photos/91426...@n00/5236223730/in/photostream/ And a 1.20 minute clip of video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvjYJiDJqU&feature=player_embedded Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Nutter [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 5:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cayugabirds-l] RFI: last sighting of KING EIDER, Stewart Park, 5 Dec At least 12 people came to Stewart Park's Cascadilla Boathouse while I was there today and had excellent looks at the male KING EIDER in nearly full breeding plumage. I understand that a number of other people showed up later and also had similar great looks at it. Stuart Krasnoff told me that he last saw it around 3:45 and it had moved out of Fall Creek into Cayuga Lake away from both the shore and the various jetties but still in view from Stewart Park. However Jerry Lazarczyk arrived around 4:30 knowing that info and missed it. If anyone has more details on when and where the King Eider was last seen today, please email me or post to the list. Thanks! --Dave Nutter On Dec 05, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Dave Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: The KING EIDER was still there when I left at 12:45pm. Great close views of a spectacular bird. No scope needed. The feather shapes on the back and wings are incredible, as are the complex patterns on the head. I hope it stays long enough for everyone to have a look. It was close to the Cascadilla Boathouse in Fall Creek diving for crayfish, preening, and swimming mostly by itself but sometimes with Mallards or a Common Merganser. Also BUFFLEHEADS, COMMON GOLDENEYES, and GADWALL on the lake and COMMON and HOODED MERGANSERS on Cayuga Inlet. --Dave Nutter On Dec 05, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Tim Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I've posted some pictures of the King Eider on my flickr page at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seabamirum/5234629367/#/photos/seabamirum/5234629367/lightbox/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/seabamirum/5234629367/#/photos/seabamirum/5235243158/lightbox/ It was truly odd to see this bird of cold arctic oceans with our familiar Mallards and Domestic Ducks at Stewart Park. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Dave Nutter <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Tim Lenz just reported the KING EIDER at the mouth of Fall Creek near the Swan Pond at Stewart Park, 10am Sunday 5 December. --Dave Nutter -- Tim Lenz [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web Applications Developer Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- 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/ --
