About 2:30 this afternoon, I paid a visit to Stewart Park. A fellow from near Canandaigua (Dave Morris?) said he had not seen the eider. I was setting up my scope and he yelled to me from the boat house that the eider was back in the unfrozen part of the creek. We viewed it from the path NW of the boat house for about 5 minutes, when the bird suddenly took flight and headed due north out of the creek and past the red lighthouse. We did not see it after that. Myers is a possibility for tomorrow.
Also at Stewart, a Sharpshinned Hawk surveying the newly paved trail. Circling over upper Sandbank Road about 2pm, a Turkey Vulture. Bill McAneny, Trumansburg -- 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/ --
