Always fun to see what shows up after I push the submit button on my ebird list: Just now 5 Tundra Swans showed up, they were kind of noisy as they settled in. The immature grayish one was among them—haven't seen it in weeks. Also earlier this afternoon there was a solitary Lesser Black-backed Gull swimming not too far out.
Elaina Location: SW corner Cayuga Lake Observation date: 1/31/11 Notes: Sunny, not too windy. The raft was spread out between 800 and 1000 blocks of Taughannock Blvd. Missed some waterfowl to the north obscured by trees, didn't count anything past the cluster buoy, lots of ambiguous dots out there. An American Wigeon swam to shore with a Mallard and some Redheads to have its picture taken and then left. Absence of Goldfinches today, and the usual 2-3 yard American Crows are spending the day elsewhere. Number of species: 22 Canada Goose 550 American Wigeon 1 Mallard 14 Canvasback 450 Redhead 1850 Ring-necked Duck 11 Greater/Lesser Scaup 12 Bufflehead 6 Common Goldeneye 4 Common Merganser 13 Ring-billed Gull 10 Herring Gull (American) 1 Great Black-backed Gull 2 gull sp. 62 Mourning Dove 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 1 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2 Carolina Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1 House Sparrow 9 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org<http://ebird.org/>) -- 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/ --
