HI Cayugabirders, I thought I would pass on this message I received just now, in case people are wondering where the big Redhead raft might have moved to and in prep for weekend birding adventures.
Enjoy the weekend. Marie ________________________________________ From: Hopkins,Jeffrey A. [hopki...@airproducts.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:35 PM To: Marie P Read Subject: CAYUGABIRDS - Redhead Raft Marie, I saw your post on CAYUGABIRDS about the redheads having moved on, and thought I'd reply (I'm not on the listserve - I'm just visiting Ithaca for the weekend). Feel free to forward this to the list if you'd like. I was birding at Myers Point at 4 PM this afternoon and had a large raft of redheads along the eastern lakeshore south of the point. I don't know if it was the raft you've been seeing, but it was certainly larger than any number of redheads I've ever seen. It certainly was a few thousand. Also there were quite a few ring-necks, mallards, and coots, 20-30 tundra swans, a few scaup (at least one of which I could ID as a greater) and common mergs, along with a lone female shoveler and a distant common loon. And of course Canada geese. The north side of the point had all the gulls and common goldeneye. Good birding, Jeff Hopkins Whitehall, PA ******* Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com -- 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/ --
