The Redhead raft that was at the SW corner of Cayuga has gone mostly missing, but a friend who lives just south of Taughannock park said they were on the west shore serveral days ago. I'll post if they return to the Hog Hole area. Today there were mostly Canada Geese and gull species, and a clump of Mallards. Elaina
On 2/4/11 6:00 PM, "Marie P Read" <[email protected]> wrote: >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. [[email protected]] >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 [email protected] > >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/[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/ > >-- > -- 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/ --
