Mid-day at Stewart Park: Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 240 Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) - 1 male, first near the Fall Creek outlet then drifting into the Aythya raft Gadwall (Anas strepera) - 2, a pair far out American Wigeon (Anas americana) 1 male, flying with some Mallards American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) 32 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 720
Two huge Aythya rafts. The raft west of the lighthouse jetty was larger, too far to scope easily for species composition but it was still >90% Redhead. The other Aythya listed below were all in the raft right in front of Stewart, close to shore. Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) 55 Redhead (Aythya americana) 3500 - 1100 in a raft in front of Stewart, 2400 in a raft west of the lighthouse jetty Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) 30 Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) 5 (probably more, I didn't do a thorough job of delineating Scaup numbers) Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) 50 Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) 1 female, close and straight out Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) 20 Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) 6 Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) 1 female, seen once in the Aythya raft Common Loon (Gavia immer) 3 Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 1 American Coot (Fulica americana) - 10 Far to the northeast near some docks Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 2 Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) - 2 in the weedy patch by the dock Good Birding, Nick -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
