At 1400 today, we had a mixed flock of Tundra and Trumpeter Swans close in to 
shore
on Seneca Lake at the bottom of the Rte 79 hill. While separating the swans a 
huge
seabird swam into view and eventually came right offshore. It was a juv. 
Northern
Gannet!! Plumage much as the one we had there two years ago. Earlier today a
Peregrine falcon buzzed that area and landed on the old salt tower at Clute 
Park.
Many ducks in the area and in the canal including three merganser species. Three
Sandhill cranes (two adult one juv) remain in Queen Catharine Marsh as well as 
the
two adult Bald Eagles that successfully nested there this summer (they were on 
the
nest tree). Didn't tarry much beyond that as we manged to run the battery down, 
get
a jump start and head into town for a new battery! Worth it.

J&S
-- 
John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory
5373 Fitzgerald Road
Burdett,NY 14818-9626
N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492'
 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/
"Conserve and Create Habitat"




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