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" -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
