Several of us travelled around the lake yesterday, picking up a few new birds for the year.
The TUFTED DUCK was easy to observe (sleeping) after Dave Nutter again spotted it from along Rt 89. Gary Kohlenberg re-found the single Black Scoter in close to the ice edge at Hog Hole. Also present in the SW corner of the lake were several Ring-necked Ducks, Ruddy Ducks, a large number of Common Mergansers, a few Canavsbacks, and a large portion of the huge Redhead flock that is wintering on the lake. >From the boathouse in Aurora we found 9 Horned Grebes but could not locate the >Eared Grebe. The ice edge was just north of Farley’s point and yet, surprisingly, the ponds in Union Springs were nearly empty. We could not locate the Green-winged Teal of the week before. In mid-afternoon we received a call from Stu Krasnoff about a suspicious-looking grebe at Dean’s Cove. It turned out to be a Red-necked Grebe. And present for I-don’t-know-how- many years, the Lesser Black-backed Gull was easily located straight out from the jetty. Bob McGuire -- 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/ --
