Interesting that the Green-winged Teal appeared for Anne Marie & Tim today but not for us yesterday. It’s always possible that we simply missed them, although I know that we did scan the overhanging shrubbery at the west side of the pond carefully. So I wonder where they might have gone. The creek that drains the Mill Pond was running free, and there was open water at the lake’s edge where the creek from Factory Pond enters. Those have often been good spots for overwintering teal and shovelers. We need to check them more carefully next time!
Bob On Jan 19, 2015, at 7:36 PM, Anne Marie Johnson <annemariejohn...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > Tim and I made a quick trip around the lake today, checking points north of > where we were yesterday (skipping Myers and Hog Hole). > > On the way north, we found a small group of HORNED LARKS on the farm fields a > block east of 34B in King Ferry south of 90. I forget the name of the road, > but it goes through a big dairy farm. The water was too rough and the > conditions too windy for scoping from the Aurora boathouse. We found two > GADWALL and three GREEN-WINGED TEAL on Factory Road Pond. The teal were > tucked into the shrubbery on the lake end of the pond. There was a large > group of REDHEAD, a few BUFFLEHEAD, and two AMERICAN WIGEON on Mill Spring > Pond. The lake north of Union Springs was completely frozen. > > We looked for the Snowy Owl around the Finger Lakes airport but could not > find it. We did not attempt Dean's Cove because the driveway looked icy. In > Sheldrake, we found lots of BUFFLEHEAD with a few GOLDENEYE mixed in. We > found one pair of RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, and a very nice-looking male > WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. > > Anne Marie Johnson > > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
