The content has expired. Richard From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:17:01 +0000
This link to the ice article does not seem to work. Donna L. Scott From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurie Roe Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:18 AM To: John and Sue Gregoire Cc: Jay McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/.../Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf This is a nice history of the freezing of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes...13 pages, written by a local historian. I remembered reading it a couple of winters ago when we had significant freezing..Laurie On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, John and Sue Gregoire <[email protected]> wrote: Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some cold winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was the location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the edge point. There was less interest and concern about the southern end. Much the same on Seneca for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom drops to 400 feet quickly. Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies but as you found out, access is tough. John -- 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" On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote: > I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this > morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at > least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse > and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice > extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing > where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not > too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became > mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, > like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days > recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the > lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive > as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was > all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were > squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The > marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds > three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake > (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common > Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and > the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 > on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the > shore east of Ladoga. > > I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the > temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days > and beyond. 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