Just go to Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
It is the first result. Robbie LaCelle Camden, NY On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:20 AM, RICHARD WOOD <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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