Try this link. Terrific history. John http://www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf
-- 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 Wed, February 18, 2015 10:17, Donna Lee Scott wrote: > 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<http://www.co>.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/.../<http://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]<mailto:[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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