Yesterday morning Ann Mitchell & I took advantage of near-perfect viewing conditions on Cayuga Lake: There was no wind, and the air temperature matched the water temperature. We sought the elusive Eared Grebe and re recalcitrant Ross's Goose. Both quests were a bust, even though at Long Point we saw 40 COMMON LOONS and a dozen HORNED GREBES, and from the Wells College boathouse I counted 59 Horned Grebes in all kinds of cute and crazy plumages. There were a relatively few hundreds of SNOW GEESE on the mucklands on NYS-31 between NYS-89 and the Village of Montezuma along with a some TUNDRA SWANS and various dabblers. Our consolation prizes included hearing a SAVANNAH SPARROW and seeing an EASTERN MEADOWLARK along the Lake Road fields below the Long Point Winery, me finding a EURASIAN WIGEON through a random gap between houses along NYS-90 north of the Village of Cayuga, and us getting excellent close looks at BLUE=WINGED TEAL in the weeds at the south end of the Visitor Center pond at Montezuma NWR, plus all the usual Anas & Aythya ducks, as well and lots of other stuff.
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