A morning vigil at Myers Point did not turn up any terns or shorebirds, but every day brings something different. Today it was an alternate-plumaged HORNED GREBE on the lake just north of the point. Last night, a white adult SNOW GOOSE was sitting on the sandbar in the creek. Both last night and this morning, a female Common Merganser was herding her 17 ducklings around in the creek.
At Stewart Park a little later, a late male BUFFLEHEAD was swimming over near the west shore, and a female WOOD DUCK with seven ducklings was along the creek across from the boathouse. In the trees over the creek at Jetty Woods, DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS are roosting and loafing as usual, and, as Kevin pointed out to us yesterday, one has constructed and is sitting in a NEST! This is up in one of the tall red maples where the birds always sit. Cheers, Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
