This reminds me, during my Loon Watch this morning I was impressed by about 40 Hooded Mergansers on the Inlet to my north opposite the CU & IC crew boathouses, but 150 really is a lot! I thought I heard gunfire far to the north and wondered if the Hooded Mergansers were taking refuge from the lake. In addition to the large number of Hooded Mergansers, I saw a more typical 9 Common Mergansers, and among them two female Red-breasted Mergansers, which is very unusual in Cayuga Inlet. If I had been looking from my windows or deck, instead of from the NYS-89 bridge, they could have been new yard birds. I saw one of them catch a fish.
Also I saw groups of 8, 2, and 20 Double-crested Mergansers in more-or-less southbound flight, which is more than I have seen on the south end of Cayuga Lake recently. - - Dave Nutter > On Nov 18, 2020, at 8:36 PM, Judith Jones <j...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > Saw about 150 Hooded Mergansers at 4:30 pm today on the Cayuga Inlet between > the Marina entrance and the boat houses. Also a single mockingbird in the > brush at the edge of the golf course. > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- -- 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/ --
