Hi everyone, This morning I took a walk at Dryden Lake and am happy to say that the lake is ice free. I found a flock of ring-necked ducks and scaup, and with them a pair of long-tailed ducks. The flock flew off the lake after one of the local bald eagles came too close, but they circled around and were still on the lake when I left this morning. There's also three horned grebes and a scattering of mergansers, bufflehead, and a few other ducks (wigeon, wood duck, mallards). The Jim Schug trail is free of ice and it makes for a pleasant walk. Even heard my first eastern phoebe for the year along it.
Happy birding! Kevin Kevin C Packard 364 Ives Hall East Department of Social Statistics, ILR School Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-5381 -- 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/ --
