Well, I don’t have a method for estimating, so I could be very, very wrong!
Deb From: Evelyn Weinstein <myisla...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 9:03 PM To: Deb Grantham <d...@cornell.edu> Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] snow geese flying The snow geese that I also saw today were up along Rt 89 not far from Wolffy's Grill and there must have been closer to 50,000 between those rafting on the lake and those flying overhead! Amazing!!!!! Evie Weinstein On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 8:30 PM Deb Grantham <d...@cornell.edu<mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote: This afternoon, between 4:30 and 5:30 pm, I saw thousands of snow geese flying south, group after group. I estimate 2,000 to 4,000 but it was extremely difficult to count! This was from Sheffield Road, the Ithaca/Enfield town line and about ¼ mile north of Rt. 79. I also quite a few Vs of Canada geese that were circling or doing a 180, hard to tell, I think they were mostly heading south/south-east. There were far fewer of those than the snow geese. And I’ve been hearing red-winged blackbirds but haven’t seen them yet. Deb Deborah G. Grantham Director, Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center Cornell Institute for Resource Information Sciences Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Cornell University The Northeastern IPM Center is based at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Cornell University sits on the traditional homelands of the Cayuga Nation<https://cals.cornell.edu/american-indian-indigenous-studies/about/land-acknowledgment>. 100B Rice Hall, 340 Tower Road Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-8879 www.northeastipm.org<http://www.northeastipm.org/> | Facebook | Twitter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Evelyn Weinstein, LMSW 376 Brooktondale Rd Brooktondale, NY 14817 USA 607.592.3333 -- 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/ --
