Good evening, Jessie Barry and I headed up to Sheldrake Point (Seneca County) to look for the Pacific Loon or other goodies. The lake was fairly devoid of birds, with one very notable exception -- a second-year male King Eider at Sheldrake Point. Jessie found the eider about 30 seconds after we arrived. We are able to study the bird with Jay Powell and his father-in-law, Mike, for about thirty minutes. He was fairly close to shore on the water with Black Scoter (4) and Mallard. Among the highlights was seeing him in flight -- this is a large and heavy duck, which you get a sense for as they take flight. One of the photos gives a good sense of this.
This is almost certainly the same bird that was at Myers Point two days earlier. Myers is about 12 miles southeast of Sheldrake. I uploaded some photos to Flickr to go with the bad photos (and video) of the Myers bird. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinicola/ Happy ducking. Cheers, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
