I drove up the east side of Cayuga Lake early this morning, expecting to
come upon hordes of snow geese at some point. There were none at the north
end of the lake, and I made it to East Rd. before I had 2 SNOW GEESE fly
over. Nothing in the Mucklands, but at Carncross Rd., I was just in time to
Cayugabirders,
Jay McGowan, Shawn Billerman, and I looked for the big flocks of Snow
Geese in the Montezuma/ Savannah area this morning without success
(similar to Steve's report). We did see a massive flock of ~13,000
Northern Pintail (conservative estimate not counting many birds in the
tall
Hi all,
Thanks to Mr. Heist Kathy Strickland for mentioning that I had used the
incorrect Rd. name for the eagles. Maybe because I've known Armstrong in
Lansing for no less than 30 yrs.! The eagles WERE at the ARMITAGE Rd. nesting
area. However, this afternoon Kathy I struck out on seeing
I was at the Mucklands @ 715 this morning and saw tens of thousands of snows,
on the muck there as well as flying over from what I presumed was the Lake or
the Refuge. The ones on the muck lifted off at 724 and headed north.
From:
This afternoon I was finally able to find a large flock of SNOW GEESE at the
south end of the mucklands. Over the 2 hours I watched this flock it grew to
45,000 birds as more came in from the north. The flock periodically rose to
circle as BALD EAGLES flew over. I was able to find one ROSS'S