[cayugabirds-l] Bald Eagle - Etna, NY

[cl...@juno.com]

We have seen eagles flying over our yard in the past three months, but today as 
I was driving over the Etna Mills bridge crossing Fall Creek, there was an 
adult eagle sitting in a large tree directly overlooking the stream bed. 
Watched for about 10 minutes until traffic forced us to leave. Colleen Richards

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hogs Hole raft?

[Dave Nutter]

Yesterday I spent a couple hours reveling there. The main rafts (there were 2 
then) were:
Redheads, most
Lesser Scaup, a few scattered throughout
Greater Scaup, at least 2 male & 2 female (not together),
Canvasback, 1 male separate from 2 females together
Ring-necked Ducks, 13 males & 1 female mainly near east edge 
Ruddy Ducks, 10 mixed females & non-breeding males sleeping, mostly together & 
toward SE edge
Gadwall, 1 male at W edge
American Wigeon, 2 males, 1 female, at W edge
American Coot, 73 along W edge or separate
Mallards mainly along or closer to Treman lakeshore
Domestic type Mallard, 1 with white breast & brown belly
American Black Ducks, a dozen or more scattered around periphery
Hybrid Mallard x American Black Ducks, 2 males
Northern Pintail, 2 males together among Mallards
Bufflehead, 1 female separate to W, 1 male at E edge

Also more separate from the Aythya rafts:
Hooded Mergansers, males & females mainly together, NW, N, & E
Common Mergansers, males & more female type, scattered farther E
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER, 1 dingy male diving along E side of red lighthouse 
breakwater
Long-tailed Duck, 1 winter male N of piling cluster pointed out by Time Lenz 
viewing from E Shore Park
Common Goldeneye, 5 males, 4 females together N of Stewart Park
Double-crested Cormorant, 4 resting on red lighthouse breakwater
Pied-billed Grebe, 2 separate along W shore
Horned Grebe, 34 (my count) or 40 (Tim Lenz’ count) scattered in middle of lake 
W & N of E Shore Park
Common Loon, 1 in middle of lake seen from E Shore Park.

Herring Gulls, lots
Great Black-backed Gulls, plenty
Ring-billed Gulls, enough
GLAUCOUS GULL, 1 adult very cooperative on ice floe with 30 Herrings & 1 
Ring-billed between E end of Stewart Park & E Shore Park for much of the morning
(Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 adult seen the day before)
(Iceland Gull, 1 pale juvenile seen the day before)

Canada Geese, scads
(Cackling Goose, probable given the number of Canadas, but searching for these 
guys drives me nuts) 

Belted Kingfisher, 1 male
Carolina Wren, 1 singing in brush along Treman Lakeshore
American Crow, 2 together along shore among Mallards
No raptors (a Red-tailed Hawk was by the Children’s Garden). 

If there’s another calm day with similar air & water temperatures before 
gunning resumes (Dec 27?), I highly recommend going. You never know when a 
Tufted Duck or Eared Grebe or any sort of Scoter might show up. Or even a King 
Eider. Meanwhile the Redheads & Mallards make a Christmas-y spectacle. 

- - Dave Nutter

> On Dec 20, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Nancy Cusumano  
> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had a chance to check out the big raft of duck in the Hogs Hole 
> area? I have not and curious as to the make up of the raft.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 

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[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl, Ovid

[Marty Schlabach]

About 4:45pm today Mary Jean and I were driving along Center Rd, in Ovid, 
looking for Short Eared Owls.  Unfortunately we didn't see any, but Mary Jean 
spotted a Snowy Owl flying as it landed on a power line pole along Center Rd, 
about midway between CR129 and the town dump.  We watched it for about 10 
minutes and it was still on the pole when we drove on.

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[cayugabirds-l] Hogs Hole raft?

[Nancy Cusumano]

Has anyone had a chance to check out the big raft of duck in the Hogs Hole
area? I have not and curious as to the make up of the raft.

thanks.


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