John & I went to Frontenac Park about 1 p.m. today. I counted 17 cormorants just south of the island & no fewer than 20 more /within sight/ south towards Carr's Cove. John had seen more fly that way as I counted the ones at the island & they no doubt were hidden behind the point. I came home deliberately to get my scope to be sure they were cormorants & not loons. The slight uplift of the bills, heads held well out of the water & the fact that they were so close together indicated to me that they were cormorants. With the scope & seeing the color of their bills I confirmed that they were not loons.
Becky & I went north, leaving her place about 2:45 p.m., to check on & count osprey nests. An exceptionally large flock of cormorants, which she estimated to be at least 100, lifted from the lake in the area south of Harris Park in Cayuga & flew north. We didn't watch to see where they went. Last Fri., 17th, at the Lock, I saw one lone loon floating about 200 yards from the actual dam. It was the ONLY bird in the area that day except for an eagle on the nest. Fritzie Union Springs -- 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/ --
