All,
I am planning a trip up to Lake Ontario this Saturday with my wife.
I will be stopping by Chimney Bluffs in the hopes of seeing the Western
Grebe. I also heard that there are many other great spots up there for
other birds. Does anyone have any suggestions on locations
in that general area around lake ontario? Please email me at
daven1...@yahoo.com if you have any suggestions. The weather
is going to be awesome on Saturdayupper 60s and sun.
Thanks so much
Good birding to all!
Dave Nicosia
From: James G. Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L@cornell.edu CAYUGABIRDS-L@cornell.edu
Sent: Wed, March 17, 2010 9:31:37 PM
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Western Grebe at Chimney Bluffs, 4PM Wends.
With beautiful calm, sunny weather I was able to find the
Western Grebe this afternoon, Wednesday, at 4 PM. It was straight out from the
parking area, swimming, snoozing and preening. Over about an hour it swam
leisurely
west until it was behind the bluff. I was able to pick it up again by scanning
from the State Park shore.
I noticed a couple things;
it doesn't associate with the Red-necked Grebes at all. Once when crossing
paths with another Grebe it dove and swam underneath to avoid a close encounter.
Many times it looked like it had something trailing behind like a tail
extension, but was only dragging a leg. I've seen other birds stretch their
legs, but this guy seemed to do in constantly mostly the right leg. Sometimes
he would windmill his leg around the side of his body. I don't think anything
was wrong, maybe it just felt good. When past the bluff toward the State Park he
resumed actively feeding, diving about every 30 seconds and staying down about
20 seconds each time. He came up with a fish on very many of those dives. This
lasted about 1/2 hour. He then resumed swimming out to the northwest in a
straight line, but not diving anymore. He must have been full. When I left at 6
PM he was still visible in the scope.
Gary Kohlenberg
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