This morning some agitated CAROLINA WRENS alerted me to the presence of an
EASTERN SCREECH-OWL just to the north of building 16 at North Woods
Apartments in Lansing. On the short walk from the apartment to the car there
was also a small flock of BRANT headed southwest over the complex.
Another
I was at Myers for first light this morning watching three DUNLIN
forage on the spit. Nothing much else in the drizzle. A few Ring-
billed Gulls, Mallards, Starlings, and a distance Carolina Wren.
From there I went to Stewart Park, scanned the lake (Canada Geese,
one PIED-BILLED GREBE and
Paul Hurtado just called to say he is watching a very large flock of SCOTERS
on Cayuga Lake from East Shore Park, where they are visible to the
northwest. At least a good number of them appear to be BLACK SCOTERS. Good
numbers of Brant are around as well.
Jay McGowan
Dryden, NY
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I arrived at East Shore Drive before 5:00 P.M.. Gary Kohlenberg and Drew ?
were there. I saw the MANY reported Brant near the Weather Station in the
middle of the lake. Gary said the BLACK SCOTERS moved pretty far north,
too far north to id them. We went to Myers Park, and from the point,
Hi folks,
The flock of 80+ BLACK SCOTERS (later joined by 3 adult male SURF SCOTERS)
flew a bit north as previously posted, however they were visible from near
the dentist office (Dr. Janice Hall Ormsby) a ways north on 34. Most if
not all of the original flock (75+ birds, ~20f/juv, ~55m - no
This morning a couple minutes after 8am I had just dropped off a customer in
Varna and was driving back toward town on NYS 366, when I first saw one TURKEY
VULTURE fly north across the road, then a RED-TAILED HAWK fly south, then I
noticed 2 more TURKEY VULTURES apparently just starting to move
