I walked down there this afternoon. There were 100 or so Redheads and some
scaup. I walked past someone who saw 400 snow geese take off from around
Stewart park and circle up and away.
Carol Cedarholm
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 5:32 PM Marie P. Read wrote:
> On the other hand, on Saturday morning
I stopped by Stewart Park yesterday, Jan. 4, at 9:45AM on my way to an
appointment. Didn’t have my scope but had my 10x bins. I parked at the East end
of the parking lot - on the gravel part. I estimated about 250 Red Heads about
30 yards off shore directly in front of me. Mixed in were about a
On the other hand, on Saturday morning (Jan 5th) as I drove down Rt 13 around
915 am, I saw a large raft of ducks just off Stewart Park (within a hundred
yards or so), went to check it out and it seemed to be Aythya but mostly
sleeping so hard to ID with just binoculars.
Marie
Marie Read
Yesterday, Friday, 4 January, around 11:30am, Stewart Park was also
strangely devoid of birds and wondered if someone came through with dogs?
There were absolutely no Canada Geese on the lawns, but ample fresh green
poop everywhere (as usual). I found several dozen hugging the lake
shoreline from
I saw Amelia Otis’ photo from 4 Jan at the Cornell compost piles, and it
definitely looks like a Black Vulture to me. That’s another Count Week species.
Chris Wood saw an Iceland Gull fly over Monkey Run south on 4 Jan. And that’s
one more Count Week species.
There was also an eBird report on
At around 9am this morning, a large flock of Common Redpolls was flying around
the field just west of the observatory, south side of the road. Lots of very
dense weed stems in here, so they’re hard to see unless they’re in flight.
Marie
Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Thanks for the report, Tom. It’s true, no Snow Geese were reported on 1
January within the Ithaca Christmas Count circle, nor so far as I know during
the Count Week (3 days prior & 3 days after, which was 29 Dec 2018 - 4 Jan
2019), so it looks like we missed them.
A map of the Ithaca
Can someone who knows Amelia Otis help her get her photo into eBird or at least
let others review it? This would be a Count Week bird. About 3 hours before her
report from Cornell compost piles, 3 Black Vultures were photographed over
Taughannock gorge, so they were definitely around.
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