I too have seen several corpses of waterfowl here, including a pure white tundra swan a few beaches north of mine on Lansing Station Rd. 3 days ago masses of broken ice from north of my previously open water area were blown in by the wind and piled up noisily on shore & on any beach structure near the winter water line (3' below summer level). It did a lot of damage to some docks & boat hoists.
2 days ago when wind switched & came from south it brought with it huge pieces of ice from between here & Myers to the south. I watched up & down from RR track as it formed big piles on any obstacle making quite an interesting racket all the while. Crashes and tinkles and bangs. Ice piles pushed by the ever advancing ice sheet moved rocks 2 feet in diameter into shore! Lost beach furniture seen in the flow. Ducks in the open water spots had to quickly take flight sometimes as ice advanced towards them. Then by yesterday warm temps caused much of this ice to melt & things were calmer. I hope there is something besides Zebra Mussels for the ducks, etc to eat, altho I suppose some eat them. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Mar 15, 2015, at 10:33 AM, bob mcguire <bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com> wrote: Snip > > BYW, I just returned from Myers where the ice is really breaking up in the > face of a stiff north wind. There are dozens of waterfowl carcasses on the > ice along the shore. And the Aythyas (Redheads, scaup, etc) are diving right > at the ice edge (as it melts back). It seems that they are swimming in under > the ice to pluck vegetation from the bottom that has not been accessible > until now. > > Bob McGuire > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
