[cayugabirds-l] Ducks in large rafts of thousands at south end of Cayuga lake

2024-02-03 Thread Maureen Cowen
Are these redheads? Sent from my iPhone -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Ducks and blue-headed vireo at Hog Hole

2022-01-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Ducks and blue-headed vireo at Hog Hole Hi everyone, The conditions are really nice on the lake today with calm water, little wind, and warm sun to view a number of different species of ducks. From Hog Hole a large Aythya raft is viewable (bring your scope), with many

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks and blue-headed vireo at Hog Hole

2022-01-04 Thread Kevin C Packard
Hi everyone, The conditions are really nice on the lake today with calm water, little wind, and warm sun to view a number of different species of ducks. From Hog Hole a large Aythya raft is viewable (bring your scope), with many hundred redhead, greater and lesser scaup, ring-necked ducks,

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks off Stewart Park, including Eurasian Wigeon

2021-03-14 Thread Paul Anderson
There's a very nice selection of ducks visible from Stewart Park this morning, and viewing is good if you can bear the stiff north wind. The list includes the Eurasian Wigeon, and also American Wigeon, Pintail, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Common Merganser, Hooded Merganser,

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks from east shore park

2021-03-08 Thread Laura Stenzler
Hi all, there is a very large mixed raft of ducks very beautifully visible from East shore park this morning. No wind lots of light, and many varieties. Come on down! Redheads, canvasbacks,lots of hooded merganser‘s, lots of common merganser‘s, Bufflehead, ringneck ducks, and more. Laura

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks/owl

2021-03-08 Thread Donna Lee Scott
On this sunny day that promises to warm up, I see a dozen or so Goldeneyes cavorting on the lake, as I finish breakfast! Fun to watch the males tossing back their heads. Meanwhile, under the lakeside feeders - again a pair of mallards eating birdseed. And I neglected to post Sat. that I

[cayugabirds-l] ducks

2021-02-25 Thread Susan Gateley
many ducks nice variety on open water at nw corner of Little Sodus Bay afternoon of Feb 25 goldeneye, white winged scoter redheads pintail, a few long tail lots of common mergansers, some courting behavior - very colorful selection -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks at Dryden Lake

2020-12-02 Thread Kevin C Packard
I took a short walk over at Dryden Lake, and found an interesting collection of ducks on an otherwise cold December day. There were 6 American wigeon, together with buffleheads, common and hooded mergansers, and a collection of mallards. Wigeon haven't been reported in eBird at Dryden Lake

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks & trains

2018-02-03 Thread Donna Lee Scott
I was just about to head down to the lake cliff/shore by my house to see if there were any other kinds of ducks or fowl in with a bunch of redheads and ringnecks, when the train pulling big noisy empty coal cars from power plant came tooting down the track! Then it parked in front so I cannot

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks by Salt Point

2017-07-09 Thread Poppy Singer
That's where we are. But the female and ducklings that I see are not black. On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:56 PM Donna Lee Scott wrote: > Probably WHITE WINGED SCOTER. > Robert R just saw female for second time north of Salt Point. > > Donna Scott > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 9,

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks by Salt Point

2017-07-09 Thread Donna Lee Scott
Probably WHITE WINGED SCOTER. Robert R just saw female for second time north of Salt Point. Donna Scott Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Poppy Singer > wrote: He's a diving duck On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:29 PM

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks

2017-03-25 Thread bob mcguire
Lots of ducks (and geese) on the move today. I spent a half hour at Myers this morning. Salmon Creek is high, with thick, chocolaty water. Killdeer calling in the background and a small number of gulls still around. But mainly I noticed ducks flying up the lake. One group of 5 BLACK SCOTERS.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks

2016-01-15 Thread Jay McGowan
>From the white lighthouse this morning, Livia and I were able to refind the REDHEAD x RING-NECKED DUCK hybrid Dave picked out yesterday. I scoped from 89 at lunch time and was able to manage some distant pictures, viewable here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S26913925 Like the bird

[cayugabirds-l] Ducks, Grebes

2014-11-20 Thread Donna Scott
16 BLACK DUCKS 1 GREAT BLUE HERON, 2 HORNED GREBES off shore, east side Cayuga Lake, lansing Station Rd. Lansing. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] ducks leaving south end of Cayuga Lake

2013-03-08 Thread nutter.dave
On Tuesday afternoon (5 March 2013) there was still a flock of hundreds of REDHEADS near the docks by the southwest corner of Cayuga Lake. Mixed in were a few RING-NECKD DUCKS and LESSER SCAUP, 4 GREATER SCAUP, 1 CANVASBACK, and at least 20 RUDDY DUCKS. Out in the lake were 11 HOODED MERGANSERS

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks ousted

2009-12-28 Thread Elaina McCartney
Yesterday afternoon in front of my house just north of Hog Hole, all that was left of the thousands of waterfowl that have gathered every day were 43 American Coots, apparently not minding the gunfire. There had been regular Tundra Swans (about 20) and Redheads (more than 1500), a scattering

[cayugabirds-l] ducks ousted

2009-12-27 Thread Dave Nutter
A late-morning / early-afternoon walk revealed that the southwest part of Cayuga Lake pretty well had the birds cleared out of it. The only Aythya I saw there were a couple of male Redhead carcasses held by one of half a dozen gunners in camo who had set up with a couple of grounded boats and