Jacob Drucker and I checked areas along the southeast corner of the lake today, from Stewart Park up to Myers, in late morning and early afternoon. Viewing conditions were great (little to wind, no waves), but Aythya were amazingly scarce, and we saw no scaup at all. Among the birds of interest were
Northern Pintail - 1 female at Stewart, 1 male at Myers Redhead - only 1! female on the ice at Stewart Ring-necked Duck - 1 at Stewart, shortly thereafter seen entering a Great Black-backed Gull Pied-billed Grebe - several, Myers Horned Grebe - distant, Stewart Red-necked Grebe - TWO - one close at Stewart, another (seen at the same time,) close to shore to the north of East Shore Park Rough-legged Hawk - Burdick Hill Road KILLDEER - 1 at the base of the spit at Myers. So the Bluegrass Lane bird is not the only one around! Northern Shrike - Cayuga Vista Drive, very cooperative -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@gmail.com -- 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/ --
