Yesterday I talked to Reuben Stoltzfus. If anyone wants to see lots of Snow Geese, he recommends looking out at Cayuga Lake from Vineyard Road, just south of Dean’s Cove State Marine Park along NYS 89 in the Town of Romulus. If his estimates of the dimensions and density of the raft which he has seen there for several days, there could by over a hundred thousand Snow Geese there. Given that I get overwhelmed by numbers over, say 5, it’s hard for me to dispute that, but I’m sure it’s quite a sight.
I also had a question from a passerby in Allan Treman State Marine Park, who noticed my binoculars, scope, and interest in birds. She asked whether it’s possible that a friend was correct in claiming to have recently seen a Snowy Owl in Speedsville, which is at the southeast corner of Tompkins County. I said it’s not where I would expect one, but then again I didn’t expect the Snowy Owl that many of us saw a few years ago in a tree in a largely forested upland along East Miller Road in Danby. As I recall there is some open flattish land along the West Branch of Owego Creek around Speedsville. Anyway, the prime trait of birds is their mobility, and the thing that often surprises us is where they go. Keep your eyes open in that area. - - Dave Nutter -- (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 NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
