Correction/update: Jeremy Collison texted “west end” at about 10:50am. - - Dave Nutter
> On Feb 22, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: > > This morning Jay McGowan found a beautiful breeding plumage male EURASIAN > WIGEON at Stewart Park, which he reported to the text rare-bird-alert. > > As of 9:30am when I left the park, it was with American Wigeons along the > border between the lake water and the broad mud flat (previously under the > ice shelf) which parallels the shore, near the east end of the park where we > meet for field trips. When I arrived at the park an hour earlier it had been > in shallow lake water but farther west, opposite the area midway between the > tennis courts and the swan pond. > > I recommend a scope and means to keep all your optics dry. This includes > sheltering lenses, drying them periodically, directly your breath firmly away > from them rather than slowly exhaling so warm moist air drifts onto them, and > not biking there so hurriedly that you become enveloped in your own personal > cloud rising from your clothes when you arrive. > > It has just been reported again on the text RBA but without details of > location. > > - - Dave Nutter -- 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/ --
