[cayugabirds-l] Ladoga swans
Counted 63 TUNDRA SWANS from Ladoga point. Also one CACKLING GOOSE. Nice variety and numbers of aythya dabblers coots etc. good viewing conditions too!! Birds close to shore. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- 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] I won binoculars/question
Just thought I'd tell people that I won a nice pair of Opticron Natura binoculars from Bird Watching magazine! I vaguely remember clicking on a contest a while back when looking at their website or something, and recently got an email that I'd won. Sure enough, they arrived yesterday. A nice surprise. My Zeiss binoculars could probably use a tune-up. Any advice on how I'd go about that, where to send them, and how long I'd be without them? Also, anyone have experience in the same regard for Swarovski scopes? Thanks, Carol S. -- 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] hybrid ducks; Glaucous Gull
We also checked for the Tufted Duck this morning but were rebuffed by the misty, shimmery lake. The female BLACK SCOTER was visible out with the mergansers in the southwest corner of the lake, but the Aythya flocks were too distant to scan with much confidence. Aythya watchers looking for the Tufted Duck should also be on the lookout for two cool hybrids seen recently, a Redhead x Ring-necked Duck and a Ring-necked Duck x scaup sp.: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21400518 Sightings of either of these birds should be reported here as both are extremely rare. The gull assemblage off East Shore Park this morning yielded a single GLAUCOUS GULL (probably a third-cycle: gray back, white wing coverts and wingtips, pink-and-black bill), as well as one and possibly two adult ICELAND GULLS. Apparently the same Glaucous Gull was subsequently present at the compost around 9:30 this morning. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
RE:[cayugabirds-l] Redhead female with white spots/flecks
Redhead females regularly have irregular white spots on the head. They can have anything from a single small spot on one side of the nape to nearly the entire head white. And the whitish on the face behind the bill varies, too. In any given flock of more than a couple hundred Redheads, you can pretty much be guaranteed to find a few females with white on the head. There must be dozens of such females on the lake right now. Here is an image I put together of the variation, mostly with photos from one flock on one day: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/oSDiI9knzvWbmAqzpL9CN9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink. Best, Kevin From: bounce-118724508-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118724508-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Lee Scott Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:18 PM To: Jay McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Redhead female with white spots/flecks Today about 11:00 AM until ~1 PM on Cayuga Lake by Lansing Station Road (#s 535 to 700), Lansing, there were 3-4 small (ranging from 50-200 birds each) rafts (a few hundred feet apart) of Redheads moving back and forth, accompanied by 5 Tundra Swans, several Canada Geese, Mallards, and a pair of Hooded Mergs and a pair of Red Breasted Mergs. The Redheads swam quickly up and down near shore where it is somewhat shallow and dove now and then and came up with plant material in beaks. I soon saw what appeared to be a Redhead female variation that had a lot of white. I watched her quite a while but by the time I went back to house to get camera, she was no longer to be found. Her overall color was brownish, with the head and neck having rather regularly distributed flecks of white in the dark feathers over most of that part of the body. The head where it was not white flecks looked almost black-brown, quite dark. She had a small whitish patch on forehead where beak attaches. There was a medium-sized white patch at the base of the back of her head. There was an all-white, small (~1 inch square ?) patch on top of her left wing, about midway from the shoulder to the wing tip. There were 3 such white patches in the tail. When she flew, I was not able to see where these last 4 white patches were exactly. Her beak had the same kind of little band around it a short way back from bill tip as we see on Redheads, and the beak color was about like the photos of the female Redhead’s in my Audubon Bird App. Most the time she swam near the edge of one of the larger rafts, then sometimes she would be more by herself well away from the group, or swimming with only 4-5 Redheads. She did seem to be accompanying the groups tho. She flew a short distance with others when they took off (for no reason I could discern!). A few days ago one person posting here who had been watching all the Redheads by Stewart Park/Hogs Hole mentioned he saw a duck that looked like a Redhead/Wigeon cross. If this Lansing duck’s white patch in the middle of the face by the base of the beak joined with the somewhat larger patch at the base of the back of its head, it could resemble a Wigeon color pattern. But the two patches were not at all continuous. Just small flecks of white in between as on the rest of the head. Donna Scott Lansing, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Redhead female with white spots/flecks
Today about 11:00 AM until ~1 PM on Cayuga Lake by Lansing Station Road (#s 535 to 700), Lansing, there were 3-4 small (ranging from 50-200 birds each) rafts (a few hundred feet apart) of Redheads moving back and forth, accompanied by 5 Tundra Swans, several Canada Geese, Mallards, and a pair of Hooded Mergs and a pair of Red Breasted Mergs. The Redheads swam quickly up and down near shore where it is somewhat shallow and dove now and then and came up with plant material in beaks. I soon saw what appeared to be a Redhead female variation that had a lot of white. I watched her quite a while but by the time I went back to house to get camera, she was no longer to be found. Her overall color was brownish, with the head and neck having rather regularly distributed flecks of white in the dark feathers over most of that part of the body. The head where it was not white flecks looked almost black-brown, quite dark. She had a small whitish patch on forehead where beak attaches. There was a medium-sized white patch at the base of the back of her head. There was an all-white, small (~1 inch square ?) patch on top of her left wing, about midway from the shoulder to the wing tip. There were 3 such white patches in the tail. When she flew, I was not able to see where these last 4 white patches were exactly. Her beak had the same kind of little band around it a short way back from bill tip as we see on Redheads, and the beak color was about like the photos of the female Redhead’s in my Audubon Bird App. Most the time she swam near the edge of one of the larger rafts, then sometimes she would be more by herself well away from the group, or swimming with only 4-5 Redheads. She did seem to be accompanying the groups tho. She flew a short distance with others when they took off (for no reason I could discern!). A few days ago one person posting here who had been watching all the Redheads by Stewart Park/Hogs Hole mentioned he saw a duck that looked like a Redhead/Wigeon cross. If this Lansing duck’s white patch in the middle of the face by the base of the beak joined with the somewhat larger patch at the base of the back of its head, it could resemble a Wigeon color pattern. But the two patches were not at all continuous. Just small flecks of white in between as on the rest of the head. Donna Scott Lansing, NY -- 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] Cayuga Lake Today 21 Jan 2015- No Tufted Duck found.
Dipped on Tufted Duck this morning from Hog Hole with terrible viewing conditions and again late thisafternoon from Rte 89 with almost ideal viewing conditions. There were so many ducks around I easily could have missed it. All common species of Aythya genus were present. There were also RUDDY DUCKS, COMMON GOLDENEYES, COMMON MERGANSERS, MALLARDS, BLACK DUCKS, HOODED MERGANSERS, and BUFFLEHEAD. Did not re-locate the Black Scoter either. Earlier in the afternoon from Stewart Park I did pick up the GLAUCOUS GULL. This was probably the same one Jay had earlier today. It was almost all white, light gray mantle, and a dark ring near the the tip of the bill. The bird was a little larger than the herring gulls nearby. I did not find any iceland gulls. TUNDRA SWANS were very common on the east side of the lake. I had 63 at Ladoga, and 49 at Long Point. Also at Long Point, 55 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, 6 LONG-TAILED DUCKS and 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. There was one CACKLING GOOSE at Ladoga as well. Although I didn't get on the Tufted Duck it was a great day of birding. I totaled 54 species. Dave Nicosia -- 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] OOB - Owasco
Just wanted to let folks know that there are an unusual number of Tundra Swans on Owasco Lake, generally above mid-lake and along the western shore. They’re quite spread out and mixing with Canada geese. Yesterday, I guess there were 200-300 (maybe more). Is the same true on Cayuga Lake? Also, I’ve seen an adult Bald Eagle several days in succession eyeing ducks from lakefront trees and catching a fish. (This is as I drive by, slowly, since there isn’t much room to pull over and park.) The location is on Rt. 38, just north or south of Stone School Rd., but I suspect that location will change, as the eagle locates new hunting grounds farther up or down the shore. Anyway, three successive days of just driving by and seeing an eagle in action is a treat. Eben McLane -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] OOB - Owasco
I did not have as many Tundra Swans as you on Cayuga Lake Today but I did notice many more than usual for mid-winter. From: Eben McLane etmcl...@gmail.com To: CAYUGABIRDS-L cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:52 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OOB - Owasco Just wanted to let folks know that there are an unusual number of Tundra Swans on Owasco Lake, generally above mid-lake and along the western shore. They’re quite spread out and mixing with Canada geese. Yesterday, I guess there were 200-300 (maybe more). Is the same true on Cayuga Lake? Also, I’ve seen an adult Bald Eagle several days in succession eyeing ducks from lakefront trees and catching a fish. (This is as I drive by, slowly, since there isn’t much room to pull over and park.) The location is on Rt. 38, just north or south of Stone School Rd., but I suspect that location will change, as the eagle locates new hunting grounds farther up or down the shore. Anyway, three successive days of just driving by and seeing an eagle in action is a treat. Eben McLane -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hog hole this morning no tufted duck found
Steam fog and shimmer made for horrible viewing conditions. Plenty of aythya in several rafts. There was a distant raft that was huge. Bird could still be tucked in somewhere. Will try again this afternoon from rte 89. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- 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/ --
