I wonder for how long. The lake can skim over with a sharp dip in temp, and
then winds break up the ice. When we went down to the lakeshore Saturday
morning (we're just north of the village of Aurora), the shore was covered with
shards of ice, clear as glass-and then the water was indeed froze
9 Feb 14
In contrast with the ongoing discussions of lakes freezing, a pair of
Brown-headed Cowbirds (as in one male, one female) arrived twice to my feeders
at 147 Hile School Road. My observations were separated by about 3 hours and
both birds were there both times.
They were of course, ve
This morning I drove several roads in Lansing, looking for open country birds.
Highlights were on Buck Rd: at #648, west of Van Nostrand Rd., I was surprised
to see a YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER hanging on a frozen apple in the crown of a
heavily laden tree -- it eventually dropped off and flew in
That looks like Cayuga Lake froze completely at intervals of 20, 10, 30, 19, 9, 20, and 8 years between when the white settlers arrived and when that article was published in 1912. It would be surprising if there were then a gap of over a century.--Dave NutterOn Feb 09, 2014, at 09:18 PM, Susan Fas
Just a quick note, don't have time to go into more detail, but among the
gulls at the compost today were a 2nd-cycle type GLAUCOUS (all plain
white), two nice frosty 1st-cycle ICELAND, and a darker Iceland-type that
may well have been a 1st-cycle THAYER'S, although I thought it looked on
the pale e
Hi everyone
Thank you for all of the stimulating
and informative answers!
Ice is interesting. My favorite ice image this year was the snowy owl at
Stewart Park gently bobbing up and down on a small chunk of ice at dusk.
-Liisa
Liisa Mobley
On Feb 9, 2014 6:30 PM, Tom wrote:
Linda,
Didn't the
A. R. Cahn in "The freezing of Cayuga Lake in its relation to bird life". Auk
29:437-444 reports that the lake was completely frozen over in 1796, 1816,
1826, 1856, 1875, 1884, 1904, and 1912. A couple of these were thought due to
volcanic eruptions in other parts of the world.
Steve Fast
--
Linda,
Didn't the Lake actually freeze from shore to shore @ Aurora in '78-'79 when
Sissy Farenthold declared it so & cancelled Wells classes?
And Ms Mobley,
A short answer to why Seneca & Cayuga don't freeze easily is that they are
examples of the "surface area to volume" problem. Although th
Lake-source cooling doesn't add significant heat to the lake, even when it's
running in the summer (something like the equivalent of 4 hrs of sunlight over
a year).
Cayuga Lake froze from shore to shore @ Aurora (the widest point) in '78-'79,
when what was then Milliken Station was operating f
At the urging of our food column editor, Steve Fast, I led a small group of
bird club members on a trip up the lake to Dories (Aurora) for lunch. Good
food, good prices, and we found a few good birds along the way.
There were gulls on the ice off East Shore Park, but they were mostly hunkered
d
Yeah, global warming is happening alright, you just have to look around.
According to the arctic weather web site
http://www.athropolis.com/temperature/coldreport2.php
due north of us in Nunavut is cold, but Barrow, Alaska has been consistently
warmer than Ithaca for weeks, and is currently ten
My grandmother's photo album contains some photos of the famous 1912 Seneca
Lake freeze-over. Hasn't happened again since then.
-Geo Kloppel
On Feb 9, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Ann Mitchell wrote:
> My understanding is that the lake completely froze over was 1912. If someone
> has a different date, t
With both Miliken Station ( or what ever it is called now) and the
Cornell lake source cooling adding warm water it almost impossible for
the lake to completely freeze over, there will always be some open
water. It really is just a matter of how much. Also for the record,
having lived in the ar
My understanding is that the lake completely froze over was 1912. If someone
has a different date, that would be great! Ann
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> On Feb 9, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Linda Post Van Buskirk wrote:
>
> As of noon today, Cayuga was pretty much frozen from Chris's hill north.
> Chris's h
As of noon today, Cayuga was pretty much frozen from Chris's hill north.
Chris's hill is the big rise north of Levanna, if one doesn't know local names.
South of that, the lake was a combination of frozen patches and open patches.
This is the most ice I've seen since 1994, and then it didn't
Historically, Lake Superior did freeze over entirely. The current open
water during winter allows for much greater evaporation that would occur
if the ice cover were 100%. One of the major contributors to the drop in
the level of the Great Lakes is the additional winter evaporation
associated w
Cayuga Lake Birding Van Tour
Feb. 12, Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Cayuga Lake is an Audubon designated Important Bird Area because of the
incredible number of waterfowl that use the lake during winter and migration
seasons. Hop in the Montezuma Audubon Center van for an excursion to the
n
The full answer about the reluctance of Cayuga and especially Seneca to
completely freeze over is a bit complicated, but a primer on the physical
limnology can be read here:
http://www.gflrpc.org/Publications/SenecaLakeWMP/chap6a.pdf
-Geo Kloppel
On Feb 9, 2014, at 7:20 AM, "Liisa S. Mobley"
There's been a bit of discussion about the Finger Lakes freezing over, as well
as the Great Lakes, on the Cayuga Birds list in recent weeks. I came across
this article from one of the channel 9 (Syracuse) weathermen, which indicates
that the Great Lakes, as of last Friday, had more than 79% of
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