Red-headed Woodpeckers bred at Cayuga Lake State Park this year. I think they
used a tree south of the boat ramp. In mid-September Ann Mitchell & I saw both
an adult and a juvenile in trees on the opposite/west side Lower Lake Road near
a lodge and north of the parking lot & office. There have been persistent
reports lately of an adult in the area (with references to the playground),
including caching acorns, so it seems to be planning to stay the winter.
- - Dave Nutter
> On Dec 16, 2023, at 7:20 PM, Donna Lee Scott wrote:
>
> After I watched the Snow geese for a while at Dean’s Cove, then by the road
> in Varick, I drove north on Rt. 89 to the Knox Marcellus marsh to look at the
> sandhill cranes ( & swans & ducks).
>
> I think there were 3-400 cranes & many of them were calling & flying out of
> the marsh , across East Road, & several seemed to land in a corn field just
> over the hill to the west.
>
> Just as I was about to leave, a guy in an olive-ish-green Subaru Forester
> pulled up to chat, and we talked about the snow geese which he thinks flew
> out of the main pool of Montezuma visitors center in the morning & over to
> the lake.
> As he was about to leave, he said, “and don’t forget about the Redheaded
> woodpecker over at Cayuga Lake State Park!”
>
> I said that I didn’t know about that bird and he said it was across from one
> of the offices & a parking lot of the state park people, and on the lake side
> of the road.
>
> I did not have time to go look for it & the sun was setting, so I thought
> chances were slim that I could find it, anyway.
>
> Donna Scott
> Kendal at Ithaca-377
> Sent from my iPhone
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