[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
Good morning all, Could I get an update on what the ice looks like on the north end of the lake? I'm working from home currently, and haven't spent anytime along the lake in a while. Just curious where the ice sheet ends. Last year it extended past Cayuga Lake SP boat launch area, but that was into February I believe. Thanks! Alyssa -- Alyssa Johnson Environmental Educator (m) 315.576.5754 (w) 315.365.3588 Montezuma Audubon Center PO Box 187 2295 State Route 89 Savannah, NY 13146 Montezuma.audubon.org Pronouns: She, Her, Hers -- 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 ice and birds
My teenaged sons and I were doing a science project this week on mapping the ice on Cayuga Lake. Thanks everyone for your references, etc.We saw 3 immature bald eagles and 1 adult on the ice near the east shore on Tuesday, approximately .2 miles south of the ice edge. There were none in sight when we returned this morning.Traveling north this afternoon we stopped at various points to look for waterfowl - mostly groups of 10-20 ducks or geese until we hit Long Point State Park where we found the largest flocks of the day. Further north there were again smaller groups of 20-30 birds at each of 4 locations in Aurora plus 35 Canada geese, 5 bufflehead, 2 gadwall, 8 redhead and one mystery duck (working on this one still with pix) at Factory Road pond. The roadside pond at Union Springs [can never remember what it's actually called] was also quite full of geese and ducks while the lake is quite frozen and snow covered to ~ .4 miles south of Union Springs.Ran out of time and daylight to get to the west shore of the north part of the lake today. Earlier in the week we did see swans amongst the ducks and geese along the shore at Taughannock. Other birds seen were:northern mockingbird on Scofield Rd. at 3:45and2 short-eared owls at corner of 34B and Long Point State Park Rd around 4:50 pm. One was flying over the field on the southeast corner, while the second perched on a utility wire pole at the crest of the hill. Colleen Richards How Old Men Tighten Skin 63 Year Old Man Shares DIY Skin Tightening Method You Can Do From Home http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/54e7e4fe3c39e64fe0ca5st01duc -- 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] Cayuga Lake ice
Try this link. Terrific history. John http://www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Wed, February 18, 2015 10:17, Donna Lee Scott wrote: This link to the ice article does not seem to work. Donna L. Scott From: bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Laurie Roe Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:18 AM To: John and Sue Gregoire Cc: Jay McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice www.cohttp://www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/.../http://ny.us/wp-content/.../Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf This is a nice history of the freezing of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes...13 pages, written by a local historian. I remembered reading it a couple of winters ago when we had significant freezing..Laurie On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.netmailto:k...@empacc.net wrote: Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some cold winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was the location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the edge point. There was less interest and concern about the southern end. Much the same on Seneca for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom drops to 400 feet quickly. Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies but as you found out, access is tough. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote: I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the shore east of Ladoga. I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that do manage to stay open. Jay -- 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/ -- -- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Isak Dinesen http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/isak_dinesen.html Healing Hands of Ithaca MassageIthaca.com 108 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca,NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
www.co.*seneca*.ny.us/wp-content/.../*Frozen*-*Cayuga*-*Seneca*-*Lakes*.pdf This is a nice history of the freezing of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes...13 pages, written by a local historian. I remembered reading it a couple of winters ago when we had significant freezing..Laurie On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.net wrote: Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some cold winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was the location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the edge point. There was less interest and concern about the southern end. Much the same on Seneca for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom drops to 400 feet quickly. Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies but as you found out, access is tough. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote: I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the shore east of Ladoga. I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that do manage to stay open. Jay -- 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/ -- -- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Isak Dinesen http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/isak_dinesen.html Healing Hands of Ithaca MassageIthaca.com 108 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca,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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some cold winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was the location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the edge point. There was less interest and concern about the southern end. Much the same on Seneca for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom drops to 400 feet quickly. Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies but as you found out, access is tough. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote: I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the shore east of Ladoga. I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that do manage to stay open. Jay -- 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] Cayuga Lake ice
This link to the ice article does not seem to work. Donna L. Scott From: bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Laurie Roe Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:18 AM To: John and Sue Gregoire Cc: Jay McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice www.cohttp://www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/.../http://ny.us/wp-content/.../Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf This is a nice history of the freezing of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes...13 pages, written by a local historian. I remembered reading it a couple of winters ago when we had significant freezing..Laurie On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.netmailto:k...@empacc.net wrote: Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some cold winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was the location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the edge point. There was less interest and concern about the southern end. Much the same on Seneca for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom drops to 400 feet quickly. Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies but as you found out, access is tough. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote: I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the shore east of Ladoga. I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that do manage to stay open. Jay -- 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/ -- -- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Isak Dinesen http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/isak_dinesen.html Healing Hands of Ithaca MassageIthaca.com 108 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca,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
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
The content has expired. Richard From: d...@cornell.edu To: roel...@gmail.com; k...@empacc.net CC: jw...@cornell.edu; cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:17:01 + This link to the ice article does not seem to work. Donna L. Scott From: bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Laurie Roe Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:18 AM To: John and Sue Gregoire Cc: Jay McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/.../Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf This is a nice history of the freezing of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes...13 pages, written by a local historian. I remembered reading it a couple of winters ago when we had significant freezing..Laurie On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.net wrote: Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some cold winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was the location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the edge point. There was less interest and concern about the southern end. Much the same on Seneca for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom drops to 400 feet quickly. Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies but as you found out, access is tough. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote: I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the shore east of Ladoga. I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that do manage to stay open. Jay -- 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/ -- -- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Isak Dinesen Healing Hands of Ithaca MassageIthaca.com 108 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca,NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
Just go to Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdfie=utf-8oe=utf-8 It is the first result. Robbie LaCelle Camden, NY On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:20 AM, RICHARD WOOD rwood...@msn.com wrote: The content has expired. Richard -- From: d...@cornell.edu To: roel...@gmail.com; k...@empacc.net CC: jw...@cornell.edu; cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:17:01 + This link to the ice article does not seem to work. Donna L. Scott *From:* bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto: bounce-118832291-15001...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *Laurie Roe *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:18 AM *To:* John and Sue Gregoire *Cc:* Jay McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice www.co.*seneca*.ny.us/wp-content/.../*Frozen*-*Cayuga*-*Seneca*-*Lakes* .pdf This is a nice history of the freezing of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes...13 pages, written by a local historian. I remembered reading it a couple of winters ago when we had significant freezing..Laurie On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.net wrote: Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some cold winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was the location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the edge point. There was less interest and concern about the southern end. Much the same on Seneca for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom drops to 400 feet quickly. Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies but as you found out, access is tough. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote: I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the shore east of Ladoga. I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that do manage to stay open. Jay -- 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/ -- -- The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Isak Dinesen http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/isak_dinesen.html Healing Hands of Ithaca MassageIthaca.com
[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands, like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the shore east of Ladoga. I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that do manage to stay open. Jay -- 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/ --
