Lots of birds migrating today!  I spent a couple of hours (7-9ish) at Myer's 
Point this morning -- Jay McGowan was there before I got there and after I 
left, so he will have more complete list. Birds were moving virtually 
everywhere we looked -- not huge numbers but good diversity and fairly 
constant. Many birds were in small groups moving very high in the clouds, and 
we are sure we missed many birds!

Couple of hundred COMMON LOONS with at least 2-3 RED-THROATED LOONS mixed in, 
sev hundred DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, all three SCOTERS (mostly flying north 
low over the lake), 1 LONG-TAILED DUCK, good variety of other waterfowl in 
small groups, including AM BLACK DUCKS, N PINTAIL, AM WIGEON, GREEN-WINGED 
TEAL, all three MERGANSERS, BUFFLEHEAD, SCAUP, etc. plus many small flocks of 
CANADA GEESE, with at least 2 very small CACKLING GEESE in one flock, and 3 
BRANT. also some raptors moving -- BALD EAGLES, COOPER's HAWK, plus at least 
one large flock of (probably Red-winged) BLACKBIRDS.

Back at home in Northeast Ithaca in the last hour, I saw 2 COMMON LOONS, 3 
CORMORANTS, 1 COMMON MERGANSER, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS, an adult RED-SHOULDERED 
HAWK, plus more flocks of blackbirds, migrating BLUEBIRDS, etc.

I'm very curious what others are seeing on the Lake, Mt. Pleasant, etc.

KEN


Ken Rosenberg
Conservation Science Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
607-254-2412
607-342-4594 (cell)
k...@cornell.edu<mailto:k...@cornell.edu>


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