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> -- 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/ --
