Re: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl

2014-01-28 Thread Bill Evans
Just found this paper that shows in 1994 Lake Erie went from ~50% iced over on Jan 12 to ~100% on Jan 21 (Fig. 8). I’m imagining grebes on 5000 square miles of lake getting confined to a smaller and smaller area over a week then abruptly on one calm night being forced to evacuate en masse. htt

Re: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl

2014-01-28 Thread Bill Evans
the June 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption. Bill E From: Linda Post Van Buskirk Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:08 AM To: Asher Hockett ; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl I’m watching the ice in Aurora—and more is accumulating along the shore north of the vil

RE: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl

2014-01-28 Thread Linda Post Van Buskirk
ubject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl This from Wikipedia: A tradition at Wells College<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_College> in Aurora holds that if the lake completely freezes over, classes are canceled (though for only one day).[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayuga_Lake

Re: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl

2014-01-28 Thread Asher Hockett
This from Wikipedia: A tradition at Wells College in Aurora holds that if the lake completely freezes over, classes are canceled (though for only one day).[6]According to Wells College records, this la

Re: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl

2014-01-27 Thread Dave Nutter
I don't know what possessed me to suggest the lake might freeze over when there's a gap of some 30 miles. Still, the ice I saw yesterday was not merely over 3 or 5 feet of water, it may have been 30 to 50 feet deep. Today around mid-day I happened to drive NYS-89, after the west wind had been blowi

Re: [cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl

2014-01-27 Thread Donna Scott
Not a chance the whole lake will freeze over, Dave. No ice at all up here where it is 460 feet deep. 1 1/2 weeks ago water near shore was 39 degrees. It freezes only at the shallow ends and areas adjacent, usually. A little raft of Redheads, Ring Necks, swimming, diving here. Accompanied by so

[cayugabirds-l] lake ice & waterfowl

2014-01-26 Thread Dave Nutter
I don't know what possessed me to walk to the lake again today, having walked both to East Shore Park and past Treman to the lake yesterday. Anyway, the ice has grown considerably, extending about 3/4 of a mile from the land at Treman's lakeshore, so today's walk was longer than I expected. I did g