There have been regular visits by varying numbers of Tundra Swans (40+ yesterday, 9 today). Waterfowl are reassembling after the withdrawal of ice mostly Canvasbacks and hardly any Canadas). While it was sunny, Tundra Swans were napping like snow lumps on an ice floe. Early this morning about 9 Tundras were flapping and spashing by my dock, a nice sight on a cold morning. Yesterday it looked like there were a lot of Tundras way across the lake to the east, but I couldn't be sure that there wasn't some sort of gull magnification phenomenon going on due to the ice, snow, sun and distance.
Elaina Location: SW corner Cayuga Lake Observation date: 2/11/11 Notes: A coherent group of 6 Tundra Swans shows up regularly in the SW corner of Cayuga--there are at least two young ones in the group (dark necks). They stay together even if other swans show up. Number of species: 19 Canada Goose 8 Tundra Swan 9 American Wigeon 2 American Black Duck 6 Mallard 5 Canvasback 650 Redhead 210 Ring-necked Duck 9 Ruddy Duck 8 Great Black-backed Gull 4 gull sp. 9 Mourning Dove 17 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 1 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2 Carolina Wren 1 House Sparrow 10 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org<http://ebird.org/>) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
