Re: [cayugabirds-l] HUGE Snow Geese movement
Still streaming out the south gates of the Cayuga Basin at 2:30! -Geo -- 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] HUGE Snow Geese movement
Interesting to hear that they were still streaming at 2:30. I was digging out my driveway at about 12:15 when I heard the Snows and saw them heading south. I wondered whether they were going to the corn fields because the Canadas fly in the same direction in the morning and back to the lake later in the day. When the good folks south of us started to report the flights, it was obvious the destination was not the corn fields, at least, not the local ones. I think the early reports started coming in about 12:30, just a few minutes after my first sightings. The timing and direction were perfect for an escape to the south. I think Geo's count was accurate. While I watched for just a few minutes, I saw perhaps 1000 to 2000 birds. I wonder what Geo's final tally was. Too bad the birds couldn't have waited until the census day next week. Bill McAneny, Tburg -Original Message- From: bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:38 PM To: Stephanie Greenwood Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] HUGE Snow Geese movement Still streaming out the south gates of the Cayuga Basin at 2:30! -Geo -- 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 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] HUGE Snow Geese movement
At dusk I stopped by Stewart park - the churning lakeshore was pretty bird less, but then I noticed the western sky filled with SNOW GEESE pouring in from the south. The skeins were flying north but drifting east over the lake, flying very strongly into the stiff wind. I'm sure I missed the beginning of this return flight, but I counted 5,300 birds. They seemed to be dropping onto the lake somewhere up near myer's. So it seems not all (any?) of the snows left the cayuga lake basin today. Ken Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Bill Mcaneny bmcane...@fltg.net wrote: Interesting to hear that they were still streaming at 2:30. I was digging out my driveway at about 12:15 when I heard the Snows and saw them heading south. I wondered whether they were going to the corn fields because the Canadas fly in the same direction in the morning and back to the lake later in the day. When the good folks south of us started to report the flights, it was obvious the destination was not the corn fields, at least, not the local ones. I think the early reports started coming in about 12:30, just a few minutes after my first sightings. The timing and direction were perfect for an escape to the south. I think Geo's count was accurate. While I watched for just a few minutes, I saw perhaps 1000 to 2000 birds. I wonder what Geo's final tally was. Too bad the birds couldn't have waited until the census day next week. Bill McAneny, Tburg -Original Message- From: bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:38 PM To: Stephanie Greenwood Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] HUGE Snow Geese movement Still streaming out the south gates of the Cayuga Basin at 2:30! -Geo -- 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 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 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] HUGE Snow Geese movement
Those must have been the ones I saw streaming BACK from the South heading North, definitely in the lake direction from here about 5pm. Don't know why they changed course and came back again. Weather? Wind? Lake? Stephanie On 12/27/12 9:25 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: At dusk I stopped by Stewart park - the churning lakeshore was pretty bird less, but then I noticed the western sky filled with SNOW GEESE pouring in from the south. The skeins were flying north but drifting east over the lake, flying very strongly into the stiff wind. I'm sure I missed the beginning of this return flight, but I counted 5,300 birds. They seemed to be dropping onto the lake somewhere up near myer's. So it seems not all (any?) of the snows left the cayuga lake basin today. Ken Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Bill Mcaneny bmcane...@fltg.net wrote: Interesting to hear that they were still streaming at 2:30. I was digging out my driveway at about 12:15 when I heard the Snows and saw them heading south. I wondered whether they were going to the corn fields because the Canadas fly in the same direction in the morning and back to the lake later in the day. When the good folks south of us started to report the flights, it was obvious the destination was not the corn fields, at least, not the local ones. I think the early reports started coming in about 12:30, just a few minutes after my first sightings. The timing and direction were perfect for an escape to the south. I think Geo's count was accurate. While I watched for just a few minutes, I saw perhaps 1000 to 2000 birds. I wonder what Geo's final tally was. Too bad the birds couldn't have waited until the census day next week. Bill McAneny, Tburg -Original Message- From: bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:38 PM To: Stephanie Greenwood Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] HUGE Snow Geese movement Still streaming out the south gates of the Cayuga Basin at 2:30! -Geo -- 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 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 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/ -- -- Stephanie Greenwood Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 280 1050 -- 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] HUGE Snow Geese movement
From my position overlooking the upper reaches of Cayuga Inlet I saw great numbers of Snow Geese fly south beyond the limits of the basin - at least 3 to 4 times the number that Ken reported returning to the lake at dusk. I expect a lot of them are still winging southward over moonlit Susquehanna country. Large flocks were still passing my place at 4:30, but the composition had changed, and the latest southbound flocks consisted of Canada Geese only. Given Ken's report at dusk, I would guess that in the late afternoon a final wave of Snows came down the lake, considered the enclosing highlands and the low ceiling, and turned back to the water, daunted by the uncertain prospects of making the long overland flight to Chesapeake entirely at night. -Geo -- 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/ --
