Tim's counts don't seem unreasonable at all. Here is a count for one of my stops yesterday, midday, on my way up the east side of the lake. The Tundra Swan numbers are high here and at Towpath Mach. Where I counted over 500.
Location: Harris Park Observation date: 2/20/11 Number of species: 15 Canada Goose 310 Tundra Swan 304 Gadwall 6 American Wigeon 3 American Black Duck 6 Mallard 2 Canvasback 220 Redhead 3800 Ring-necked Duck 21 Greater Scaup 11 Lesser Scaup 3 Greater/Lesser Scaup 14 Common Goldeneye 21 American Coot 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 American Crow 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) From: bounce-8346169-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-8346169-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Lenz Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 8:15 PM To: CayugaBirds Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Sunday Cayuga Lake Birding Hi, This afternoon I went up the west side of Cayuga Lake and circled around eastward to Union Springs before it got dark. Three LONG-TAILED DUCKS and a pair of AMERICAN WIGEON were about the only birds of note at Sheldrake. There's now open water at Mud Lock, which is hosting three TRUMPETER SWANS and many TUNDRA SWANS. A polynya north of Harris Park was filled to the brim with Aythya ducks, dabblers, gulls, and swans: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seabamirum/5463545394/lightbox/ I spent the last half hour before sunset scanning through the mother raft of waterfowl off Frontenac Park in Union Springs: Frontenac Park, Cayuga, US-NY Feb 20, 2011 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: Overcast, calm winds. Glass lake. 22 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 300 Tundra Swan 50 Gadwall 30 American Wigeon 15 American Black Duck 100 Mallard 150 Northern Pintail 4 Canvasback 2500 Redhead 18000 Two unbroken parallel lines of amorphous width spanning from the island to Farleys Pt. Ring-necked Duck 500 Greater Scaup X Lesser Scaup X Greater/Lesser Scaup 2000 Bufflehead 30 Common Goldeneye 175 Hooded Merganser 1 Common Merganser 250 Ring-billed Gull X Herring Gull (American) X Great Black-backed Gull X Eastern Bluebird 7 Flew in from the south into the large willow in front of the building, then continued northward. European Starling 15 American Tree Sparrow 1 heard only Of course the numbers above are only estimates but I don't think any of them are too unreasonable. Good birding -- Tim Lenz t...@cornell.edu<mailto:t...@cornell.edu> Web Applications Developer Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- 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/ --
