My Christmas day tour of some recent snowy owl spots - Ovid, Aunkst, Martin,
Potatoes - found none, though there was a nice gathering of birders at the
Potatoes building braving the cold together.
In the Union Springs Mill Pond were two swans with yellow wing tags (K33, A21)
as has been
Those look like clear Trumpeters to me. I believe the yellow tags come from
the Ontario introduction program.
Kevin
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When I saw them, I reported them as tundra, but my first thought had been
trumpeter. The heads were stained yellowish, and I second-guessed myself –
George Fearon photographed K33 clearly and reported it as a trumpeter.
Linda Van Buskirk
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Follow up on Trumpeter Restoration Project mentioned by Kevin--all yellow wing
tags appear to come from Ontario banding. What isn't immediately clear is
their numbering system since 2008 (when lots of these were apparently put on).
http://honeyharbour.net/reporting-trumpeter-swan-sightings/
Yes, dau. Becky I have been watching the tagged trumpeter swans on Mill pond
for 2 wks. or longer. Larue St. Clair was by there on the 20th commented in a
C'mas note to us that they were trumpeters.
I haven't had time to check my records but I think those wing tag nos. may be
the same as on a
In reply to: Anne Clark who asked: If the two are sticking together and adults,
perhaps they are a pair?
Larue St. Clair mentioned that he felt the trumpeters they were a pair.
I might mention that the first time he, we met, was down towards Long Point
the winter after his wife died in Oct.
1130. Just noted an adult NORTHERN SHRIKE perched in a treetop in a
hedgerow along the field across from my house. How's that for a sentence?
It's December; right on time. Beautiful in the softly falling snow.
Steve Fast
Brooktondale
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We'll spend most of our time checking the lake for waterfowl, plus a few
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I hope to make it as far as Union Springs.
Back around 2 pm.
The general public is welcome. Bring
Seen on the roof of barn west of the potato building on the opposite side of rt
31 at 4 pm
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There are many good potential owl sites in the Cayuga Bird Club Christmas Bird
Count, the CBC CBC. I don't want to poach on anyone's intended location for
pre-dawn playing of owl calls.
I usually try along southern end of Hammond Hill, Flatiron Rd., Rt., 79 near
Slaterville, Six Hundred Rd.,
Not sure what everyone means by potato building.could you give
location?
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Seen on the roof of barn west of the potato building on the opposite side
of rt 31 at 4 pm
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This evening, at dusk, I saw six tundra swans, one clearly a first year bird,
just off the east shore of Cayuga Lake at (little) Gully Road. After having
seen the trumpeters closely so recently in Union Springs, these were obviously
tundras.
Associated ducks, but it was getting too dark for
Hi Therese,
Follow rt. 89 north off US Rt. 20, west of Montezuma Wildlife Refuge, to NY Rt.
31. Turn right. You'll be in the low-lying agricultural mucklands.
0.7 mi. down rt. 31 on the left, the potato building is an old, seemingly
unused, cement block building with faint old letters painted
On NYS-31 west of the hamlet/village of Montezuma, there is a long straightaway across the mucklands (dark-soiled, low, seasonally wet farmland) from the bridge over the Seneca River to the fork where NYS-89 comes in. About halfway across on the north side of the road is an abandoned building
For those looking for the potato building here is a link to a photo taken in
2006.
https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A4JtdOXmkWoeL;6299277A-F247-4D53-B1F1-4B114A09BD80
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