We are about a mile north of the Ithaca Yacht Club and awoke this morning to find Cayuga Lake frozen all the way across the lake. There were five white bumps on the ice in front of our house that turned out to be tundra swans. They did not move one bit until about noon. Two have left but three white bumps remain. About 30 yards away from the swans there are three juvenile and one adult bald eagle snacking on duck parts they have pulled out of the ice. Each time an eagle flies over, three tundra swan heads appear above the white bumps!
Sarah Gould -- 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/ --
