I watched Lake Ontario for almost 4 hours today (10:53-12:53, 2:55-4:35) at Shadigee in the Town of Yates (North end of Rt. 63) and saw lots of movement. Highlights included numbers of Brant, Black Scoter, and Purple Sandpipers.
Red-throated Loon - 6 Common Loon - 8 Red-necked Grebe - 3 Horned Grebe - 48 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Snow Goose - 2 (1 Blue) Brant - 2,823 Mallard - 61 American Black Duck - 5 Northern Pintail - 119 American Wigeon - 7 Lesser Scaup - 3 White-winged Scoter - 231 Black Scoter - 202 Surf Scoter - 5 dark-winged Scoter - 13 Common Goldeneye - 27 Bufflehead - 20 Long-tailed Duck - 521 Red-breasted Merganser - 262 Common Merganser - 2 Hooded Merganser - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 5 Herring Gull - 25 Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Purple Sandpiper - 2 Dunlin - 1 Snow Bunting - 1 Brett Lakeshore Nature Tours 716-628-8226 bmew...@lakeshorenaturetours.com www.LakeshoreNatureTours.com Facebook Page for Lakeshore Nature Tours -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
