Date: 11/9/26 11:04 am From: Jared Dawson <jaredwdawson...> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Loon watch results
A large party of observers tallied 195 migrating Common Loons from the north point of Taughannock State Park on Sunday, 8 November. This is an annual event sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Our protocol is a two hour watch beginning 30 minutes before sunrise, in this case 06:18. Roughly speaking the first hour features birds originating from the northern reaches of Cayuga Lake, and in the second hour birds that have come from Lake Ontario. We saw nary a loon until 07:04, so the presumption is that there were no local birds that morning. (We keep a separate count of north-flying birds, unsure of their status; there were 27 of these). Quite possibly due to the moderate winds coming out of the west to west-northwest, the majority of our counted birds were seen over the eastern shore. Temperature was relatively mild, in the mid-40s; skies were mostly overcast. Jared Dawson Trumansburg
