Lake Erie Birding
As, I had mentioned in my previous post! I spent the day with Jordon birding along Lake Erie in Chautauqua County, NY. I wanted to try to add a few birds to my 2006 year list. We had lots of fun trying to identify many duck spots that even the spotting scopes couldn’t help bring in closer. Lighting wasn’t the best but we did get a few good looks of some waterfowl that cooperated. Highlight of the day had to be two Red-necked Grebes that we had at one of our pull over areas.
We also enjoyed watching the Hooded Mergansers and American Coots feeding in-between the docks. It was nice to closely approach them without too much startling. We also came across some Greater Scaup and A Belted Kingfisher around the dock area which I never expected to find.
Here is my list of birds that we saw which isn’t in any particular order.
Bufflehead – 16, Common Goldeneye – 12, Great Black-backed Gull – 52, Common Merganser – 14, Red Breasted Merganser – 5, *Red-necked Grebe – 2, Horned Grebe – 6, American Crow ~, Common Grackle – 1, Double-crested Cormorant – 82, Herring Gull ~, Ring-billed Gull ~, Mallard ~, Black Duck – 1, Canada Goose ~, Pied Billed Grebe – 4, *American Coot – 50, Hooded Merganser – 57, Belted Kingfisher – 1, Greater Scaup – 7,
* My first for my 2006 list and in a few days, the list starts all over again!
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