Northern Shoveler

 Horned Grebe

Pied Billed Grebe (above and below)

 Greater Yellowlegs

 Ruddy Ducks

 Blue Winged Teal 

Ring-Necked Ducks

April 19, 2013: Birding Iroquois NWR

 Flying Greater Yellowlegs

 Horned Grebe

 Northern Shoveler

 Pipers and Caspian Tern

American Wigeon

December 31, 2011: Aquarium of Niagara and Port Weller, Ontario Birding

We started out today at the Aquarium of Niagara in Niagara Falls, New York, and then did some birding at Port Weller, Ontario, looking for the adult King Eider.  No luck on that but some nice shots otherwise!

Aquarium of Niagara:

Port Weller, Ontario (nature trail and Saint Catherines Marina)

 Bufflehead

 Snowy Owl

 Common Goldeneye

Horned Grebe

November 28, 2008: Lake Ontario Shore Birding

We took advantage of our day off today to go birding along the Lake Ontario shorline, from Olcott, to Rochester (map at the end of the post). Our main intent was to see some of the Snowy Owls that have been reported ... We were not successful, but still got a few semi-decent shots in...

Horned Grebe - Olcott, NY

Bonaparte's Gull - Braddock Bay Marina

Red Throated Loon winter plumage - Summerville Pier (Rochester)

Above and below - Flying Red-Breasted Mergansers (Summerville Pier)

Found this Grey Squirrel at Ontario Beach Park (Charlotte)

Long-Tailed Ducks at Summerville Pier and Charlotte (above and below)

Ring Billed Gull at Charlotte

We were greeted by this collection of domestic geese at the Irondequoit Bay outlet

TODAY'S LOCATIONS (INTERACTIVE)

March 25, 2007: Western NY Birding (Batavia, Rochester) (14 BIRD PHOTOS)

A little bit of free time, and a trip to Rochester meant some birding! We stopped at a few places briefly, though we did not have a lot of time. Temperature was upper 40's, but the promise of warmer temps and bright sun never materialized until later in the afternoon.

First the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant had a nice assortment of watefowl. Most represented seemed to be HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER, and RING-NECKED DUCK, and quite a few BUFFLEHEAD, SCAUP, GOLDENEYE and SHOVELERS. We saw MALLARD and CANADA GEESE of course, and one pair of BLACK DUCKS. Also some First of Season TREE SWALLOWS were hunting bugs off the pond ice, and we also flushed a RED FOX. We saw one HORNED GREBE, and a bunch of Killdeer. Light conditions were poor, so we didn't get many shots.

BATAVIA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (LOCATION)

Flying Common Mergansers
Horned Grebe
An assortment of ducks, including Scaup, Goldeneye and Bufflehead

A brief stop at the Owl Woods at Braddock Bay in Greece did not yield anything. They were not raptor banding because of the conditions, and we did not find any owls during our brief stay.

Time running out we opted for a quick stop at the Irondequoit Bay outlet. Many fewer waterfowl than a few weeks ago .. the common PIGEONS, MALLARDS, CANADA GEESE, RING BILLED GULLS, and MUTE SWANS were there of course, with one AMERICAN COOT, and some domestic geese.

Out toward the channel there were a few LONG-TAILED DUCKS, and one HORNED GREBE.

IRONDEQUOIT BAY OUTLET (LOCATION)

Female Long-Tailed Duck
A nice shot of a male Long-Tailed Duck
Down he goes!
Horned Grebe (above and below)

Mute Swan
Greylag Goose



Ring-Billed Gull
An unhappy domestic (Swan Goose / Greylag Goose?)

Another mad Canada Goose!
First of Season White-Throated Sparrow (for us)