March 16, 2012: Early Spring Flowers in Batavia, New York

November 21, 2010: Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant Birding

Some bird photos today, mostly of waterfowl, taken at the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant

 Northern Pintail

 Red-Breasted Merganser

 Above and Below: Northern Shoveler

 American Black Duck

 Above and Below: Gadwall

 Mallard / Black Duck Hybrid

Bonaparte's Gull

November 1, 2009: BIrding Batavia and Montezuma NWR Area

We started out with some waterfowl photos at the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant

American Black Duck

Below: Four shots of Northern Shoveler

Now on to Montezuma NWR in Central New York

American Tree Sparrow

Below: Two shots of American Green Winged Teal

Northern Pintail

Ruddy Duck

Above and Below: Red-Tailed Hawk

Flock of Snow Geese

Northern Shrike

March 14, 2009: Birding at the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plane

Some more birding today at the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant. Only a few photos:

Tundra Swans
Flying Tundra Swans

Northern Pintails

Red-Winged Blackbird

March 8, 2009: Birding at the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plane

Today we headed out to Batavia Wastewater Treatment plant for some quick birding. It was foggy so terrible lighting conditions, but we saw some nice signs of spring!! (Such as the Ring-Necked Ducks...)

Ring-Necked Ducks
Ruddy Duck
Tundra Swans

Goldeneyes and Redheads

September 20, 2008: Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant Birding

Today we did some birding at the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant (info). Got some nice photos - it was surprisingly active.

Wood Duck
Common Moorhen
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
juv. Cedar Waxwing

Flying Double Crested Cormorants

Black Ducks and Ruddy

Whimberel (nice flight shot below)

Ruddy Duck

Double Crested Cormorant

Flying Black Ducks and Mallards

Flying Wood Duck

Northern Shoveler

BATAVIA WWTP (INTERACTIVE LOCATION)

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)