During just one hourlong span on a recent afternoon, Flora Weatherhog watched a hundreds-strong flock of bufflehead ducks bob and weave across the surface of Lake Ontario, a line of 10 downy-white swans glide by and a brace of ducks land on her breakwall.

“It’s so interesting here,” says Weatherhog, who moved with companion Al Penny from Webster to a lakefront home on Edgemere Drive in 2006. “We had animals in Webster, too, but I’d never seen possums before, never seen fox before and all these birds.”

In their nearly four years of waterfront living, almost every week and every season brings a new nature-related first that Weatherhog has recorded in her journal. There was a pair of ducks that raised a brood of 11 ducklings in their front yard; a swan so young the beak wasn’t orange yet; flocks of hawks flapping overhead; and the cormorant that peeked through their sliding glass door. Earlier this month, a white domestic duck showed up with a flush of mallards to forage their yard; on another day, a northern pintail duck arrived. “If I was going to move to Greece, I decided I was going to live on the waterfront,” says Weatherhog.

Both Eastman Kodak Co. retirees, Weatherhog and Penny have taken to keeping a pair of binoculars near the kitchen window and a camera handy.

“I wasn’t too much into photography until all these animals started showing up,” says Penny, showing off his shots that captured the cormorant, the lake frozen into mountains of ice with spurts of water shooting through cracks near the shoreline, and a blanket of bobbing black and white and iridescent green buffleheads covering the lake’s surface.

“Isn’t it amazing how nature can make something so black and so white,” he says, marveling out the window at the smaller group of buffleheads just outside. “They’re so white they almost glow.”

For bird-watching in the Rochester area, it’s hard to find a better place than Greece’s lakeshore near the Braddock Bay Fish and Wildlife Management Area. As Weatherhog and Penny learned, the Greece area is a focal point of migratory and native bird activity. During spring and fall, it’s possible to see more than 130 different songbirds pass through the area.

With an extensive marshland habitat, Braddock Bay is also prime for waterfowl activity and is a major migratory pathway for raptors. During a record year in 1996, more than 140,000 raptors were counted during an annual hawk watch, according to Braddock Bay Raptor Research.

Weatherhog said while she misses her former neighborhood in Webster, she’s come to love all Greece has to offer.

“There’s always something to see here,” she said. “Sometimes it’s a whole bunch of sailboats, sometimes it’s kayakers or jet skis or parasailing. There’s even a seaplane that takes off from the pond. Then, in winter, there’s ice hockey and motorcycles with studded tires. Always something going on.”