Perri and I went up the lake today to take a look at the Red-headed Woodpeckers. We found both birds at the edge of the woodlot on the east side of Rt. 90 just south of Poplar Ridge. One bird was calling frequently and we saw both birds visit a cavity, possibly a nest hole. This hole is in the largest sycamore near the west edge of the lot and more or less centered north-south, in a narrow dead drunk in the middle of the main sycamore trunks. One bird spent several minutes inside but I don't know what it was doing, possibly just prospecting or perhaps they even have an active nest already.
We headed up to Montezuma afterwards but didn't see too much of note. The best shorebird habitat by far is at Tschache Pool, where we saw Dunlin, Least and Semipalmated sandpipers, and perhaps 30 Semipalmated Plovers. Good birding. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
