The Franklin's Gull found by Tim Lenz and Brad Walker was present at Knox-Marsellus this afternoon. A surprisingly strong roost flight of Canada Geese occurred during the last hour before dusk. Sparrows everywhere, wish it hadn't been raining. Flock of 16-17 dowitchers presumed to be Long-billed.
Dave Wheeler N Syracuse, NY Montezuma NWR Knox-Marsellus & Puddler Marshes, Seneca, US-NY Oct 7, 2012 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.5 mile(s) Comments: With Jim Tarolli; raining; didn't look carefully at ducks; lots of sparrows calling in the last half hour and optics and observer too wet to spend much time 30 species (+2 other taxa) Snow Goose 5 Canada Goose 2500 All but 100 came in during evening roost flight starting at sunset minus 30 mins Trumpeter Swan 3 Mallard X Northern Pintail X Green-winged Teal X Common Merganser 1 Double-crested Cormorant X Great Blue Heron X Great Egret 2 came in on roost flight; no wing tags seen Northern Harrier 2 Sandhill Crane 5 Black-bellied Plover 5 American Avocet 1 continuing Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Pectoral Sandpiper 25 Long-billed Dowitcher 16 presumed - too far and too dark to tell whether there might be a SBDO in there; possibly a Stilt Sandpiper in with them shorebird sp. 3 suspicious birds flew in at dusk; dark, rain; possibly LEYE, possibly phalaropes or Stilt Sandpiper Franklin's Gull 1 gorgeous adult bird found by Tim Lenz and Brad Walker; dark legs, medium-dark mantle, partial hood, small size, large white mirrors in wingtips; photographed Ring-billed Gull 200 Herring Gull 5 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 imm. bird Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Tree Swallow X much smaller numbers than on Friday White-breasted Nuthatch 1 American Pipit X looked very much like Least Sandpipers on the mudflat; number unknown Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 sparrow sp. X lots of calls heard Red-winged Blackbird X -- 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/ --
