Some quick highlights from a lond day of birding up Cayuga Lake and around Montezuma: RUDDY TURNSTONE and DUNLIN on the beach at Myers Point GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and dozens of Bobolinks on Lake Road, Ledyard Singing immature male ORCHARD ORIOLE on Lake Road just south of bluffs 6 COMMON TERNS at Harris Park, Cayuga No shorebirds of note at Kip Island Fields, just lots of Dunlin and Least. No Tricolored Heron on Wildlife Drive. Not as many shorebirds on the main pool as yesterday (when we had 2 STILT SANDPIPERS, 1 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, 1 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, hundreds of Least Sandpipers, and 40+ Dunlin), but did have a flyover flock of 12 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS A flyover flock of 105 BRANT at Tschache Pool Many LEAST SANDPIPERS in Puddlers Marsh LEAST SANDPIPERS and a flyover LAPLAND LONGSPUR but no other shorebirds at Carncross Road.
Not sure where the bulk of the shorebirds were today, but Least Sandpipers were everywhere. No sign of the Ruff, although we ran into a pair of birders at Carncross who told us they saw it at Larue's on the wildlife drive around 10 this morning. Did not get any more details or description from them than that. It was not there at 11:30AM or in the evening when we checked it. The TRICOLORED HERON was seen in the afternoon, but not by us. No sign of the ibis. -Jay -- 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/ --
