The drought has created low water levels in the WMA impoundments.  The Howland 
Island impoundment that was reported to have so many shorebirds a week or so 
ago is now dry enough that there were no shorebirds there yesterday, but there 
were 14 sandhill cranes.

I did find a mass of shorebirds using the exposed mud flats in the Seneca River 
right at the boat launch and access point at the end of Morgan Rd.  eBird 
checklist is pasted below.



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Montezuma (NMWMA)--Morgan Rd. boat launch, Wayne, New York, US Aug 10, 2016 
2:12 PM - 2:58 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     Most birds were in Seneca River on flats at end of access lane 
and boat launch.<br />Submitted from eBird Android 1.2.5
28 species

Wood Duck  6
Mallard  2
Great Blue Heron  6
Great Egret  2
Turkey Vulture  10
Common Gallinule  5
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  2
Sanderling  1
Baird's Sandpiper  1     Medium sandpiper, comparable to adjacent white-rumped, 
but thinner and more rufous with buffy breast band.   Wing tips extend beyond 
tail.
Least Sandpiper  120
White-rumped Sandpiper  12
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  140
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Ring-billed Gull  2
Caspian Tern  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
American Crow  1
Purple Martin  5
Barn Swallow  4
Gray Catbird  1
European Starling  38
Cedar Waxwing  7
Song Sparrow  3
House Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31046026

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