The field along Hanshaw Road, near the mouth of Sapsucker Woods Road, can be productive for shorebirds when wet (as it is now!).
I just had four Pectoral Sandpipers in this field, in the shallow grassy "pan" that has been full of Killdeer for the past couple of weeks. Yesterday, there were 3 Greater and 1 Lesser yellowlegs in this spot. And I had a Wilson's Snipe there yesterday evening. Shorebirds don't always stay in this field for very long, and it can be difficult to see all the birds from the road (because there's a bit of a rise in the field, between the road and the shallow area with puddles where the birds congregate). But it may be worth a check anytime one is in the neighborhood. Good birding, tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@gmail.com -- 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/ --
