Greetings, I spent a couple hours at Myers again this morning. Highlights included fly over WHIMBREL and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. Both birds were quite high and I don't think I would have seen them if they had not been calling. In fact, I never could find the plover in the bright blue sky even though it called several (8 - 9?) times. From the sound of it, the plover continued down the lake. The Whimbrel was at least 1000 feet up, circled once high up and then continued to the ESE heading over land.
The other highlight was a couple of Red-breasted Nuthatches. Until this fall I had not seen or heard this species form the point itself, and I have now seen three this fall. This along with reports from Long Island, Cape May (Tom Johnson) suggest a nice movement this year. I also had a few Purple Finches, Cedar Waxwings and Bobolinks fly over. Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
