Yesterday I saw an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER at Ford Hill in Lansing, where they have been for several years now. I already reported the Least and Semipalmated sandpipers on Myers Point, but I also saw a late male AMERICAN WIGEON in Fall Creek, three PURPLE MARTINS (including a female carrying nesting material from Myers across to the west side of the lake where they nest), and an adult Bald Eagle that caught a large fish in the mouth of Fall Creek and also headed west across the lake with it, pursued by Ring-billed Gulls.
Last night I spent some time with Matt Medler and some other friends at Stewart Park. At 8:45 or so I spotted at least two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS moving quite distantly along the ridge on the west side of the lake. This morning, Andrew VanNorstrand and I had a singing WORM-EATING WARBLER above the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve and a singing ACADIAN FLYCATCHER in the forest south of Station Road in West Danby. As I mentioned a few days ago, ALDER and WILLOW FLYCATCHERS seem to me tobe in better numbers this year than they have been lately. I have heard one or both species in 10+ locations already this year, including Dryden Lake, several places in the Ithaca Airport area, Fidlers Pond, King Road, Downtown Dryden, Myers Point, Hawthorn Orchard, Sapsucker Woods, Hile School Road, and Ford Hill. Good birding! -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
