The bridge in question on Armitage Road is the large, metal, one-lane bridge over the Erie Canal.  To the west of it at the end of the guardrails there is a small gravel pull-off.  The Prothonotary Warblers are immediately west of here, generally one male in the swamp on the north side and one male in the swamp on the south, and they chase each other low over the road.  (I was confused by the references to the "first bridge" or "easternmost" bridge, when I included the small bridge over the small canal near sometimes flooded fields and the Bald Eagle nest.)
--Dave Nutter

On May 29, 2011, at 05:12 PM, Mark Chao <[email protected]> wrote:

Lyn Jacobs and I just had an exchange about the Prothonotary Warblers on Armitage Road.  See below for location information straight from her.

 

Mark

 

 

 

Hi Mark,

 

I do not think my location balloons in ebird are in the exact location so, to clarify....

 

From Rt 89N and then west on Armitage, most of the Prothonotary activity was about 30 feet west of the fishing access parking on the west side of the first bridge. We did also hear them on the east side of the bridge.

 

Lyn

 

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:18 PM, chao.mark <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Lyn,

I have taken the liberty of reporting your excellent finds to the Cayugabirds list.  Please see below.  Congratulations!!

All the best,
Mark Chao





From: Mark Chao [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 7:12 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Two or three Prothonotary Warblers, Armitage Road, Sun 5/29

Lyn Jacobs has reported on both the Eatonbirds listserv and eBird that she and a group of seven others from the Eaton Birding Society found two male PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS singing loudly and chasing each other around Armitage Road on Sunday, on both sides of the road just west of Route 89 near the Seneca/Wayne county line.  She reports that they had another sighting of this species on the east side of the bridge.  Here are the map coordinates from Lyn's eBird report:

43.0198351,-76.7782974 (2 birds)
43.0232236,-76.7764091 (3 birds)

The group also found Cerulean Warblers at both Armitage Road and May's Point, and some Black-bellied Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, and Semipalmated Sandpipers along the Wildlife Drive.

Congratulations to Lyn and the EBS for these excellent finds!!  Good luck to those who go looking for these birds!

Mark Chao

 

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