Other shorebirds today at Mays Point Pool included a Baird's Sandpiper, at least 6 White-dumped Sandpipers, and lots of Least & Semipalmated Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs, plus a few Killdeer and Greater Yellowlegs, two Dowitcher, sp., and a Ruddy Turnstone. I also saw what I suspect was the juvenile Bonaparte's Gull in the distance, swimming and pecking at the water as a phalarope does. The shorebird habitat is now very good at Mays. Bob, Ann, & I also found lots of shorebirds but less variety at Puddler's: 8 juvenile Short-billed Dowitchers, and lots of Semipalmated Plovers, Semipalmated Sandpipers and Least Sandpipers. Larue's has some water water around the edges, but we saw few shorebirds there or at the (former) Shorebird Flats along the Wildlife Drive. Visitor Center had both Yellowlegs, and a few Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers.
--Dave Nutter Ithaca, NY On Aug 30, 2011, at 3:33 PM, 6072292...@vtext.com wrote: > cayugaRBA BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER & 2 AMER GOLDEN-PLOVERS, Mays Pt, back edge > to right, 3:15pm 30 Aug > --Dave Nutter > > -- > > 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/ > > -- -- 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/ --
