Hi all, Ton and I were at the far end of Railroad Rd. at 8 pm on Thursday and heard an AMERICAN BITTERN calling, saw 3 MOORHENS, 1 COOT, 1 PIED BILLED GREBE and watched 25+ BLACK TERNS feeding and flying along the water's surface along with hundreds of TREE and BARN SWALLOWS. It was quite amazing! After Railroad Rd., we went over to Marten's Tract where we heard many, many MARSH WRENS singing. This was all part of our 'big day' of birding which started at 4 am and finished at May's Point at 9 pm. Our total for the day was 134 species, including 21 or 22 warbler species. Other highlights included a pair of CANADA WARBLERS, one HOODED WARBLER and several WINTER WRENs along Shindagin Hollow Rd. and two BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS at Sapsucker Woods I'll post a list over the weekend with more details of our route. It was a great day of birding! Some disappointing misses included no cuckoos at all, not ONE indigo bunting, no red-breasted nuthatches, and a miss on cerulean warbler (we got to May's Point too late I'm afraid - but we did pick up a PALM WARBLER there). . Laura
Laura Stenzler Lab Manager Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, New York 14850 Office: (607) 254 2141 Lab: (607) 254 2142 Fax: (607) 254 2486 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bob mcguire Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:36 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma Today I also birded through Montezuma today, mainly to take some more site photos. There were two items of interest. After checking Tschache and Mays Point Pools for BLACK TERNS (none), I finally ran across two of them at Railroad Road. The gravel road is still flooded, requiring either knee boots or a walk along the RR tracks. The breakwater at Castelli's Marina in Union Springs was host to 13 COMMON TERNS, some of which were banded. Bob McGuire -- 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/ -- -- 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/ --
