I met Chris Wood, Jessie Barry, and visiting British birder Mark Avery at Myer's Point this morning. There was a nice diversity of shorebirds on the gravel spit -- 3 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 1 DUNLIN, 1 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, sev. LEAST SANDPIPERS, SPOTTED, and 2 flyover SOLITARY SANDPIPERS. Lots of BANK, BARN and a few N. ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS over the lake, plus a single CLIFF SWALLOW with Banks on the wires over the marina.
4 more SOLITARY SANDPIPERS flew over near the park entrance, which also had a nice selection of migrants including 2 TENNESSEE, 2 BAY-BREASTED, and a BLACKPOLL WARBLER. >From there we headed up Salmon Creek to the Finger Lakes Land Trust bird >sanctuary. Although some breeders were clearly not in yet, we had quite a few >migrants, including several singing CANADA WARBLERS, BLACKBURNIAN, >BLACK-THROATED GREEN, and MAGNOLIA. Back at home, a SWAINSON'S THRUSH was singing softly in the rain in the backyard spruces, adding to my list of boreal migrants this spring -- I always get Swainson's as a nocturnal migrant in spring and fall, but it was nice to hear one in the yard. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) [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/ --
