Hey all, Nice list, nice day. Wondering why the club doesn't lead any walks in the summer, especially with all this list chatter about how great the birding is at this time of the year.
Sapsucker Woods walks get a great turnout every week, each day of the weekend. Just a thought. Linda On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Laura Stenzler <l...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > Inspired by Kevin McGowan's and Lee Ann van Leer's big day of > breeding-time birding, Susan Danskin, Bob McGuire and I spent yesterday, > Sunday, finding as many bird species as we could between 3:40 am and dusk > (we started home at 8:40 pm). Our total for the day was 131 species, > including the Dickcissel at the Seneca Meadows Wetland preserve. (The list > is below). > We started at the P&C parking lot at the East Hill Plaza with our first > bird of the day - American Robin. We then headed to the Finger Lakes Land > Trust's Lindsay-Parson's Biodiversity Preserve in West Danby, arriving > before light. Our basic itinerary was then Deputron Hollow Rd., Shindagin > Hollow, FLLT's Park Preserve, Mount Pleasant, Sapsucker Woods, Airport, > Stewart Park, Salt Point and then up the lake on the east side, stopping at > Lettie Cook Forest along the way. At the north end, we first sought the > Upland Sandpipers at Lott Farm (missed), then Clay-colored Sparrow on King > Rd. (as previously reported), and then to all of the Montezuma and north > areas (Tschache Pool, Towpath Rd., Armitage Rd., Seneca Meadows Wetland > Preserve, Marten's Tract, Morgan Rd., Carncross Rd. - not necessarily in > this order) - finishing at Van Dyne Spoor Rd. as we watched an American > Bittern fly up and away from us. It was a long, at times hot but always > fun day of birding! > > Laura > > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > > Subject: eBird Report - New York, Jul 1, 2012 > > New York, US-NY > Jul 1, 2012 3:40 AM - 8:40 PM > Protocol: Traveling > 250.0 mile(s) > Comments: Susan Danskin, Bob McGuire, Laura Stenzler doing a "Big Day" > starting from Ithaca > 131 species > > Snow Goose > Canada Goose > Trumpeter Swan > Wood Duck > American Black Duck > Mallard > Green-winged Teal > Redhead > Common Merganser > Wild Turkey > Pied-billed Grebe > Double-crested Cormorant > American Bittern > Great Blue Heron > Great Egret > Green Heron > Black-crowned Night-Heron > Turkey Vulture > Osprey > Bald Eagle > Northern Harrier > Red-tailed Hawk > American Kestrel > Virginia Rail > Common Gallinule > American Coot > Semipalmated Plover > Killdeer > Spotted Sandpiper > Greater Yellowlegs > Lesser Yellowlegs > Semipalmated Sandpiper > Least Sandpiper > Short-billed Dowitcher > Ring-billed Gull > Herring Gull > Great Black-backed Gull > Caspian Tern > Black Tern > Rock Pigeon > Mourning Dove > Barred Owl > Chimney Swift > Ruby-throated Hummingbird > Belted Kingfisher > Yellow-bellied Sapsucker > Downy Woodpecker > Hairy Woodpecker > Northern Flicker > Pileated Woodpecker > Eastern Wood-Pewee > Alder Flycatcher > Willow Flycatcher > Least Flycatcher > Eastern Phoebe > Great Crested Flycatcher > Eastern Kingbird > Yellow-throated Vireo > Blue-headed Vireo > Warbling Vireo > Red-eyed Vireo > Blue Jay > American Crow > Common Raven > Horned Lark > Northern Rough-winged Swallow > Purple Martin > Tree Swallow > Bank Swallow > Barn Swallow > Black-capped Chickadee > Tufted Titmouse > Red-breasted Nuthatch > White-breasted Nuthatch > Brown Creeper > Carolina Wren > House Wren > Winter Wren > Marsh Wren > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher > Eastern Bluebird > Veery > Hermit Thrush > Wood Thrush > American Robin > Gray Catbird > Northern Mockingbird > Brown Thrasher > European Starling > Cedar Wawing > Ovenbird > Louisiana Waterthrush > Northern Waterthrush > Blue-winged Warbler > Black-and-white Warbler > Mourning Warbler > Common Yellowthroat > Hooded Warbler > American Redstart > Cerulean Warbler > Magnolia Warbler > Blackburnian Warbler > Yellow Warbler > Chestnut-sided Warbler > Black-throated Blue Warbler > Prairie Warbler > Black-throated Green Warbler > Canada Warbler > Eastern Towhee > Chipping Sparrow > Clay-colored Sparrow > Field Sparrow > Savannah Sparrow > Song Sparrow > Swamp Sparrow > Dark-eyed Junco > Scarlet Tanager > Northern Cardinal > Rose-breasted Grosbeak > Indigo Bunting > Dickcissel > Bobolink > Red-winged Blackbird > Eastern Meadowlark > Common Grackle > Brown-headed Cowbird > Orchard Oriole > Baltimore Oriole > House Finch > American Goldfinch > House Sparrow > > > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) > > -- > > 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/ --
