> Symbolically , we missed staked out brids such as Screech Owl at two > locations, Sora Rail, Black and White Warbler., the Glossy Ibis, or > Tri-colored Heron, Orchard Oriole at two locations, yet we were at 100 > species before driving into Montezuma.
Monday, 6 May, was much too early for the biggest day of the year with, e.g., no Red-eyed Vireos, no Willow, Alder, wood pewee, no Bay-breasted or Blackpool warblers. More yellow-bellied sapsuckers than I ever remember, 3 or 4 Barred Owl in Shindagin calling spontaneously where it was 39 F for a couple hours, Blackburnian, Black-throated Blue warblers, and Golden-crowned Kinglet at Star-Stanton and Cannon Rds, three Solitary Sandpipers at Goetchius with a Northern Waterthrush in the far back left from the parking lot/bridge. The beautiful Wilson's Phalarope was still associating with a Greater Yellowlegs while making me dizzy with her endless right-turn circles (our thanks to the related postings). The last bird of the day was a Rough-winged Swallow. Driving home down the west side of the lake, we commented that was a species we should have gotten. I mentioned that they nested in the shale cliffs of some of the gorges and Stefan said lets stop on Taughannoch. We were parked and out of the car and up the bridge for less that 15 seconds when one flew by, turned around and darted upward to chase an insect and at the apex of the climb, very briefly came to a stop showing his dirty throat. I don't generally like to check and run, but we were tired and we we were back in the (perhaps illegally parked) car in less than 30 seconds with our 130th species for the day! On big days, I always feel that the species we found were deserved due to skill and effort and that the ones we missed were just bad luck. Even with a date that was too early and the bad luck on staked out species, we had a really great and very satisfying day. Good birding, John -- 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/ --
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