After seeing some good waterbird movement on Onondaga Lake yesterday I was hoping to make it to Myers this morning so see what might be moving through in the wake of yesterday's favorable winds. I never made it to Myers, but Andrew Van Norstrand and I did walk around Hog Hole mid-morning to look for Nelson's and anything else we could find. Lots of people were out doing the same, but as far as I know no one was successful finding the sparrow. We did have a MARSH WREN in the northwest corner where one has been for a couple of weeks. The other highlight was several groups of migrating waterfowl: ~50 Green-winged Teal, 54 Northern Pintail, 65 Northern Pintail with four WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS mixed in (!), and a group of 36 BRANT. Stewart Park was quiet, with the highlight being three NORTHERN SHOVELERS (one an interesting transitional male) at the east end, a female LESSER SCAUP, and a male GREATER (I believe) SCAUP flying around with a Green-winged Teal flock. Checklists (with pictures, eventually): http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15334517 http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15334514
Yesterday before going over to Syracuse for the tern, I spent several hours on Towpath Road at Montezuma. I saw most of what Mark Miller reported (though missed the Ross's Goose), as well a few shorebirds: 1 continuing juvenile HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 2+ Black-bellied Plovers (juveniles), 2+ American Golden-Plovers (juveniles), 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 2 Baird's Sandpipers, increasing numbers of Dunlin, lots of Pectoral Sandpipers, and Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover. Nine Bonaparte's Gulls were out on the flats as well. Checklist (again, pictures to come at some point): http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15329829 On the way back down the lake in the evening I checked a few spots for Arctic Terns. No luck with that, but I did have two COMMON TERNS at Harris Park in Cayuga and another Common Tern on the pier at Frontenac Marina. -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [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/ --
