In addition to the usual birds at Montezuma (which happily include Prothonotary Warbler, Red-headed Woodpecker, Cerulean Warbler, Black Tern, and many others), Carncross was rife with shorebirds, including an estimated 400 DUNLIN, an amazing group of at least 45 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, approximately 19 RUDDY TURNSTONES, a breeding plumage SANDERLING, dozens of SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, at least two SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, and a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. The flooded field on Armitage still had a few shorebirds, as did the last pond on the Wildlife Drive, but the numbers and diversity and both places did not compare to Carncross. With reports of Red Knots on Oneida Lake today we had high hopes of picking one out of the flock, but no such luck. Also notable at Carncross were the lingering pair of NORTHERN PINTAIL, the first RED-NECKED GREBE I can recall seeing in a cornfield, and the SANDHILL CRANE pair with at least one colt.
This evening on a dusk walk around Monkey Run North, the most notable bird was an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER that sang from the low area on the left side of the trail about halfway to the where the trail descends to the river from the parking area. A little later I picked out two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS to the west from the hill at Sapsucker Woods. They were on the same trajectory (and equivalently distant, unfortunately) to two nighthawks Livia and I saw at Bluegrass Lane last night. -- 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/ --
