Sure enough: Dave Nutter reports a RED KNOT at Armitage Road this morning, as well as a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at Carncross.
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Jay McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > -- 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/ --
