Sadly, circumstances prevented me from attending yesterday's dike walk, but today's list of 15-16 shorebirds was still a great haul, considering only 2 pairs of eyes and not 30. Most significantly, we missed the flock (!) of White-rumped Sandpipers mentioned in yesterday's report. After leaving Towpath Road, we spent a few minutes on East Road, hoping to pick up what we had missed, but it was still too early in the day for the light to be right.
Pat Martin emartin...@earthlink.net > >Montezuma NWR--Knox-Marsellus Marsh, Seneca, US-NY >Sep 1, 2014 8:50 AM - 11:32 AM >Protocol: Stationary >Comments: joined by Micky Salingo >38 species (+1 other taxa) > >Canada Goose 162 >Mallard 18 >Blue-winged Teal 4 >Green-winged Teal 4 >dabbling duck sp. 30 estimate of those too far to ID >Hooded Merganser 21 >Double-crested Cormorant 92 >Great Blue Heron 27 >Great Egret 51 >Northern Harrier 1 multiple passes of presumably a single bird >Black-bellied Plover 5 >American Golden-Plover 4 >Semipalmated Plover 9 >Killdeer 30 estimate >Greater Yellowlegs 5 >Lesser Yellowlegs 40 estimate >Hudsonian Godwit 2 foraging together, continuing birds >Ruddy Turnstone 1 >Stilt Sandpiper 2 Micky only >Sanderling 2 >Baird's Sandpiper 2 in a flock of peeps that ventured close enough for ID >Least Sandpiper 200 estimate, probably low >Pectoral Sandpiper 2 >Semipalmated Sandpiper 200 estimate, probably low >Short-billed Dowitcher 40 exact count, two passes >Wilson's Phalarope 1 >Ring-billed Gull 131 >Herring Gull 9 >Caspian Tern 18 >Peregrine Falcon 1 >Red-eyed Vireo 1 along Towpath Road >American Crow 2 along Towpath rd >Barn Swallow 10 estimate >Black-capped Chickadee 2 on Towpath Rd >American Robin 2 on Towpath Rd >Gray Catbird 1 >Cedar Waxwing 2 >Northern Cardinal 1 on Towpath Rd >American Goldfinch 7 > >View this checklist online at >http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19642653 > >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/ --
