I took a visitor from France to Montezuma today, and we saw the following: --6 immature Bald Eagles (someone else there counted 15) --immature Red-tailed Hawk --killdeer, sandpiper, yellow leg --Common Gallinule and juveniles were everywhere! --Clapper Rails and juveniles (seemed also to be everywhere) --huge raft of Coots (about 150) --female Wood Duck --immature Blue-winged Teal (?) --2 willets? (flying and in the water, dark bill, white rump) --2 immature Caspian Terns and 3 adults --many juvenile Pied-billed Grebes
*---Sandy Wold* Author/Originator of Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map (for sale at Wegmans, Autumn Leaves, Cornell Book Store, Cornell Plantations, and Visitor's Bureau) *https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/about-author-and-artist <https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/about-author-and-artist>* www.Sandy-Wold.com <http://www.sandy-wold.squarespace.com/> *"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come ALIVE, for what the world needs is people who have come ALIVE." **- Dr. Howard Thurman, American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist (1900-1981) * -- 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/ --
