Celeste Morien, Betsy, and I checked several fields in these two counties today. By far the best spot was the Elba Mucklands, where we saw over 250 shorebirds. This is actually a flooded turf farm. This is the most shorebirds I have seen in Western New York in about five years. In addition, on Blair Rd near the Hamlet of Shelby, a flooded cabbage field held a few more shorebirds and waterfowl. Our lists and the locations of these two sites follow.
Elba Mucklands - located at Muck Rd (a gravel road) on the west side of Rt 98 in the Town of Elba, Genesee County. This road is a little north of Ridge Rd and not far from the Orleans County line. Pied-billed Grebe 1 Mallard 4 Wood Duck 20 Green-winged Teal 4 Killdeer - a few Semi. Plover 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 160 Solitary Sandpiper 10 Stilt Dandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 13 Semi. Sandpiper 25 Least Sandpiper 46 Blair Rd, Hamlet of Shelby - located on the south side of Blair Rd about 1/2 mile west of Rt 63 in the Town of Shelby, Orleans County. Canada Goose 15 Mallard 6 Green-winged Teal 2 Blue-winged Teal 2 Hooded Merganser 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 25 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Good birding! Willie ---------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY dannapotterATroadrunner.com http://www.betsypottersart.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
