I'm heading up to Montezuma NWR Sunday morning with Ann Mitchell to look for the Red Phalarope reported Saturday from Shorebird Flats along the Wildlife Drive. If anyone else finds it or hears a positive report, please call me: 607-229-2158, and I'll put it on the text-message Rare Bird Alert.
CayugaRBA RED PHALAROPE refound by Mark Miller, open water of shorebird flats,
wildlife dr, Montezuma NWR 8am.
--Dave Nutter
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The molting juvenile RED PHALAROPE is still at shorebird flats almost at the
bend in the wildlife drive. The GREATER WHITEFRONTED GOOSE (along with a
Snow x Canada hybrid) was still present at the visitor center earlier this
morning but was not present a few minutes ago.
Jay McGowan
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CayugaRBA HUDSONIAN GODWIT at Puddler's, sleeping among distant Green-winged
Teal in heat shimmer. GOOD LUCK!
--Dave Nutter
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The RED PHALAROPE was still being seen as of at least 2:30pm Sunday 09 October along the Wildlife Drive at Montezuma NWR. It was in the Shorebird Flats, an area on the left side near the end of the straightaway beyond the Main Pool. This area was very open last year, but this year through natural
This bird was first noticed by Kevin McGann then picked up by Chris Spagnoli (?), as a large shorebird preening among a crowd of Green-winged Teal beyond a strip of mud beyond a lot of vegetation in the northwest portion of Puddler's as viewed from a southeast vantage along Towpath road where the
I spent most of the day today at Montezuma. Kevin and I got there around
7:00. The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was with the Canadas at the Visitor
Center pool, as well as an apparent SNOW GOOSE x CANADA GOOSE HYBRID (white
head and underparts, brown Canada-like back and dark on flanks), but these
