Locations: Montezuma Audubon Center, Hogback Rd., Tyre--Rt. 89 S of Armitage, May's Point--Rt. 89 over canal, Mays Point Pool, Tschache, North Spring Pool, LaRue's Lagoon, East Road (very poor lighting conditions at East Rd.) Notes: sunny, hazy, warm/very warm; ~8-11 am Number of species: 34 (starlings omitted)
Canada Goose 140 cumulative total Trumpeter Swan 14 = 5 (north MAC pond) + 6 (Hogback Rd.) + 3 (Tschache Pool) Mallard X Pied-billed Grebe 8 mostly juveniles (May's Point Pool - platform) Double-crested Cormorant ~30 Great Blue Heron 121 = 1 (north pond edge) + 3 (canal) + 5 (Tschache) + 110 (Knox-M) + 2 Great Egret 11 together; May's Point Pool Turkey Vulture 7 cumulative estimate for the trip; 3 in field east side of Rt. 89 at goose hunting farm Osprey 3 Bald Eagle 3 immatures (Knox-Marsellus) Red-tailed Hawk 1 on wire beside Wiley Rd. south of intersection (where Hogback changes names) Common Moorhen 3 at least 1 immature (May's Point Pool - platform) SANDHILL CRANE 5 all full-size; 3 took off together and then the other 2 left; Rt. 89 S of Armitage Killdeer 2 Solitary Sandpiper 2 decent looks; North Spring Pool Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 5 scattered; flew before we could see the bills shorebirds X Ring-billed Gull ~20 far Caspian Tern 12 mostly over Tschache pool and vicinity Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 buzzed by Belted Kingfisher 1 flying, rattling Mays Point Pool (and viewing platform) Empidonax sp. 1 pale yellow belly, wing bars, little or no eye ring; immature Willow? Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird 1 edge of Clyde River from platform parking area American Crow 15 Purple Martin 16 on martin house; MAC Tree Swallow 4+ Barn Swallow 6 American Robin 3 Cedar Waxwing 6 total; flitting around, seldom staying put Song Sparrow 3 Swamp Sparrow 1 heard (not seen) on west side Rt. 89 Red-winged Blackbird 5 estimated Baltimore Oriole 1 immature on the Swamp Rose-mallow, west side of auto tour road American Goldfinch 3 Compiled from reports generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org) [no idea where extra spaces come from when I cut & paste] -- Dave Spier, Doug Cameron, et al Montezuma Birding Trail: http://montezumabirding.webs.com Eaton Birding Society: http://eatonbirds.webs.com/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
