( A few additions to Dominic's post from our day yesterday. We found the previously reported male ring-neck on the north end of the main pool. Eaton also had a flock of a dozen least's along the muddy edge of the new portion. A snipe was reported by others with a few Yellowlegs at Benning marsh which has good habitat. Lesser yellowlegs were also scattered among the muskrat houses at may's point. 8 Great Egrets were in the pools along the thruway and 6 more at May's Point. The best bird at Knox was my first juvenile Caspian Tern of the season. The best spot was the pool at Howland's Island. I added the checklist from Howland's Island to Dominic's post below).
*** Mike Tetlow and I went to Montezuma NWR and then to Howland's Island yesterday. Know-Marsellus pond is almost dried up and we had only a couple of yellowlegs there. The cranes were not present in the afternoon when we arrived. There are some yellowlegs in the shorebird flats at the north end of the Wildlife Drive before the west turn. We went to Howland's Island and entered from the south end near the boat launch on the Seneca River. We walked to a pond on the road that is the first left turn from the main northbound entrance road, after crossing the bridge at the Seneca River. We saw 9 species of shorebirds in this pond including a single molting Stilt Sandpiper and had a good mix of passerines on our walk. -----Original Message----- From: ebird-checkl...@cornell.edu [mailto:ebird-checkl...@cornell.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 1:52 PM To: mjtet...@frontiernet.net Subject: eBird Report - Montezuma (NMWMA)--Howland Island--East, Jul 20, 2016 Montezuma (NMWMA)--Howland Island--East, Cayuga, New York, US Jul 20, 2016 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) Comments: Mike Tetlow and I walked in at the south end of Howland's Island and walked a loop, first north and then turned west past Goose Pond, then north, then east and back south. 49 species Canada Goose 22 Wood Duck 15 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 1 Bald Eagle 1 Killdeer 24 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 13 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 14 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 12 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Mourning Dove 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Downy Woodpecker 4 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Willow Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Marsh Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Eastern Bluebird 2 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 5 European Starling 30 Cedar Waxwing 15 Common Yellowthroat 4 American Redstart 1 Cerulean Warbler 1 1 female carrying food. Yellow Warbler 4 Song Sparrow 7 Swamp Sparrow 3 Scarlet Tanager 3 Northern Cardinal 2 Indigo Bunting 4 Red-winged Blackbird 3 American Goldfinch 7 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S30792483 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/ --