I was at Montezuma today restocking Cayuga Bird Club bird guides and native plants books; so I went birding afterward, and here is what I saw:
Visitor Center, 2:30-3:00 TREE SWALLOWS, PURPLE MARTINS, CANADA GOOSE, GREAT BLUE HERON, STARLINGS, RED WING BLACKBIRDS, and possible WHITE-WINGED SCOTER(?) flyby (duck shape, large white patch on wing, white patch on face, not sure). Walked the trail preceding Wildlife Drive, 3:00-3:30 2 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, 1 possible jouvenile TREE SPARROW(?) not calling, so I wasn't sure, had rufous head, grey streaks above eyes, streaks on chest, no black patch on chest. COMMON YELLOW THROAT, 3 EASTERN KINGBIRDS elegantly dipping to water and back to rest on tall grass and in tree tops. Heard OVENBIRD, saw YELLOW WARBLER, HAIRY WOODPECKER, 1 BALD EAGLE on dirt mound Wildlife Drive, 3:30-5:00PM CANADA GEESE on nests and many with goslings along roadside, 1 OSPREY caught something dark and large in water, 5+ GREAT BLUE HERONS (1 looked very young, have they fledged? all checking out the huge CARP), MALLARDS, and many ducks out too far to see, 2 BLUE-WINGED TEALS (male and female), 8+GREATER AND LESSER YELLOW LEGS (some with bill 2x size of head and others with 1.5x head), possible SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS, and 10+LEAST SANDERLINGS (I think that is what they were based on what I saw on the SFO Cape May trip last week), 1 KILLDEER, 1 lone female WOOD DUCK (then saw three more way farther down the road, two of which were male and one was female), 1 CANVASBACK, many many MOORHEN cackling like chickens, 1 possible HARLEQUIN (white line on wing with white cheek circle), 3 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 1 female EURASIAN WIDGEON (white speculum, black butt) May's Pool, 5:15-5:30pm I went to look/listen for the RED-HEADED WOODPECKER; but, sadly, did not find it. The Visitor Center volunteers were all a buzz about it, hoping the female would show up soon!!! * * * * * * * * * *"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) * Sandra (Sandy) Wold Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map, Author, Originator, Designer, and Publisher, www.sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ <https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/> Interdisciplinary Artist/Educator, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-sandy-wold/a7/114/877 -- 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/ --
