SORA Still there at 6:30 pm. What a pretty little bird! Michele ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
> On Aug 28, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Suan Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Having not come up to Montezuma for way too long, I dragged myself out of bed > to get here early. In the first marshy channel to the left along the drive, I > soon found with the help of my infrared camera a sora foraging just in the > shadows of the reeds, never really coming out in the open until eventually it > ran across the channel to the same side as the road but no longer visible. As > I panned my infrared camera around I saw a shape at mid-level of the cattails > which turned out to be a least bittern, who walked briefly across the reeds > about three feet off the surface before flying across and into some deeper > reeds. At Eaton Marsh there was an American Bittern foraging perhaps 30 feet > away. When I pulled over to photograph it, it froze, pointed up, swayed like > the wind, then decided the jig was up and walked away into invisibility. > > There were yellowlegs and at least one peep-ish shorebird at Seneca Flats, > but lacking patience with the backlighting and inability to scope from the > car, I didn't spend much time there. > > Lots of young gallinule and coots and pb grebes. > > Suan > _____________________ > http://suan-yong.com > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
