I'd like to echo Chris' comments and pleas for birders to concentrate on a
specific
area over the long term. We see many of the same things that Chris is reporting
and
can add very early appearances of northern species like Yellow-bellied
Flycatcher.
We start fall banding around 4 July for this
This evening on my way home I stopped briefly at the pond on the east side
of Rt. 38 south of Dryden (between Bridle Lane and Crystal Drive) and had a
GREAT EGRET in the back with a few Great Blue Herons. It was not there when
I returned ten minutes later, however. The only shorebirds in
