( 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
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