What an exceptionally great day. Thanks for taking the time to compile 
the observations.

John

On 5/10/2015 4:26 PM, Jay McGowan wrote:
> Livia and I had a fun day yesterday. We had a few setbacks: slow 
> migrant birding in Ithaca; missing some know stakeouts like Upland 
> Sandpiper, Rusty Blackbird, and Palm Warbler; almost no raptors 
> whatsoever, despite favorable winds and sun; and generally hot and 
> windy conditions all day. Even so, we had a good morning for breeders 
> and got most of our targets at Montezuma in the afternoon, so we were 
> able to end the day with 175 species.
>
> Highlights:
> --Challenging but decent night migration at home in Northeast Ithaca, 
> including an early GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT 
> THRUSH, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and VIRGINIA RAIL.
> --Good night birding, with over 10 AMERICAN WOODCOCK, EASTERN 
> SCREECH-OWL, BARRED OWL, and GREAT HORNED OWL.
> --Productive morning at Park Preserve and Hammond Hill, with 15 
> species of warblers and most of the essential forest birds like Ruffed 
> Grouse and Winter Wren, as well as Pine Siskin.
> --Slow going at Sapsucker Woods but a nice singing WILSON'S WARBLER on 
> the Wilson Trail.
> --Continuing CLAY-COLORED SPARROW on campus, not singing but quickly 
> found.
> --Lindsay-Parsons added WORM-EATING, BLACK-AND-WHITE, and HOODED 
> WARBLERS but little else, making it rather a time sink in the overall day.
> --Hot and windy at Stewart and Myers, but managed to pick out a LESSER 
> BLACK-BACKED GULL on the jetty and several ORCHARD ORIOLES singing 
> around Myers.
> --Despite challengingly shimmery lake conditions, we were able to find 
> BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a few lingering RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS off the 
> Aurora bluffs, as well as 14 COMMON and a single FORSTER'S TERN on the 
> marina breakwall in Union Springs.
> --An adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER on Lake Road just a few houses north 
> of Long Point State Park that flew across the road in front of us. An 
> awesome bird, if overall unhelpful for the day considering the 
> cooperative one at Mays Point (saving us all of about 30 seconds).
> --Continuing SNOW GOOSE at the Visitor Center.
> --Extensive mudflats on the Main Pool hosting almost 100 LESSER 
> YELLOWLEGS, 400+ LEAST SANDPIPERS, DUNLIN, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and 
> SEMIPALMATED PLOVER.
> --EURASIAN WIGEON, LESSER SCAUP, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED 
> DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, and all the expected dabblers at Montezuma. A male 
> COMMON GOLDENEYE is also apparently around, but we missed it.
> --Two GREAT EGRETS flying around Knox-Marsellus from East Road, as 
> well as BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS from Towpath at dusk.
> --Continuing PROTHONOTARY WARBLER on Armitage Road, singing as we 
> drove up.
> --Singing ORCHARD ORIOLES on Lake Road south of Aurora and Van Dyne 
> Spoor Road. One was also reported on the Wildlife Drive.
> --Two BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and lots of the same shorebirds in the 
> fields on Carncross Road.
>
> Our biggest misses were all Accipiters, Broad-winged and 
> Red-shouldered hawk, Rusty Blackbird, Palm Warbler, Upland Sandpiper, 
> American and Least bittern, many migrants that seemingly just showed 
> up today (Bay-breasted, Cape May, Blackpoll, Philadelphia Vireo, Alder 
> Flycatcher, cuckoos, and frustratingly White-crowned Sparrow), and 
> worst of all, Carolina Wren! With so much time spent in upland spots 
> in the morning, we didn't realize this was going to be a challenge 
> until it was too late. This morning I saw at least six species we 
> missed yesterday. Oh well. No sign of Friday's Glossy Ibis nor the 
> Little Blue Heron.
>
> Good birding,
> Jay
>
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> Jay McGowan
> Macaulay Library
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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