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 > > -- > Jay McGowan > Macaulay Library > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > jw...@cornell.edu <mailto:jw...@cornell.edu> > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <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/ --
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