Ann Mitchell & I went to Montezuma today seeking various marsh birds. We were among several people who looked carefully in the S part of the Carncross impoundment where it was seen yesterday evening but did not see the Marbled Godwit this morning. However it was in a couple of eBird reports in the mid-afternoon with frustratingly few details for a rare bird report as to where it was observed, what it was doing, and how it was distinguished from other shorebirds with long a upturned bill such as Greater Yellowlegs or Hudsonian Godwit.
We found a Pectoral Sandpiper, but it was very difficult to see in the very SW corner of the Carncross impoundment, viewed from the W end of the S dike. Sora was whinnying from several locations, including Carncross and Deep Muck. American Bittern was singing “unk-a-lunk” from Van Dyne Spoor Rd. A treat that I feared we had missed for the year was the breeding plumage male Eurasian Wigeon scoped south from the turnaround at the end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd in open water between muskrat mounds near a group of resting Double-crested Cormorants. High over Tschache Pool we scoped several Black Terns pretty far away. Pied-billed Grebes and American Coots and Common Gallinules and Marsh Wrens and Swamp Sparrows are all singing. Lots of Caspian Terns are flying about. Enjoy Spring! - - Dave Nutter -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
