After dipping on Purple Sandpiper at Fair Haven, Jim Tarolli and I hit the Colvin Marsh spot on Rte 89 just south of the MAC. Highlight was 7 Long-billed Dowitchers (I really wondered about one of them) and 1-2 White-rumped Sandpipers. Also a few Pipits and a good number of Dunlin. We did not see any swallows and could not find Stilt Sandpiper or any of the small peeps. Shorebirds were up to their feathers in water and bills under water most of the time too. We headed over to Knox-Marsellus Marsh to watch the goose/duck/gull/Sandhill Crane roost flight. Aside from 17 Sandhill Cranes, the highlight was a handsome pale-brown-bodied Canada Goose. Many geese were in the farm fields rather than flying in. A good buildup of gulls by dusk. We didn't look all that carefully at the many ducks.
David Wheeler N. Syracuse, NY Fair Haven SP, Cayuga, US-NY Oct 28, 2013 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.7.1 23 species Brant 3 Canada Goose 2 Mute Swan 22 Greater Scaup 6 Ruddy Duck 10 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 45 Greater Yellowlegs 4 Dunlin 5 Bonaparte's Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 30 Herring Gull 30 Great Black-backed Gull 5 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 5 Brown Creeper 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Snow Bunting 25 Montezuma Colvin Marsh (NMWMA), Wayne, US-NY Oct 28, 2013 4:40 PM - 5:10 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.7.1 16 species Green-winged Teal 20 Great Blue Heron 2 Sandhill Crane 3 Greater Yellowlegs 5 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Dunlin 20 White-rumped Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 7 Wilson's Snipe 1 Northern Flicker 1 American Robin 2 European Starling 5 American Pipit 10 Swamp Sparrow 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Montezuma NWR Knox-Marsellus Marsh, Seneca, US-NY Oct 28, 2013 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Protocol: Stationary Comments: <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.7.1 22 species Snow Goose 50 Canada Goose 1000 Trumpeter Swan 15 Mallard 5 Northern Pintail X Common Merganser 5 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 2 Northern Harrier 1 American Coot 2 Sandhill Crane 17 Greater Yellowlegs 4 Pectoral Sandpiper 40 Ring-billed Gull 100 Herring Gull 30 Great Black-backed Gull 3 Northern Flicker 1 European Starling X Song Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X -- 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/ --
