Although I imagine I'll look back on this summer as the "summer I spent looking for the Curlew Sandpiper" I'll try to post some other birds from yesterday's visit to Montezuma. At Towpath Rd. I heard BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, PILEATED WOODPECKER, VEERY, and a singing YELLOW-THROATED VIREO. A SORA was walking around underneath the cattails. The wildlife drive held little of interest save seventeen LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and an adult GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL at the visitor center.
Martens Tract now has algae mats that support small numbers of peeps. If you walk east past the pond to there is a dried up bog with a good mix of ducks and shorebirds. The highlight here for me was my first Cayuga County SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. A chickadee flock on Van Dyne Spoor Rd. had a male CERULEAN WARBLER and the first fall record (in eBird) of CANADA WARBLER for Wayne County. An evening visit to Towpath turned up many of the same birds as in the morning, the most exciting addition a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO that glided past and posed cooperatively for photos and video. http://www.flickr.com/photos/seabamirum/7865726560/lightbox/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/seabamirum/7865565036/lightbox/ eBird Checklists: Towpath: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11436974 Visitor Center: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11437321 Marten's Tract: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11438004 Van Dyne Spoor Rd: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11438297 -- Tim Lenz t...@cornell.edu Web Applications Developer Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- 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/ --
