You also have to remember that "spring" migration begins in the heart of
winter...February...
for what it is worth.
From: Dave Nutter
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Sent: Tue, July 5, 2011 12:30:28 PM
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Willet at Fair Haven, Sunday
It may be disheartening to think we are barely past the solstice, yet people are already talking about fall migration, but it's true. Shorebirds are already starting south, or at least dispersing after breeding. Other birds are as well, but the shorebirds are more obvious. I think it was generou
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I had a very similar experience on Saturday evening, July 2, but over in
Presque Isle SP on Lake Erie -- while vacationing with my family I spotted a
WILLET with some Ring-billed Gulls on one of the swimming beaches. I'm pretty
sure mine was an adult bird, so not the same individual but part of