This morning I was in the right place at the right time as a transitional FRANKLIN'S GULL dropped onto the spit at Myers Point for half an hour to preen before heading back out onto the lake. It has not been reported again. https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S69964335
This evening I checked a couple of spots on the east side of Cayuga Lake. The sandbar at the mouth of Paines Creek was rather quieter than usual, while the breakwall at the Frontenac Marina in Union Springs was finally seeing some activity, with 40+ Bonaparte's Gulls, 30+ Common Terns, and a Forster's Tern. No sign of the Franklin's at either location, however. The main pool at Montezuma NWR is getting low and the southwestern quadrant as viewed from the tower has several thousand shorebirds today, the first significant concentrations of the spring season. Reports this morning included WHIMBREL, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, and STILT SANDPIPER. I haven't had much luck picking things out from the throngs of Semipalmated Sandpipers in poor light this evening, but I did just find a little pack of 4 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES out along the mudflats. Jay -- 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/ --
