[cayugabirds-l] Yellowlegs
2 greater yellowlegs in the creek at Myers. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Yellowlegs at Jennings Pond
Hi everyone, This morning I found a pair of what I believe to be greater yellowlegs at Jennings Pond. They are sitting on the beaver lodge in the NW corner of the pond (the end nearer to Bald Hill Rd). The plumage is dark but they have yellow (not green) legs and showed white rump patches when flushed from the pond edge at Bald Hill Rd. The bills look slightly upturned, so I'm thinking these are greater rather than lesser yellowlegs. The birds were still there when I left the pond a few minutes ago. So if you are in the Danby area, feel free to check them out. For what it is worth, there's also a pied-billed grebe paddling around the same corner of the pond. Happy birding, Kevin -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Yellowlegs
I spent a half hour at Myers this morning, watching the lake and hoping for a flight of Bonaparte’s Gulls. There was a strong southerly breeze, and not much going on. The gull numbers were way down from the past few days, but there was one juvenile Iceland Gull chasing a Herring Gull with a stick in its mouth. All of a sudden I heard a “tew-tew-tew” call, repeated twice, as an unseen GREATER YELLOWLEGS flew over headed north. I looked all around to see if it had landed anywhere. But, apparently, it was just passing through and checking (with its call) to see if there were any mates on the spit. It is only three days early from the mean/median date on Matt Medler’s 2000 - 2009 list so definitely one of the expected birds for this week. Bob McGuire -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Yellowlegs
I spotted a Greater Yellowlegs on mud at the west end of the rte 31 causeway across the mucklands around noon. There was also a large Calidris-type sandpiper, probably Pectoral Sandpiper -Geo Kloppel -- 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/ --
