Hi all, I know a lot of us were curious where the Red Knot that Kevin and Lee Ann found at Myers Point on 28 July 2013 was banded. I entered it into the shorebird banding database and was able to view where this bird was seen before.
It was apparently banded on 2 Sep 2009 at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in extreme eastern Massachusetts. It was seen through 22 Oct 2009 in the same area, then not seen again until the next year. On 15 Aug 2010 it was seen at North Beach Island, Massachusetts, then on 1 Sep 2010 back at Monomoy, where it continued until at least 29 Oct 2010. The next year it was seen in the spring as well, on 19 May 2011 at Kimbles Beach near Cape May, New Jersey. It continued along the bayshore here for at least a week, then was resighted at Little Sipson Island, Massachusetts (a bit north of Monomoy) on 2 Aug 2011, then on 24 Aug 2011 it was back at Monomoy, where it was once again seen through October. Last year it was seen on 21-30 Mar 2012 at Kiawah Island in South Carolina but was not reported all fall. This year it was seen in the Kimbles Beach area in New Jersey from 27-30 May 2013 and not reported again until we saw it here on Cayuga Lake on 28 Jul 2013. Here is a photo of the bird, for those of you who didn't see it or want to be reminded: https://picasaweb.google.com/111137855303614931880/Summer2013#5905860110729828098 Pretty cool! I wish we could find out that much information on ALL the vagrants we see here. Cheers, -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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/ --
