I went up to Seneca Falls early this morning to check out Dave Kennedy's hummingbird. It didn't take long for the bird to appear, and although it was wary of my presence, as Dave has noted, it came in to the feeder several times while I was there and spent a lot of time in a maple over the yard when it wasn't feeding. It also did some flycatching from this tree, and gave the typical ticking calls frequently. It looks good for a female-type Rufous. I didn't get any amazing pictures (not as good as the ones Dave posted yesterday) on this overcast morning, but I think I got enough on the tail to safely rule out Allen's. Here are a couple of shots: https://picasaweb.google.com/111137855303614931880/Fall2013#5935166830994639122 https://picasaweb.google.com/111137855303614931880/Fall2013#5935166841041876994 https://picasaweb.google.com/111137855303614931880/Fall2013#5935166947493776338
After that I checked Colvin Marsh just south of the Audubon Center in Savannah, which, as others have mentioned, currently holds a surprising diversity of shorebirds along the edges of the cattails: many Wilson's Snipe, many Greater and Lesser yellowlegs, 3+ Semipalmated Plovers, 3+ Least Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 6+ Dunlin, 3+ Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 1 STILT SANDPIPER, and 2 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. The Sandhill Crane Unit on Van Dyne Spoor has a large group of dabbling ducks way out in the vegetation near the beginning of the marsh, which today included a beautiful adult male EURASIAN WIGEON with large numbers of American Wigeon and Northern Pintail. Towpath Road offered nothing new, with continuing pelicans and about 200 Snow Geese, but no Ross's or godwits that I could see on a relatively quick scan. A chipping Lincoln's Sparrow in the cattails was the highlight of the land birding along the road. Good birding, Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
