Sadly, circumstances prevented me from attending yesterday's dike walk, but today's list of 15-16 shorebirds was still a great haul, considering only 2 pairs of eyes and not 30. Most significantly, we missed the flock (!) of White-rumped Sandpipers mentioned in yesterday's report. After leaving Towpath Road, we spent a few minutes on East Road, hoping to pick up what we had missed, but it was still too early in the day for the light to be right.
Pat Martin [email protected] > >Montezuma NWR--Knox-Marsellus Marsh, Seneca, US-NY >Sep 1, 2014 8:50 AM - 11:32 AM >Protocol: Stationary >Comments: joined by Micky Salingo >38 species (+1 other taxa) > >Canada Goose 162 >Mallard 18 >Blue-winged Teal 4 >Green-winged Teal 4 >dabbling duck sp. 30 estimate of those too far to ID >Hooded Merganser 21 >Double-crested Cormorant 92 >Great Blue Heron 27 >Great Egret 51 >Northern Harrier 1 multiple passes of presumably a single bird >Black-bellied Plover 5 >American Golden-Plover 4 >Semipalmated Plover 9 >Killdeer 30 estimate >Greater Yellowlegs 5 >Lesser Yellowlegs 40 estimate >Hudsonian Godwit 2 foraging together, continuing birds >Ruddy Turnstone 1 >Stilt Sandpiper 2 Micky only >Sanderling 2 >Baird's Sandpiper 2 in a flock of peeps that ventured close enough for ID >Least Sandpiper 200 estimate, probably low >Pectoral Sandpiper 2 >Semipalmated Sandpiper 200 estimate, probably low >Short-billed Dowitcher 40 exact count, two passes >Wilson's Phalarope 1 >Ring-billed Gull 131 >Herring Gull 9 >Caspian Tern 18 >Peregrine Falcon 1 >Red-eyed Vireo 1 along Towpath Road >American Crow 2 along Towpath rd >Barn Swallow 10 estimate >Black-capped Chickadee 2 on Towpath Rd >American Robin 2 on Towpath Rd >Gray Catbird 1 >Cedar Waxwing 2 >Northern Cardinal 1 on Towpath Rd >American Goldfinch 7 > >View this checklist online at >http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19642653 > >This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- 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/ --
