Sorry, that should have been a couple HUNDRED shorebirds. Sounds like numbers are down from last weekend, and the Main Pool has become too dry to host many shorebirds.
Also, the Burdick Hill, Lansing Grasshopper Sparrow continues to sing from the fields south of the road as of this morning, and the Cornell Campus Clay-colored Sparrow was still around as of last night. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Jay McGowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Gregg Dashnau reports a couple of thousand shorebirds continuing in > Knox-Marsellus Marsh this afternoon, including a pair of Wilson's > Phalaropes and 11 Ruddy Turnstones, as well as many Dunlin and other > expected species. > > If anyone happens to find any shorebirds closer to Ithaca, please be sure > to post. I have been striking out at Myers Point lately, although I did > have two Common Terns fly by again yesterday morning. Over here in > Northeast Ithaca, I have heard no reports of either the Red-headed > Woodpecker nor the Worm-eating Warbler last evening or so far today. > > > -- > Jay McGowan > Macaulay Library > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > [email protected] > -- 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/ --
