I have just recognized and corrected an error I made on the 2016 CLB First Records list. My apologies. The Eastern Whip-poor-will in the town of Virgil is OUTSIDE the basin. I am not aware of any Whip-poor-will so far this year in the basin. Although the location was correct, Woodchuck Hill Rd near Gridley Creek on the north side of NYS-392 east of the hamlet of Virgil, and indeed this rare bird has been heard several times, I was mixing up the road name with a different road much closer to 'downtown' Virgil, Holler Rd, which is near a different stream that is the eastern edge the Cayuga Lake watershed. Gridley Creek drains into the Tioughnioga River which goes south.
--Dave Nutter On May 30, 2016, at 08:06 PM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: I think I have the 2016 Cayuga Lake Basin First Records list up to date again: http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records Eastern Whip-poor-will is another odd case. Brad Walker & Jay McGowan saw one in their headlights along Bald Hill Road in Danby while doing a basin big day. However the location on their eBird report drains into Michigan Hollow where topo lines show that valley drains south to the Susquehanna, so it is out of the Cayuga Lake Basin. On the other hand Jeffrey Smith reported hearing one in Virgil at the very edge of the Basin but along a creek which clearly does drain to Cayuga Lake. It's a pretty obvious sound, so I'm not sure why it hasn't been confirmed on eBird yet. -- 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/ --
