I was talking to Reuben Stoltzfus today. He often calls when he suspects he has found a new species for the Cayuga Lake Basin for the year, and he is often the first to find an Upland Sandpiper at their traditional site, the Lott Farm (access by permission). It’s located at the south edge of Seneca Falls, east of NYS-414 and north of Martin Road near the Finger Lakes Regional Airport. We’re a couple weeks overdue for Upland Sandpiper, and he hadn’t reported, and I know he’s busy, so I asked if he had been looking. Yes, he has been looking but not finding any. Last year he only saw 1, and eBird only has 2021 reports from there of a singe bird from April 18-26. It’s looking like maybe that last remaining reliable location in the Basin for breeding Upland Sandpipers may have died out. Keep your eyes and ears open, both there and at any large grassland area. We may only have them as migrants, if at all, from now on. Meanwhile, although I haven’t been there, I assume the Lott Farm is still good for lots (!) of other grassland species.
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