The Cayuga Bird Club has recently upgraded the receivers at our Motus stations at Myers Park in Lansing and at Mount Pleasant. (Thanks so much to Bryant Dossman for his expert help!) We have had three detections of migratory birds at Myers Park in the past two weeks.
Last night the Myers Park receiver picked up an EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL, at approximately 10:45 pm. The bird was tagged in Maine on June 11, 2024, part of the Maine Nightjar Monitoring Project, and was subsequently detected at Bennington College in Vermont on September 23, before flying by Myers Point. We don't often find Whip-poor-wills in our area, and it is exciting to know that this one flew over (detected for 1 minute 17 sec). The Myers Park Motus station also detected a Northern Waterthrush (tagged in Venezuela last spring) on September 14, and a Chestnut-sided Warbler, tagged near Montreal, the following night. It will be interesting to follow the paths of these migratory birds as they make their way south! To learn more about Cayuga Bird Club's Motus project, go to www.cayugabirdclub.org/motus. [Note: I tried to send this message earlier today, but it didn't go through, so I've removed links to the motus migration maps for these birds in case that was the problem.] Diane Morton Cayuga Bird Club -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
