There continues to be lots of shorebirds at Montezuma. The Knox-Marcellus Marsh is a very impressive show, especially for an inland location. Also, the pool next to the Refuge headquarters has prime habitat for shorebirds as well. Saturday, the latter pool held mostly just yellowlegs (a few Greater and many Lesser) with a few Least and 1 White-rumped Sandpipers and some Semi. Plovers. The birds are much closer at this pool than Knox-Marcellus and something special could certainly show up there.
Here is the list of shorebirds reported at Knox-Marcellus (we missed the Black-bellied Plovers and Buff-breasted Sandpipers, which may not have been seen after mid-afternoon): Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover - 1 (found late in the day from East Road) Semipalmated Plover - many Killdeer - a few Greater Yellowlegs - a few Lesser Yellowlegs - abundant Solitary Sandpiper - I heard of no reports but I suspect one or more were seen Spotted Sandpiper - ditto Semipalmated Sandpiper - many Least Sandpiper - many White-rumped Sandpiper - a few to several Baird's Sandpiper - just a couple Pectoral Sandpiper - a few Stilt Sandpiper - a few to several BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER - 2 Dowitchers - several, probably both species Wilson's Snipe - 2 Wilson's Phalarope - 8 (the observer was cautiously second-guessing himself, as these birds were not seen later) RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - 4 Also, from East Road at the end of the day, we had 7 adult SANDHILL CRANES, five of which were in the northwest corner of Knox-Marcellus. An immature PEREGRINE FALCON harassed the shorebirds at the marsh occasionally, throughout the day. Good shorebirding! Willie ---------------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY dannapotterATroadrunner.com http://www.betsypottersart.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
