August 7 - At the Batavia Waste Water Treatment Plant: 7 Lesser Yellowlegs, 5 Wood Duck, 12 Spotted Sandpipers, 3 Northern Shovelers, 16 Ruddy Ducks, 2 Caspian Terns, 14 Bonaparte's Gulls, At least 8 Great Egrets (one with a red leg band that was eventually read) 3 Hooded Mergansers, Pied-billed Grebe, Green-winged Teal, and 3 American Blak Ducks. At Elba Mucklands - 2 Stilt Sandpipers, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, 8 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 20 Least Sandpipers, 70 Lesser Yellowlegs, 10 Blue-winged Teal, 3 Green-winged Teal, and 5 Solitary Sandpipers. Here are Chris Newton's exellent directions. Directions to: Elba Mucklands - located at Muck Rd (a gravel road) on the west side of Rt. 98 in the Town of Elba, Genesee County. This road is a little north of Ridge Rd and not far from the Orleans County line. At Blair Road at Shelby Center 4 least Sandpipers, 7 Lesser Yellowlegs, and 3 Killdeers. August 6 - a White-rumped Sandpiper at Rock Point and a Bairds Sandpiper at Mosaic Ponds in Ontario. Best Wishes for Great Birding, Bill Watson Tonawanda, NY
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