Jessie and I spent the morning birding at Edgemere Drive near Braddock Bay (Monroe County) and enjoyed what was easily one of the best mornings of migration watching that we have experienced in spring. We had over 10,000 Long-tailed Ducks and 2200 Horned Grebes (and would have had more if we could have continued birding)!! There were strong movements of several other species too including Common Terns and Bonaparte's Gulls. The only rarities were two very unexpected AMERICAN AVOCETS (early and quite rare in spring) flying west. A complete checklist is here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17839636 Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
