Along the back roads on the Lake Ontario plain this morning, lots of Dark-eyed Juncos, and American Tree Sparrows were coming to the road shoulders. On West Somerset Road in the Town of Newfane, there was also one SAVANNAH SPARROW and six WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. On Hess Road a little south of Rt 18, in the alders that line the road, I had a group of 30 PINE SISKINS. While there have been decent numbers of Common Redpolls along much of Lake Ontario, they have been very scarce on the NY side - I'm still looking for my first since the winter of 2012-13. Also, scarce on the lake plain in Niagara County this late fall are Cedar Waxwings. I have not seen any on the lake plain in the last month. Today I checked out some orchards that are known hotspots for the species at this time of the year but still had no luck.
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