Most from Eaton Bird Club Trip today:
Swamp Sparrows - MNWR Auto Loop and Railroad Road
Blue-winged Teal 4 - at Tschache Pool
1 Purple Martin in flight - at Montezuma Audubon Center
Field Sparrows calling - at Montezuma Audubon Center
Caspian Tern - at Martin's Tract
American Golden Plover 3, Dunl
I forgot to credit Tom Johnson for telling us about Van Dyne Spoor Road and its
shorebirds and about Railroad Road and its Eurasian Wigeon. He also told me he
and his SFO group saw 2 RED-NECKED GREBES and 4 COMMON TERNS from Cayuga Lake
State Park, Seneca Falls.
--Dave Nutter
On Saturday, Apr
Highlights of Saturday going up the east side of Cayuga Lake and around the
Montezuma area with my SFO group
Myers Point:
1 COMMON LOON south of private marina
1 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT on pilings by Portland Point, sw from private marina
1 BONAPARTE'S GULL migrating past spit
3 NORTHERN ROUG
Hi Sydney,
Thanks for sharing your sighting and your notes from the field. Based on the
notes you've shared, it sounds like this bird was a Bonaparte's Gull that
happened to be a smaller individual. Here are the things that lead me to say
this:
Little Gull (in any plumage) can be immediately
I saw a gull at Myers Point just before noon that initially struck me as
an adult LITTLE GULL. I know that one was reported yesterday and so that
makes me more inclined to think that what I saw was in fact a Little
Gull. But a couple of points made me start to doubt that identification.
I got g
The Cayuga Bird Club is pleased to welcome Jim Goetz as guest speaker at
our monthly meeting on Monday, April 12 at 7:30 pm at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology. Jim is a PhD student in Natural Resources at Cornell
University and will be presenting "Birds on the Edge: The Endangered
Black-capped Petre
There was a single, breeding plumage RED-NECKED GREBE just off the
point at Myers this morning around 6:45. Also seen were a female LONG-
TAILED DUCK, COMMON LOON, and three BONAPARTE'S GULLS, all flying
north into a brisk wind.
There was a Common Loon inside the private marina and a BROWN T
The Shaver's Creek Birding Cup is coming up in less than a month! The
Birding Cup, held from 7 pm April 30th to 7 pm May 1st this year, is
very much like the World Series of Birding, only set in central
Pennsylvania. It's a great way to warm up for the World Series the
next week in Cape May
