Other shorebirds today at Mays Point Pool included a Baird's Sandpiper, at
least 6 White-dumped Sandpipers, and lots of Least & Semipalmated Sandpipers
and Lesser Yellowlegs, plus a few Killdeer and Greater Yellowlegs, two
Dowitcher, sp., and a Ruddy Turnstone. I also saw what I suspect was the
Bob McGuire, Ann Mitchell & I were just finishing what was to be our last stop,
at Mays Point Pool, when a stranger arrived describing a Glossy Ibis at the
Montezuma NWR Visitor Center. We added one more stop and found the bird.
However we believe it is a juvenile, and although we saw no evidenc
CayugaRBA PLEGADIS SP IBIS (GLOSSY?) Visitor Center, Montezuma NWR 3:45PM 30
Aug
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cayugaRBA BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER & 2 AMER GOLDEN-PLOVERS, Mays Pt, back edge
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Jay,
Thanks,
So they have been in the refuge a while?
From: jmcgowa...@gmail.com [mailto:jmcgowa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jay
McGowan
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Swans
I did, and they were Trumpeter S
I did, and they were Trumpeter Swans. Although Tundra is by far the most
abundant swan in the winter, Trumpeters are the only swans that breed at the
refuge during the summer.
-Jay
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
> Did anyone see the three Swans in Montezuma on Sunday aftern
Did anyone see the three Swans in Montezuma on Sunday afternoon? My wife and
I drove through and spotted them in the pond between the drive and
interstate 90 at about 5pm. They seemed big, no yellow on the bill but the
head and neck had faint grayish streaking that sometimes looked rusty.
They cou
Sorry I forgot to report: yesterday at 5:45 a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER
flew by the point at Myers. It disappeared up the lake to the north.
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Matters much as described by Jay McGowan (on Sunday) at Mays Point (on Monday).
Excellent mudflats are emerging but most of the birds are in vegetation and
obscured much of the time. Two MERLINS chased shorebirds (and each other)
during the time I was there. Many peeps flying around - estimat
