Hi all, This morning I found an adult LITTLE GULL in a flock of Bonaparte's Gulls on the water distant off Stewart Park. I'm only posting now because, shortly after sending out a rare bird alert text to the RBA group, the bird took flight with the Bonaparte's and headed north up the lake. Observers at Myers and Taughannock were unsuccessful in finding the Little Gull, despite seeing good numbers of Bonaparte's.
As others have noted, this morning was quite active for landbird migrants as well. I started the morning with a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOUSE WREN, and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH in our yard in Northeast Ithaca, the latter especially being a good record for the neighborhood, despite breeding only a few blocks away at Sapsucker Woods. YELLOW WARBLERS were here at the Lab and at Stewart Park, as well as good numbers of Yellow-rumped and a nice YELLOW PALM WARBLER here at Sapsucker Woods. Myers had at least four GREATER and two LESSER YELLOWLEGS on the sandbar of the creek, along with a continuing female NORTHERN PINTAIL and male GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Offshore we found three LONG-TAILED DUCKS and two or more RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS. Swallows were not much in evidence off the point, but I just heard from Logan Kahle that he has seen several CLIFF SWALLOWS this morning off the Myers Marina area. Finally, I have seen reports of ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, EASTERN KINGBIRD, CHIMNEY SWIFT, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER from various parts of Tompkins County so far today. Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
