[cayugabirds-l] Savannah mucklands shorebirds

Many more peeps today. Mostly least sandpiper. Flocks all over. So far 1 pectoral sandpiper and 1 dunlin. Also 4 semipalmated plovers just south of potatoes bldg. Many more shorebirds distant. Had 1 dowitcher presumably short billed but too far to be sure. Waterfowl numbers way down. Hopefully w

[cayugabirds-l] Savannah mucklands

Loaded with Gulls, snow geese. Lighting poor now. Mostly Herring gulls but did pick out one adult lesser black backed Gull. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabirds

[cayugabirds-l] Savannah Mucklands and Armitage Road areas

This morning, I trekked up to visit and scope out the area of Savannah Mucklands and the Armitage Road areas for field birds. I was there from about 7:30am to 8:30am. In the fields near the Potatoes building were about 10+ Savannah Sparrows, 8 Horned Larks and 3 AMERICAN PIPITS. One thing of n

[cayugabirds-l] Savannah Mucklands - Saturday PM

Two hours at the Mucklands and the roost flight appeared to be into the mucks rather than away from them. Many gulls (1000), most very distant, and mostly Herring with some Ring-bills mixed in. Good numbers of distant ducks but I could only find 3 species. Snow goose numbers building from 1 t

[cayugabirds-l] Savannah Mucklands

Thousands and thousands of gulls. Hundreds of tundra swans. Geese by the boatload. Mostly canadas but still a good amount of snows. The gulls were mostly ring billed but many had all black bills from foraging in the muck. Also many herring, 1 GBB and a few candidates for iceland and 1 for glauc

[cayugabirds-l] Savannah Mucklands goose sweep (D. Tetlow and K. Fox), Mon 1/3

This evening I took note of a remarkable eBird report and Geneseebirds post from Dave Tetlow. He reports that he and Kurt Fox had a sweep of all the area's goose species in the Savannah Mucklands on Monday, including one each of BRANT, CACKLING GOOSE, ROSS'S GOOSE, and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOO

[cayugabirds-l] Savannah Mucklands, Fri 9/18

Bob McGuire just called again (12:45 PM). He has found five AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS just south of the intersection of Routes 31 and 89 in the Savannah Mucklands, close to the road in a newly-harvested potato field. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabi