I thought I copied this to Cayuga Birds last night:
Seneca Falls Fairgrounds, Martin Rd., Seneca, US-NY Jul 16, 2011 4:30 PM - 5:10 PM Upland Sandpiper 17 Appeared to be 1 family group of 6 in deeper grass on north edge another family group of 4 near the red building in the center of the grounds. The remaining birds were readily visible in short grass Horned Lark 14 about half were juveniles We arrived at Puddler's Marsh around 6:30. In spite of 90 degrees there was no heat shimmer and good light. Great numbers of birds. Highlights are as follows: 1 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 2 Semi-palmated Sand. 4 Pectoral Sand. 1 White-rumped Sand. 4 Solitary Sand. 30 Spotted Sand. 250 Killdeer all over the mudflats at KM 30 Greater Yellowlegs ~1000 Lesser yellowlegs 500 Least Sand. 21 great Egrets flew in around 7:40 as did numbers of Great-blue Herons until they totaled over 120. We could not find the Wilson's Phalarope or Baird's but I bet they're still there. Our persistence was rewarded by 2 otters that came out and started feeding on the water near the N-NE shore. We no longer cared about the birds we may have missed. Mike and Joann Tetlow In addition to the above the Clay-colored Sparrow was singing on and off at King Road even at 4pm. They have flooded the visitor center pool and it already attracted 30 Killdeer, 1 Solitary Sand., 12 lesser and I Greater Yellowlegs last evening. Even though all 21 Great Egrets were in the air at once no wing tags were visible. Mike and Joann Tetlow -- 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/ --