A few highlights from a trip around the lake today with Livia, Brad, and Gabrial Rosa from Brazil (for whom all but a few of the birds we saw today were lifers): Lake Road, Ledyard - first Bobolink of the year and a surprising number of Eastern Meadowlarks Downtown Aurora - 4+ Chimney Swifts overhead (also several Chimney Swifts over downtown Ithaca on Friday night) Montezuma NWR Visitor Center - 4 Dunlin, Greater Yellowlegs Montezuma NWR Main Drive - 5+ Palm Warblers foraging and singing at beginning of drive Montezuma NWR Benning Marsh - 2 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 3+ Wilson's Snipe Montezuma NWR North Spring Pool - 3+ Great Egrets Montezuma NWR Tschache Pool - 9 BLACK TERNS flying around way in the back; still lots of Ring-necked Ducks Montezuma NWR Towpath Road - SOLITARY SANDPIPER (Livia and I had one near Seneca Falls last week as well; haven't heard any other reports); 2 Great Egrets; a few lingering Canvasbacks; Hermit Thrush, Palm Warbler, and lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers along the road to the river; no luck with the WHITE-EYED VIREO that Chris Spagnoli had singing here yesterday morning at the end of Towpath Road. Armitage Road - lots of Rusty Blackbirds, singing Northern Waterthrush Marten's Tract - Virginia Rail, no Sora or American Bittern but did have a single eek call from a LEAST BITTERN in response to my imitation. It was very windy by the time we got there. Carncross Road - 28+ Bald Eagles, mostly immature in the flooded cornfield and perched all around; Greater and Lesser yellowlegs Van Dyne Spoor Road - AMERICAN REDSTART singing near the woods edge, Common Gallinule, a few short calls from a Sora
So nothing incredible, but a few new arrivals. House Wrens and Yellow Warblers were everywhere. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
