Susan Danskin and I met Stu Krasnoff at the MNWR visitor's center this morning and then explored the refuge and DEC lands farther north. The only shorebirds we encountered (other than the local breeders - Spotted Sandpipers) were on the flats just south of the Thruway, at the bend in Rt 90 (Kipp's Island???) - a distant group of 2 Greater Yellowlegs, one Black-bellied Plover, and a dozen Dunlin.
We missed the Glossy Ibis at Knox- Marsellus the first time around. It was likely foraging along the west shore, hidden by the grass. Only after a call from John and Karen Confer did we return and pick it out immediately. Other birds of particular interest were a couple of juvenile Black-crowned Night-Herons on Van Dyne Spoor Road - brief views as they shuttled from one part of the marsh to another, a pair of Sandhill Cranes seen in the distance from Carncross Road, over a dozen Black Terns at Tschache Pool, and an elusive Orchard Oriole at the beginning of Towpath Road. Bob McGuire -- 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/ --
