A very quick trip to Tifft yesterday - nothing new. Quite a few Black-crowned Night Herons - I suspect there may have been more at Lisa Pond, but I was unable to make it there as the light was fading. Joe Fell Buffalo, NY Tifft Nature Preserve, Erie, US-NY Aug 31, 2012 7:30 PM - 8:10 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: 79 F sun and clouds 19 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 80 Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) 6 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 1 Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 3 Great Egret (Ardea alba) 1 Green Heron (Butorides virescens) 10 Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) 22 Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) 6 Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 1 peep sp. (Calidris sp. (peep sp.)) 11 Light was fading - probably a mix of Least and Semipalmated, but appeared to be mostly or all Semipalmated. The were seen just off th boardwalk, and it is quite possible there were more present. Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) 1 Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) 1 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 3 Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) 1 American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 21 Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) 4 Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 1 Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 2 American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 1 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
