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Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
Back from birding upstate. Some good stuff...
At the B and B:
Downy, Hairy, and Red-bellied WP, and a sapsucker.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
A FLOCK, yes a FLOCK of Great Crested Flycatchers. I'm still mulling that over in me head...
BOTH nuthatches. That was interesting.
Scarlet Tanagers. Two I think.
The first full day up there was spent at Montezuma NWR. On the way up I had a young Indigo Bunting in a corn field. At Montezuma:
Bald Eagles: 6
Red-tailed Hawk: 1
Osprey: ~10
... all flying over the same pond, mind you...
American Kestrels nearby.
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Short-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpipers
Solitary Sandpipers (maybe every third shorebird, but there weren't many to begin with)
Least Sandpipers
Purple Martins (finishing all the eastern swallows in my state of NY, and Cave Swallows are possible in fall now)
And the usual specialty larids...
Caspian Terns (35)
Black Terns (10-15)
Not too much at Cornell's Sapsucker Woods, besides a couple of female Purple Finches in the parking lot (!). Oh yeah, I found Wood Thrush (sorry Bob!), and nesting House Wren, waxwing, Swamp Sparrow, and robins! Least Flycatcher topped off the day there.
Tompkins County Airport:
RB Grosbeaks, orioles, towhees, the like.
A possible out-of-season Tennesse Warbler.
Stewart Park at the foot of Lake Cayuga:
Out-of-season American Wigeon.
31 more Caspian Terns.
74 species total. Not bad for two days in the summer.
At the B and B:
Downy, Hairy, and Red-bellied WP, and a sapsucker.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
A FLOCK, yes a FLOCK of Great Crested Flycatchers. I'm still mulling that over in me head...
BOTH nuthatches. That was interesting.
Scarlet Tanagers. Two I think.
The first full day up there was spent at Montezuma NWR. On the way up I had a young Indigo Bunting in a corn field. At Montezuma:
Bald Eagles: 6
Red-tailed Hawk: 1
Osprey: ~10
... all flying over the same pond, mind you...
American Kestrels nearby.
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Short-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpipers
Solitary Sandpipers (maybe every third shorebird, but there weren't many to begin with)
Least Sandpipers
Purple Martins (finishing all the eastern swallows in my state of NY, and Cave Swallows are possible in fall now)
And the usual specialty larids...
Caspian Terns (35)
Black Terns (10-15)
Not too much at Cornell's Sapsucker Woods, besides a couple of female Purple Finches in the parking lot (!). Oh yeah, I found Wood Thrush (sorry Bob!), and nesting House Wren, waxwing, Swamp Sparrow, and robins! Least Flycatcher topped off the day there.
Tompkins County Airport:
RB Grosbeaks, orioles, towhees, the like.
A possible out-of-season Tennesse Warbler.
Stewart Park at the foot of Lake Cayuga:
Out-of-season American Wigeon.
31 more Caspian Terns.
74 species total. Not bad for two days in the summer.
