Good morning! Some of the harvested corn fields along Armitage Rd. in Savannah are being currently flooded by the landowners (waterfowl hunters) and it's getting VERY birdy. During my commute this morning I saw gulls, geese, swans, and ducks (sorry I can't be more specific) but I expect if one was to spend some time looking, there would be nice diversity.
Also, yesterday we had a very nice diversity of birds on the feeders at the MAC yesterday: blue jays, white-breasted and a red-breasted nuthatch, FOS tufted titmouse, downy woodpecker, yellow-rumped warbler (in the golden rod and NY ironweed near the feeders, not actually AT the feeder), American goldfinches, white-crowned sparrows, house sparrows. And finally, from Refuge volunteer extraordinaire Jackie: "In a word, DUCKS!! Well, it is that time of the year. Lots of ducks on the Main Pool, Sandhill Crane Unit and Tschache Pool. The Crane Unit and Tschache have primarily dabblers but the Main Pool has both dabblers and divers!! At the Crane Unit we saw a pair of Tundra Swans with a cygnet! Really cool!! We approach the Crane Unit from a service road along the east side of the Route 31 muck, (north side of the road). As we were driving toward the unit we saw a small flock of dark phase snow geese (22) with 3 white snows flying over the muck. It was really awesome. I have never seen that many dark phase birds at one time." Happy birding! -- Alyssa Johnson Environmental Educator 315.365.3588 Montezuma Audubon Center 2295 State Route 89 P.O. Box 187 Savannah, New York 13146 Audubon NY- Montezuma<http://ny.audubon.org/Montezuma> Montezuma Audubon Center on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/MontezumaAudubonCenter/> -- 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/ --
