Montezuma Field Trip Report 2011
On a cloudy, rainy, windy, sunny day, yes, we had all the conditions, five of us headed out to Montezuma via stops along the way at Stewart Park, Meyer’s Point, and Long Point State Park.
Here are the birds from the trip per Fran’s list: On the way we saw Crows, Starlings, Canada Geese, Rock Doves.
STEWART PARK: Double-crested Cormorants, Mallards, Ring-billed Gulls, Great Black-backed Gull, Song Sparrows, Hooded Mergansers, Great Blue Heron, Horned Grebe, Mourning Dove.
MEYERS POINT STATE PARK: Turkey Vulture, Herring Gulls, and Harrier on the way to Long Point State Park which came up absolutely vacant of any birds.
POPLAR RIDGE ROAD: (We stopped in search of the Red-headed Wood Pecker but he was not home), Black-throated Green, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Red-tailed Hawk, IM. Eagle,
MONTEZUMA: Wood Duck, Black Duck, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeers, Blue-winged Teal, Male Harrier, Adult Eagle, Northern Shovelers, Wilson’s Phalarope, American Coots, Pied-billed Grebes, and a couple thousand Northern Pintails.
MAYS POINT: (By this time, we were facing gail force winds making it hard to even stand let alone look through binoculars without supporting them.) Gadwall, Blue Heron, Harrier, Great Egret.
KNOX MARSH: Snow Geese, Greater Black-backed Gull, Eagles 2 adults and one IM. feeding on what looked like a dead goose. Northern Pintail Ducks, Harrier, Canada Geese, Trumpeter Swan, Great Egret, Tree Swallow. It was comical to watch the eagles fly into the wind going no where fast like being on a treadmill.
DEANS COVE: 3 Common Loons, Raft of Cormorants, Chickadees, Cardinal and Blue Jay
Wish you could have been with us!
Dan Dunn
Broome County Naturalists’ Club Field Trip Chairperson
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