2000 Cayuga Lake Basin First Records

Compiled by Matthew Medler

	Species	Locality	Observer	Date
1	Common Loon		Ithaca Christmas Bird Count (CBC)	Jan. 1
2	Pied-billed Grebe		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
3	Double-crested Cormorant		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
4	Great Blue Heron		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
5	Tundra Swan		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
6	Mute Swan		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
7	Snow Goose		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
8	Canada Goose		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
9	Green-winged Teal		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
10	American Black Duck		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
11	Mallard		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
12	Northern Pintail		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
13	Northern Shoveler		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
14	Gadwall		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
15	American Wigeon		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
16	Canvasback		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
17	Redhead		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
18	Ring-necked Duck		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
19	Greater Scaup		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
20	Lesser Scaup		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
21	Common Goldeneye		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
22	Bufflehead		Ithaca	Jan. 1
23	Hooded Merganser		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
24	Common Merganser		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
25	Bald Eagle		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
26	Northern Harrier		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
27	Sharp-shinned Hawk		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
28	Cooper's Hawk		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
29	Red-tailed Hawk		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
30	Rough-legged Hawk		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
31	American Kestrel		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
32	Merlin		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
33	Ring-necked Pheasant		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
34	Ruffed Grouse		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
35	Wild Turkey		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
36	American Coot		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
37	Ring-billed Gull		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
38	Herring Gull		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
39	Iceland Gull		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
40	Great Black-backed Gull		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
41	Rock Dove		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
42	Mourning Dove		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
43	Eastern Screech-Owl		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
44	Great Horned Owl		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
45	Barred Owl		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
46	Long-eared Owl		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
47	Short-eared Owl		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
48	Belted Kingfisher		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
49	Red-bellied Woodpecker		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
50	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
51	Downy Woodpecker		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
52	Hairy Woodpecker		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
53	Northern Flicker		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
54	Pileated Woodpecker		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
55	Northern Shrike		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
56	Blue Jay		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
57	American Crow		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
58	Fish Crow		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
59	Common Raven		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
60	Horned Lark		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
61	Black-capped Chickadee		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
62	Tufted Titmouse		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
63	Red-breasted Nuthatch		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
64	White-breasted Nuthatch		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
65	Brown Creeper		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
66	Carolina Wren		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
67	Golden-crowned Kinglet		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
68	Eastern Bluebird		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
69	Hermit Thrush		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
70	American Robin		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
71	Northern Mockingbird		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
72	European Starling		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
73	Cedar Waxwing		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
74	Yellow-rumped Warbler		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
75	Common Yellowthroat		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
76	American Tree Sparrow		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
77	Field Sparrow		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
78	Song Sparrow		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
79	Swamp Sparrow		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
80	White-throated Sparrow		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
81	Dark-eyed Junco		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
82	Lapland Longspur		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
83	Snow Bunting		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
84	Northern Cardinal		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
85	Red-winged Blackbird		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
86	Rusty Blackbird		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
87	Common Grackle		Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
88	Brown-headed Cowbird		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
89	Purple Finch		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
90	House Finch		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
91	Common Redpoll		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
92	Pine Siskin		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
93	American Goldfinch		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
94	Evening Grosbeak		Ithaca CBC	Jan. 1
95	House Sparrow		Ithaca CBC, Montezuma CBC	Jan. 1
96	Horned Grebe	Long Point State Park	Jay and Kevin McGowan	Jan. 2
97	Killdeer	Aurora	Jay and Kevin McGowan	Jan. 2
98	Red Crossbill	Brooktondale	Steve Kress	Jan. 3
99	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Stewart Park, Ithaca	Jon Kloppel	Jan. 5
100	Eared Grebe	Aurora Bay	Ben Fambrough	Jan. 9
101	White-winged Scoter	Aurora Bay	Kevin McGowan	Jan. 9
102	Red-breasted Merganser	Aurora Bay	Ben Fambrough	Jan. 9
103	Glaucous Gull	Cayuga Lake	Gerard Phillips	Jan. 15
104	Red-shouldered Hawk	Sapsucker Woods	Wesley Hochachka	Jan. 16
105	Winter Wren	Trumansburg	Scott Sutcliffe	Jan. 16
106	Wood Duck	Myers Point	Matt Williams	Jan. 22
107	Long-tailed Duck	Aurora Bay	Tom Nix and Matt Young	Jan. 29
108	Northern Goshawk	Brooktondale	Tom Nix	Jan. 30
109	White-crowned Sparrow	Savannah Mucklands	Gerard Phillips	Feb. 3
110	Savannah Sparrow	Romulus	Ben Fambrough and Matt Williams	Feb. 6
111	Hoary Redpoll	Sapsucker Woods	Ken Rosenberg	Feb. 8
112	Barrow's Goldeneye	Cayuga Lake (Canoga)	Ben Fambrough and Matt Williams	Feb. 11
113	Thayer's Gull	Seneca Falls	Robb Brumfield, T. Nix, K. Rosenberg, M. Young	Feb. 12
114	Northern Saw-whet Owl	Newfield	Marty Schlabach	Feb. 20
115	Turkey Vulture	Dryden	Tim Gallagher	Feb. 23
116	American Woodcock	Mecklenburg	Nancy Dickinson	Feb. 25
117	Ruddy Duck	East Shore Sailing Club	Matt Young	Feb. 26
118	American Pipit	Aurora	Matt Young	Feb. 26
119	Golden Eagle	Dryden	Conservation of Birds Class	Mar. 4
120	Surf Scoter	Stewart Park, Ithaca	Conservation of Birds Class	Mar. 4
121	Fox Sparrow	Town of Dryden	Andrea Priori	Mar. 5
122	Eastern Meadowlark	George Rd., Dryden	Van Remsen, Ken Rosenberg, et al.	Mar. 6
123	Ross's Goose	Savannah Mucklands	Matt Victoria	Mar. 6
124	Greater White-fronted Goose	Montezuma NWR	Matt Victoria	Mar. 8
125	Bonaparte's Gull	Dryden Lake	Ken Rosenberg	Mar. 9
126	Eastern Phoebe	Beam Hill	Ken Rosenberg	Mar. 9
127	Tree Swallow	Montezuma NWR	Liz Pearson and Marie Read	Mar. 9
128	Blue-winged Teal	Montezuma NWR	Tim and Anne Marie Johnson	Mar. 10
129	Red-throated Loon	Myers Point	Conservation of Birds Class	Mar. 11
130	Bohemian Waxwing	Cornell University	Meena Haribal	Mar. 11
131	Common Snipe	Dryden	Jeff Wells	Mar. 13
132	Red-necked Grebe	Stewart Park, Ithaca	Geo Kloppel and Matt Williams	Mar. 14
133	Osprey	Mud Lock	Cayuga Bird Club	Mar. 26
134	Barn Swallow	Sheldrake	Chris Tessaglia-Hymes	Mar. 29
135	American Bittern	DIL Woods	Matt Williams	Apr. 1
136	Great Egret	Montezuma NWR	Once-a-Month Bird Count	Apr. 2
137	Virginia Rail	Montezuma NWR	Once-a-Month Bird Count	Apr. 2
138	Chipping Sparrow	Montezuma NWR	Once-a-Month Bird Count	Apr. 2
139	Cattle Egret	Montezuma NWR	Donna Jean Darling	Apr. 3
140	Little Gull	Stewart Park, Ithaca	Steve Kelling	Apr. 5
141	Peregrine Falcon	Montezuma NWR	Joe Aliperti, Moss Templeton, and Jake Walker	Apr. 6
142	Greater Yellowlegs	Montezuma NWR	Matt Young	Apr. 8
143	Lesser Yellowlegs	Montezuma NWR	Matt Young	Apr. 8
144	Upland Sandpiper	Beam Hill	Ken Rosenberg	Apr. 8
145	Caspian Tern	Montezuma NWR	Matt Young	Apr. 8
146	Purple Martin	Sheldrake	Spring Field Ornithology	Apr. 8
147	N. Rough-winged Swallow	Myers Point	Spring Field Ornithology	Apr. 8
148	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	West Danby	Geo Kloppel	Apr. 8
149	Palm Warbler	Brooktondale	John and Karen Confer	Apr. 8
150	Eastern Towhee	Dryden	Gladys Birdsall	Apr. 8
151	Vesper Sparrow	King Ferry	Spring Field Ornithology	Apr. 8
152	Western Meadowlark	Dryden	Ken Rosenberg	Apr. 8
153	Pine Warbler	Comstock Knoll	Kevin McGowan	Apr. 12
154	Green Heron	Sapsucker Woods	Bruce Robertson	Apr. 14
155	Spotted Sandpiper	Beebe Lake	Will Bertsche	Apr. 14
156	Brown Thrasher	Summer Hill	Matt Young	Apr. 14
157	Broad-winged Hawk	Hunt Hill	Conservation of Birds Class	Apr. 15
158	Blue-headed Vireo	Lick Brook	Philip von Platen and Maura Henry	Apr. 15
159	Louisiana Waterthrush	West Danby	Geo Kloppel	Apr. 15
160	Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Ithaca	Nari Mistry	Apr. 16
161	Great Crested Flycatcher	West Danby	Geo Kloppel	Apr. 16
162	House Wren	Etna	Chris and Diane Tessaglia-Hymes	Apr. 16
163	Forster's Tern	Stewart Park, Ithaca	Geo Kloppel and Matt Williams	Apr. 18
164	Common Tern	Stewart Park, Ithaca	Chris Butler	Apr. 18
165	Black-bellied Plover	Montezuma NWR	Brenda Best	Apr. 21
166	Sora	Tompkins Co. Airport	Conservation of Birds Class	Apr. 22
167	Common Moorhen	Montezuma NWR	Conservation of Birds Class	Apr. 22
168	Sandhill Crane	Montezuma Wetlands Complex	Eaton Birding Society	Apr. 22
169	Chimney Swift	Ithaca	Dave Nutter	Apr. 22
170	Eastern Wood-Pewee	Sapsucker Woods	John Greenly	Apr. 22
171	Black-and-white Warbler	Sapsucker Woods	Spring Field Ornithology	Apr. 22
172	Pectoral Sandpiper	Montezuma Wetlands Complex	Gary Chapin and Meena Haribal	Apr. 23
173	Dunlin	Montezuma Wetlands Complex	Gary Chapin and Meena Haribal	Apr. 23
174	Bank Swallow	Myers Point	Allison and Jeff Wells	Apr. 23
175	Cliff Swallow	Myers Point	Allison and Jeff Wells	Apr. 23
176	Northern Parula	Ithaca	Elizabeth King	Apr. 23
177	Yellow Warbler	Ithaca	Judith Saul	Apr. 23
178	Eastern Kingbird	Hog Hole, Ithaca	Jon Kloppel	Apr. 24
179	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	Ludlowville	John Greenly	Apr. 24
180	Black-crowned Night-Heron	Aurelius	Campus Club Bird Group	Apr. 25
181	Solitary Sandpiper	Etna Nature Preserve	Chris and Aleta Tessaglia-Hymes	Apr. 25
182	Veery	Hunt Hill	Laura Stenzler and Ben Taft	Apr. 25
183	Black Tern	Montezuma NWR	Ben Fambrough	Apr. 26
184	Black-throated Green Warbler	Etna	Chris, Diane, and Aleta Tessaglia-Hymes	Apr. 28
185	Whip-poor-will	Cayuga Heights	Paul Feeny	Apr. 28
186	Northern Waterthrush	Sapsucker Woods	Matt Medler	Apr. 28
187	Least Flycatcher	Jennings Pond	Conservation of Birds Class	Apr. 29
188	Warbling Vireo	Montezuma NWR	Matt Victoria	Apr. 29
189	Red-eyed Vireo	Buttermilk Falls State Park	Conservation of Birds Class	Apr. 29
190	Blue-winged Warbler	Dryden	Gladys Birdsall	Apr. 29
191	Chestnut-sided Warbler	Sapsucker Woods	Maura Henry	Apr. 29
192	Ovenbird	Buttermilk Falls State Park	Martha Fischer	Apr. 29
193	Baltimore Oriole	Montezuma NWR	Matt Victoria	Apr. 29
194	Least Sandpiper	Canoga	Jay and Kevin McGowan	Apr. 30
195	Black-throated Blue Warbler	Beam Hill	Anne Kendall	Apr. 30
196	American Redstart	Dryden Lake	Joel and Jeanne Baines	Apr. 30
197	Bobolink	Seneca Falls	Jay and Kevin McGowan	Apr. 30
198	Gray Catbird	Mundy Wildflower Garden	Meena Haribal	May 1
199	Nashville Warbler	Sapsucker Woods	Chris Tessaglia-Hymes	May 1
200	Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Sapsucker Woods	Ken Rosenberg	May 1
201	Magnolia Warbler	Dryden	Campus Club Bird Group	May 2
202	Blackburnian Warbler	Green Hills Cemetery, Dryden	Ken Rosenberg	May 2
203	Prairie Warbler	Sapsucker Woods	Michael Murphy	May 2
204	Wood Thrush	Sapsucker Woods	Laura Stenzler	May 3
205	Grasshopper Sparrow	Newfield/Danby	Philip von Platen	May 3
206	Cerulean Warbler	Cornell University	Jay and Kevin McGowan	May 4
207	Scarlet Tanager	Mecklenburg	Nancy Dickinson	May 4
208	Indigo Bunting	Beam Hill	Jay and Kevin McGowan	May 4
209	Yellow-throated Vireo	Ithaca City Cemetery	John Greenly	May 5
210	Cape May Warbler	Sapsucker Woods	Ken Rosenberg	May 5
211	Bay-breasted Warbler	Mundy Wildflower Garden	Jaiganesh Balakrishnan	May 5
212	Little Blue Heron	Brooktondale	Sandy Podulka	May 6
213	Philadelphia Vireo	Sapsucker Woods	Spring Field Ornithology	May 6
214	Mourning Warbler	Summer Hill	Dan Wells and Matt Young	May 6
215	Canada Warbler	Hunt Hill	Laura Stenzler	May 6
216	Orchard Oriole	Forest Home	Spring Field Ornithology	May 6
217	Lincoln's Sparrow	Sapsucker Woods	Conservation of Birds Class	May 6
218	Red-headed Woodpecker	Howland Island WMA	Dan Wells, James Goetz, and Aaron Virgin	May 7
219	Marsh Wren	Montezuma NWR	Once-a-Month Bird Count	May 7
220	Blackpoll Warbler	Cayuga Nature Center	Nancy Dickinson	May 7
221	Hooded Warbler	Cayuga Nature Center	Nancy Dickinson	May 7
222	Orange-crowned Warbler	Montezuma NWR	Once-a-Month Bird Count	May 7
223	Tennessee Warbler	Montezuma NWR	Once-a-Month Bird Count	May 7
224	Henslow's Sparrow	Burdick Hill Rd., Lansing	B. Fambrough, M. Medler, & M. Williams	May 7
225	Swainson's Thrush	West Danby	Geo Kloppel	May 8
226	Golden-winged Warbler	West Danby	Geo Kloppel	May 8
227	Wilson's Warbler	Mecklenburg	Nancy Dickinson	May 8
228	Ruddy Turnstone	Myers Point	Chris Butler and Kristie Hawley	May 9
229	Common Nighthawk	Danby	Jim Houghton and Jodi Sterling	May 9
230	Olive-sided Flycatcher	Sapsucker Woods	Chris Tessaglia-Hymes	May 10
231	Semipalmated Sandpiper	Myers Point	Chris Butler and Ben Taft	May 11
232	Black-billed Cuckoo	Sapsucker Woods	Meena Haribal	May 11
233	Semipalmated Plover	Myers Point	Nate Cote and Jake Walker	May 13
234	Willow Flycatcher	West Danby	Geo Kloppel	May 13
235	Prothonotary Warbler	Newfield	Donna Jean Darling	May 13
236	White-rumped Sandpiper	Ithaca	Bruce Robertson	May 14
237	Short-billed Dowitcher	Savannah	Ben Fambrough	May 14
238	Alder Flycatcher	West Danby	Ben Fambrough	May 16
239	Loggerhead Shrike	Armitage Rd., Galen/Tyre	Chris Butler and Kristie Hawley	May 16
240	Worm-eating Warbler	West Danby	Chris Butler and Kristie Hawley	May 16
241	Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Armitage Rd., Galen/Tyre	Matt Victoria	May 17
242	Bicknell's Thrush	Sapsucker Woods	K. Rosenberg, S. Kelling, & B. Robertson	May 17
243	Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	Armitage Rd., Galen/Tyre	Tom Nix	May 18
244	Gray-cheeked Thrush	Lansing	Geo Kloppel	May 22
245	Whimbrel	Myers Point	Geo Kloppel	May 24
246	Wilson's Phalarope	Savannah	Tom Nix	May 26
247	American White Pelican	Varna	Meena Haribal	May 28
248	Brant	West Danby	Geo Kloppel	May 30
249	Least Bittern	Howland Island WMA	Chris Tessaglia-Hymes	June 3
250	Sanderling	Myers Point	Geo Kloppel	June 3
251	Baird's Sandpiper	Savannah	Ben Fambrough	June 7
252	Acadian Flycatcher	Lansing	Chris Tessaglia-Hymes	July 10
253	Sedge Wren	Ithaca/Dryden	Kevin McGowan	July 20
254	Stilt Sandiper	Montezuma NWR	Ben Fambrough and Meena Haribal	July 24
255	Red-necked Phalarope	Montezuma NWR	Matt Victoria	Aug. 21
256	American Golden-Plover	Montezuma NWR	Matt Victoria	Aug. 26
257	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Montezuma NWR	Matt Victoria	Aug. 26
258	Long-billed Dowitcher	Montezuma NWR	Ken Rosenberg	Aug. 27
259	Western Kingbird	Sapsucker Woods	John Fitzpatrick and Chris Tessaglia-Hymes	Sept. 13
260	Connecticut Warbler	Montezuma NWR	Bill Purcell	Sept. 16
261	Dickcissel	Town of Genoa	Geo Kloppel	Sept. 22
262	Sabine's Gull	Stewart Park	Meena Haribal	Oct. 7
263	Black Scoter	Cayuga Lake (Taughannock Pt.)	Geo Kloppel	Oct. 17
264	Snowy Owl	Savannah Mucklands	Gerard Phillips	Nov. 17
265	Eurasian Wigeon	Cayuga Lake State Park	Bob Fogg	Dec. 6
266	Laughing Gull	Stewart Park	Steve Kelling	Dec. 17