Date: 5/9/25 7:06 pm From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] List from Van Dyne Spoor Road - 5/9 - Prothonotary Warbler.
Sue and I spent a few hours this morning in the Montezuma Complex. It remained cool - approx 46 F with a busy N breeze.
Still some fun with migrants and other species. Most of the area was flooded and Carncross to Howlands Island bridge and area near totally impassable. Almost no waterfowl and the only shorebirds Killdeer, including the wildlife drive. I'll attach a list from the wooded area of Van Dyne Spoor Road and one from Savannah-Spring Lake Road is in eBird. No other areas worth a list. There were Black Terns at Tschache Pool.
Bob Spahn, <rspahn...>
Montezuma NWR--Van Dyne Spoor Rd. wooded area, Wayne, New York, US
May 9, 2025 9:45 AM - 10:05 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.55 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Sue and I drove this stretch of Van Dyne Spoor Road with a first stop about half way with some spishing and Barred Owl imitation and screech owl whistling imitation. Later Just stops and spishing 100yds or so and then near end at open Sandhill Crane Unit. Did not drive out flooded SCU, just quick binocular scan from edge.
41 species
Common Gallinule 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 1
Barred Owl 3 Called back to my imitations, then lots of other cackling and odd calls. Two came in close and were seen well, at least one other still back to south calling. Stopped imitations once they started calling and approaching. Approach obvious from excited robins and blue jays well before calls.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 5
Yellow-throated Vireo 3
Warbling Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Tree Swallow 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Gray Catbird 2
Veery 1
Wood Thrush 6
American Robin 10
American Goldfinch 4
White-throated Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Baltimore Oriole 4
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Ovenbird 4
Prothonotary Warbler 1 S side near end of woods at SCU edge. Singing.
American Redstart 6
Northern Parula 2
Magnolia Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4
