Re: [cayugabirds-l] Loggerhead Shrike Binghamton NY
I meant TUESDAY morning at 9 am. not Wednesday. sorry too much excitement here. From: david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com To: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Cc: Dan Watkins ezbird...@aol.com Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 12:23:10 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Loggerhead Shrike Binghamton NY All, A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was found Friday August 13th on private property in the Binghamton area by Dan Watkins. The bird was refound on Saturday and also today so it has been around for a few days. The bird was actively feeding from the wires and very cooperative. I got some fair digiscoped pictures. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/4897681843/ Unfortunately, it is private property and they have only given Broome Naturalist Club members access to it. If anyone is interested, I am going back down there Wednesday morning at 9 am. I would be happy bring a group in to see if we can refind it. let me know via email and we can set a place to meet. After Wednesday I will be out of town for a week. Dan Watkins also is available to bring people into the area. His email is ezbird...@aol.com We also found an EASTERN WILLET in the mudflats by the Susquehanna river. This is a first record for Broome County! See http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/4897678159/ for photo. Dave Nicosia Johnson City NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Correction Probable WESTERN Willet Binghamton NY
Andy, The willet looked small compared to the many I have seen on the coast...but size is tough and looking at the range of the eastern mainly being coastal it probably is a western in retrospect. Thanks for the email and help. Nevertheless it is still a willetgreat bird for Broome County! I will post more pics of this bird to my flickr account soon. Dave Nicosia Johnson City NY From: Andy Guthrie guthr...@gmail.com To: david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 3:08:15 PM Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Loggerhead Shrike Binghamton NY Hi Dave, thanks for passing on word of the Loggerhead Shrike - great bird, nice to know they still come through once in a while! Please consider submitting a report, or at least your nice photographs, to NYSARC (New York State Avian Records Committee) so the evidence will be part of the official record (http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm). On your Willet - separation of the two subspecies can be difficult for many individuals, something I think tends to be obscured at times these days. That said, your bird strikes me as looking more like a juvenile Western Willet than an Eastern. It looks relatively pale overall, including an extensive pale gray-brown wash on the head, neck and upper breast, seems lanky with long legs and neck, and has a nicely tapered, two-toned bill. Of course individual photographs can sometimes be misleading, and intermediate looking birds may not always be separable... This website has a decent discussion of separating the two subspecies in juvenile plumage: http://shorebirder.blogspot.com/2008/08/western-willet-vs-eastern-willet.html Cheers, Andy Guthrie Hamlin, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 16, 2010 * NYSY 1608.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 09, 2009 - August 16, 2010 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:August 16 AT 4:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #217 -Monday August 16, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 09 , 2010 Highlights: --- GREAT EGRET SNOW GOOSE RUDDY DUCK BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK (Extralimital) MERLIN SANDHILL CRANE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER WHIMBREL STILT SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER WILSON’S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE COMMON NIGHTHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (Extralimital FISH CROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 8/11: At Knox-Marsellus Marsh there was good shorebird activity. Reported for the day were 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 3 WILSON’S PHALAROPES, 3 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, and STILT SANDPIPER. On 8/13 one of the RED-NECKED PHALAROPES was relocated. Madison County 8/10: At the turf farm on Lakeport Road north of Chittenango: PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and MERLIN. 8/13: At the turf farm: 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS and on the 15th. 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. Oswego County 8/14: 2 GREAT EGRETS were seen at the golf course on Rt.49 in West Monroe. They were seen again on the 13th.8/14: A total of 146 raptors in 9 species were seen moving at Derby Hill. A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was seen on Mcloud Road in West Monroe. Onondaga County 8/11: A SNOW GOOSE was seen at Mercer Park in Baldwinsville. One FISH CROW was heard in a group of birds on Hiawatha Boulevard in Syracuse. 8/15: One RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was spotted in the swamp on Fenner Road. A RUDDY DUCK was seen on Beaver Lake. Cayuga County 8/16: A WHIMBREL was seen flying from West Bay Beach at Fairhaven Extralimital A BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was found at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area (Buffalo area) on 8/11. See Geneseebirds for details. The bird has been throughout the week but has not been found today as of yet. A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was found in the Binghamton area on 8/13. However, the bird is on private property and is not accessible to the public. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
