[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * March 05, 2012 * NYSY 03.05.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 27, 2012 - March 05, 2012 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:February 27 AT 6:30 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #295 -Monday March 05, 2012 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of February 27 , 2012 Highlights: --- WESTERN GREBE (Extralimital) ROSS’S GOOSE SNOW GOOSE NORTHERN GOSHAWK GOLDEN EAGLE BALD EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE ICELAND GULL GLAUCOUS GULL SHORT-EARED OWL SNOWY OWL SAW-WHET OWL BOHEMIAN WAXWING GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCH WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 2/28: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen on East Road. 3/2: A SANDHILL CRANE was seen flying over the Audubon Center. 3/4: A ROSS’S GOOSE was seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Oswego County 2/29: 5 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS were spotted on Bargy Road north of North Church Road. 4 SANDHILL CRANES were seen near Amboy Center by the 4-H Center. Derby Hill Hawks were counted on four days this week. The best day was 3/2 when the first (all 3) accipiters arrived. It was a great EAGLE day with 8 BALDS and 11 GOLDENS! Just as impressive was the final count of 92,300 SNOW GEESE flying over. The final tally for the week was 269 Raptors. Jefferson County 2/29: 300 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen at the corner of Rt. 121 and Washburn near Ellisburg. 3/1: A GLAUCOUS GULL and an ICELAND GULL were seen at the Jefferson County Landfill. Onondaga County 2/29: Nearly 3,000 SNOW GEESE were spotted on Snaneateles Lake. 3/2: A SAW-WHET OWL was seen at Beaver Lake Nature Center. 3/3: FOS WOOD DUCKS were seen at Three Rivers WMA near the Eagle’s nest. A SNOWY OWL was still being seen at Hancock Airport. Lewis County 3/4: A very rare sighting of a GRAY-CROWNED ROSY-FINCH was reported from a home north of Booneville. A photo was sent to Cornell and verified the ID. Today numerous birders met with success in seeing the bird. The address is 2788 State Route 12D Booneville and the homeowner is Nancy Loomis. She is a birder and is amenible to birders coming to see the bird. Please call (315-723-2527) to make an appointment. Extralimital 3/4: Two WESTERN GREBES were again seen at Stewart Park at the south end of Cayuga Lake. 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese
Just observed around 3000 snow geese flyover downtown Aurora headed for west side of lake. Wade & Melissa -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] off topic
On Mar 5, 2012, at 5:31 PM, joe & Diana wrote: > Since this is a birding opportunity, I am posting Baltimore Woods request to > vote once a day throughout the month of March for their project to design and > install a Peregrine Falcon Education Exhibit within view of the State Tower > Building. Here is the link. Some tough choices there. http://mygiving.cnycf.org/page.aspx?pid=476Â > > >> > > Diana Whiting > http://www.dianawhitingphotography.com/ > Diana Whiting http://www.dianawhitingphotography.com/ -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] FOY (for us) killdeer
A walk up Bundy Road on west hill at 2:30pm was enlivened by the sight of two (FOY for us) killdeer in the fields on the south side of the road and eight turkeys in the field not far west of that. Also a red-tailed hawk being mobbed by several crows. Marsha and Fred Kardon -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Raven over Ithaca airport Monday afternoon
A Common Raven was just calling and circling lazily over the northern end of the Ithaca airport just a few minutes ago (1pm). Scott Haber -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Corrections
Thanks Susan and others! Ross's Goose (not GULL) Green-winged Teal I was trying to get some sort of report out before a meeting this morning. Glad to know some people are awake! Bob -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Redpoll
Siskins seem to have departed, but I still have one Common Redpoll coming to my feeder in the company of Goldfinches. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker & Restorer 227 Tupper Rd Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Karen's Fox Sparrow
Some of us spent the day, Sunday, standing on windy, snow-swept shorelines looking through incredibly large flocks for Ross Geese and Eurasian Widgeon without success (Well OK, there was the Ross Goose overhead, but you might have seen it while staying in the car.) Others stayed at home, slept in late and birded from within the house looking at feeders. One of us got perhaps the bird of the day, a Fox Sparrow eating our corn. OK, that person did miss the companionship during the day. Cheers, John and Karen -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --<>
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Around the Lake Saturday
I think Bob's cold has gone to his head... It was a Ross's Goose and a Green-winged Teal =) Susan On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Jody W Enck wrote: > Ok, Bob, I'll bite. Did you guys really see a Ross' Gull at Montezuma? I > checked the calendar just to make sure it was not April Fool's Day. > > Jody > > > From: bounce-41643615-3493...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-41643615-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of bob mcguire > [bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:13 AM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Around the Lake Saturday > > Susan Danskin, John Confer, Marty Borko, and I birded around the lake > yesterday. I was fighting a cold, did not take notes, and so do not > remember much besides a few highlights. It was an interesting day, > much of it spent dodging snow squalls. > > Stewart Park: Rusty Blackbird on the mud under the first green bridge. > > Myers: male White-winged Scoter and distant (off Crowbar Point) > Western Grebe. We had seen a closer WESGRE from Stewart Park earlier, > swimming near a Red-throated Loon. So I assume that there were two > WESGRE at the south end of the lake. > > Morgan Road: Green-winded Teal > > Knox-Marcellus Marsh: fly-over Ross's Gull > > Lower Lake Road/CLSP: tens of thousands of Snow Geese, 10 Green-winged > Teal, Glaucous Gull standing on the shore in great light (picked out > by Susan), hundreds of American Wigeon (couldn't find a Eurasian) > > Bob McGuire > > > > -- > > 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ > > -- > -- > > 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ > > -- > -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Around the Lake Saturday
Ok, Bob, I'll bite. Did you guys really see a Ross' Gull at Montezuma? I checked the calendar just to make sure it was not April Fool's Day. Jody From: bounce-41643615-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-41643615-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of bob mcguire [bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:13 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Around the Lake Saturday Susan Danskin, John Confer, Marty Borko, and I birded around the lake yesterday. I was fighting a cold, did not take notes, and so do not remember much besides a few highlights. It was an interesting day, much of it spent dodging snow squalls. Stewart Park: Rusty Blackbird on the mud under the first green bridge. Myers: male White-winged Scoter and distant (off Crowbar Point) Western Grebe. We had seen a closer WESGRE from Stewart Park earlier, swimming near a Red-throated Loon. So I assume that there were two WESGRE at the south end of the lake. Morgan Road: Green-winded Teal Knox-Marcellus Marsh: fly-over Ross's Gull Lower Lake Road/CLSP: tens of thousands of Snow Geese, 10 Green-winged Teal, Glaucous Gull standing on the shore in great light (picked out by Susan), hundreds of American Wigeon (couldn't find a Eurasian) Bob McGuire -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ -- -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Around the Lake Saturday
Susan Danskin, John Confer, Marty Borko, and I birded around the lake yesterday. I was fighting a cold, did not take notes, and so do not remember much besides a few highlights. It was an interesting day, much of it spent dodging snow squalls. Stewart Park: Rusty Blackbird on the mud under the first green bridge. Myers: male White-winged Scoter and distant (off Crowbar Point) Western Grebe. We had seen a closer WESGRE from Stewart Park earlier, swimming near a Red-throated Loon. So I assume that there were two WESGRE at the south end of the lake. Morgan Road: Green-winded Teal Knox-Marcellus Marsh: fly-over Ross's Gull Lower Lake Road/CLSP: tens of thousands of Snow Geese, 10 Green-winged Teal, Glaucous Gull standing on the shore in great light (picked out by Susan), hundreds of American Wigeon (couldn't find a Eurasian) Bob McGuire -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
