[nysbirds-l] Floyd Snowies

Today at Floyd Bennett Field I observed several individuals getting very close to snowies (less than ten feet) including one who was clearly not a birder or nature photographer chasing a bird around the grasslands with a cell phone. I flagged down a passing US Gov Police Officer and Pointed out the

[nysbirds-l] Syracuse RBA

RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse * December 30, 2013 *  NYSY  12. 30. 13   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): December 23, 2013 - December 30, 2013 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Com

[nysbirds-l] Snowy Owl visible from NYS Thruway by Waterloo, NY

At around noon today (Dec. 30th), a mostly white (probably adult male) SNOWY OWL was perched on top of the big "Waterloo Premium Outlet Mall" sign which if very visible from the NYS Thruway, west of the Waterloo/Clyde Exit #41 (same exit as for Montezuma NWR). If this one follows the form most of

[nysbirds-l] Black Vultures

I saw two Black Vultures on Manlius Center Rd. in East Syracuse today. They were in a yard in a residential neighborhood, then flew to a roof. Where they went from there, I did not see. Got good looks and not so good pictures. Lin Garrepy Sent from my iPad -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.N

[nysbirds-l] Black Guillemot at Sea Cliff - NO

I went to Sea Cliff, Hempstead Harbor, Long Island this morning at about 10 AM and then returned after lunch around 1 PM but did not see the previously reported BLACK GUILLEMOT. In the morning there were two NORTHERN GANNETS at the mouth of the harbor (one sitting on the water and the other flying

[nysbirds-l] Brooklyn gulls

There was a nice assortment of gulls at Coney Island this morning. Peter Colen and I started on the beach at the end of Stillwell Avenue, working our way West towards Seagate. The first good bird of the day was a first year Glaucous Gull roosting on the sand with the expected gull species in the

[nysbirds-l] Putnam County CBC

While not yet final, preliminary results from Saturday's (12/28) 59th Putnam CBC showed some interesting finds: One each of: Golden Eagle (by Hudson at Breakneck Ridge Mt.) N. Pintail (Drake) (Boyd's Reservoir) Horned Grebe and Wood Duck (both Lake Mahopac) Northern Shrike (Glynwood farm) Northe

RE:[nysbirds-l] Southern Nassau County CBC--Preliminary Results

Correction number 1: The Dovekie was at Tobay, on the ocean, not at Hempstead, in the hinterland. Hempstead had so many good birds, I guess my typing fingers fell into a pattern Shai From: bounce-111405883-11143...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-111405883-11143..

[nysbirds-l] Southern Nassau County CBC--Preliminary Results

The Southern Nassau County CBC progressed slowly and steadily through the pleasant day of 28 December 2013, finishing with 131 species detected through the efforts of 83 observers. This total, very slightly above our ten-year average of 130, was particularly gratifying given the absence of borea