Extra-limitally … Still quite-likely the rarest bird lingering anywhere in N.
America, the Steller’s Sea Eagle has been noted at least to Saturday March 5th
on the *Maine* mid-coast, the area where seen by many in the previous month;
ongoing to this month, at least for now… The ongoing (1st U.S.
This small (less than 600 acres) grassland is an oasis in our
grassland-depauperate NYS, and always rewards visitors with some cool
birds. Having been reminded in a recent post of this being a magnet for
short-eared owls for a few weeks during their migration, we stopped there
Saturday afternoon en
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* March 07, 2022
* NYSY 03. 07. 22
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s): February 28, 2022 to March 07, 2022
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetland
Took a look this am for the unusual Herring Gull that's been reported here.
When I got there I found on the rocks at the end of the road a Herring Gull
with dull yellow legs, but the mantle looked to be the same color as the other
few Herrings nearby. I have seen yellow-legged Herrings a few t
I just took a look at my poor photos of the two gulls at Old Point mentioned in
my previous post and still think the Herring isn't Shai's gull, but I may be
wrong. The black-backed gull is defintatley larger than the Herrings it's with
but still not sure if it's a Lesser or not. The back doesn
Hi all,
The breeding biology of Larus gulls is very well studied. Large and noisy, they
often breed abundantly in large, conspicuous colonies where it is relatively
easy to observe their strictly socially-monogamous mating systems: the members
of pairs share elaborate display patterns exclusive
I have not been in the Montezuma area since Saturday, so I've been missing the
show! I've been getting almost hour by hour updates though from many birders
who have been out that way and...
It sounds like the Snow Geese have ARRIVED! The muck flats on Route 31 between
Savannah and Montezuma (to
