RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* December 27, 2010
* NYSY 2712.10
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
December 20, 2009 - December 27, 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:December 27 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
#236 -Monday December 27, 2010
Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of December
20
, 2010
Highlights:
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TUNDRA SWAN
KING EIDER (Extralimital)
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
NORTHERN GOSHAWK
GLAUCOUS GULL
NORTHERN SHRIKE
COMMON RAVEN
TOWNSEND’S SOLATAIRE
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
EVENING GROSBEAK
COMMON REDPOLL
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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No reports this week.
Onondaga County
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12/21: 3 COMMON REDPOLLS were seen at a feeder in Marcellus.
12/23: 2 male HARLEQUIN DUCKS were found at the fisherman’s access area
near the State Fairgrounds on Onondaga Lake. They were still present on the
24th. but efforts to find them on the 25th. and after have been unsuccessful.
12/25: 8 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen at the intersection of Verplank and
Bennet Roads near Great Northern Mall. A second winter GLAUCOUS GULL was seen
at
the Marina near Liverpool on Onondaga Lake. 11 TUNDRA SWANS were seen at the
mouth of Nine Mine Creek on Onondaga Lake.
12/26: 1 COMMON REDPOLL was at a feeder in Fayetteville. A WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW was at a feeder in Syracuse.
12/27: A COMMON RAVEN was seen flying over the Fayetteville area.
Madison County
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12/21: A WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was seen at a feeder in Erieville.
12/24: 2 COMMON REDPOLLS and 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen on Hunt Road in
DeRuyter. A small group of EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen on Carpenter Road and a
group of 50 or more EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen on Paradise Hill Road, both
near
DeRuyter.
12/25: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen near a feeder in Erieville.
12/26: A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was seen flying near Erieville.
12/27: 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen with Snow Buntings and Horned Larks
on
Strain Road near Munnsville.
Oneida Lake
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12 27: 11 COMMON REDPOLLS were at a feeder in Durhamville.
Jefferson County
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12/20: A very rare TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE was found on State Park Road just
off of Co. Rt. 57 on Point Peninsula. It has been very cooperative for the many
visitors going to see it during the week and was seen today. It has been
feeding
on juniper berries which are very common in the area. Also seen nearby during
the week were BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS and both a male and female BARROW’S GOLDENEYE.
Extralimital
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12/27: The male KING EIDER found originally at Meyer’s Point north of
Ithaca on Cayuga Lake is still being seen closer to Ithaca. Initially refound
at
Stewart Park at the southernmost part of the lake, today it was seen Treman
Marina Park just west of Stewart Park.
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A.
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