RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* January 17, 2011
* NYSY 1701.11
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
January 10, 2010 - January 17, 2011
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:January 17 AT 7:00 p.m. (EST)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
#239 -Monday January 17, 2011
Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of January 10
, 2010
Highlights:
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BLACK SCOTER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
RUDDY DUCK
GOLDEN EAGLE
ICELAND GULL
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
NORTHERN SHRIKE
TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
EVENING GROSBEAK
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
COMMON REDPOLL
HOARY REDPOLL
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
No reports this week.
Onondaga County
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1/11: Up to 25 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen with COMMON REDPOLLS at the
Onondaga and Cortland County lines on Shakham Road. A lone PINE SISKIN was seen
also. The same mix was observed on 1/16. A HOARY REDPOLL was seen and
photographed at Beaver Lake Nature Center west of Baldwinsville. At the Inner
Harbor in Syracuse 2 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS, and 2 ICELAND GULLS
were found. A male HARLEQUIN DUCK was found under the one lane bridge at Long
Branch Park near Liverpool. This is probably one on the two seen on 12/23 and
12/24 farther south near the State Fair. Two groups of RUDDY DUCKS were seen at
the north end of Skaneateles Lake.
Madison County
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1/11: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen near Erieville.
1/12: One each of GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL, and LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULL
were found at the Madison County Landfill. Only the LBBG was in adult plumage.
1/16: A possible LONG-EARED OWL was heard only on Dr. Coon Lane
(previously
Coon Tree Lane). A GOLDEN EAGLE was spotted on Tag Road in the Town of
Sullivan.
Up to 50 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen at a feeder on Paradise Hill Road. One
LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen on Hunt Lane.
Oswego County
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1/15: 15 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen in a large group of Ceders on Rt.3
just south of Pine Grove. A single BLACK SCOTER was seen in Oswego Harbor. It
was found again on the 16th. during the waterfowl count.
1/17: A flock of RED CROSSBILLS was heard on Dog Leg Trail off of Church
Road in Boylston
Jefferson County
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1/15: The Point Peninsula TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE was still present at it’s
usual location on State Park Road Just off of Co. Rt. 57. It was also seen on
1/17 despite a -5 degree temperature.
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A.
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