[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * February 13, 2012 * NYSY 02.13.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 06, 2012 - February 13, 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 13 AT 6:30 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #292 -Monday February 13, 2012 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of February 06 , 2012 Highlights: --- WESTERN GREBE (Extralimital) BARROW’S GOLDENEYE ICELAND GULL PEREGRINE FALCON LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL SNOWY OWL RUSTY BLACKBIRD PURPLE FINCH COMMON REDPOLL PINE SISKIN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) No reports this week. Jefferson County 2/11: A female BARROW’S GOLDENEYE was seen in the St. Lawrence River at Grass Point State Park near Alexandria Bay. Onondaga County The SNOWY OWLS being seen at Syracuse’s Hancock Airport were last reported on 2/10. 2/11: 8 PURPLE FINCHES were seen at the Beaver Lake Nature Center feeding station. 2/13: A migrant flock of Icterids including COMMON GRACKLES and RUSTY BLACKBIRDS was seen on Rt.173 in the Town of Camillus. Madison County 2/7: At the Madison County landfill 4 ICELAND GULLS and 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen 2/12: At the Madison County landfill 4 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen. Also seen was a PEREGRINE FALCON which didn’t do much for gull watching. Oswego County 2/8: 50 COMMON REDPOLLS and heard only PINE SISKINS were found at the Selkirk east Trail. Extralimital: 2/11: The 2 WESTERN GREBES reported last week were last seen this day on the east shore of Cayuga Lake from Fire Lane 19 north of Union Springs. 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] Newman Arboretum, Mon 2/13
At midday on Monday, I decided to search for roosting owls in Cornell's Newman Arboretum. And I actually found one GREAT HORNED OWL - or I should say, a flock of highly peeved crows found it for me, high in a hemlock on the slope. This was the first owl I've ever found in many attempts at this site; somehow it simultaneously vindicated my expectations and delivered great surprise. Mark Chao -- 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] IS THIS BIRD A PAINTED BUNTING?
Cayuga Birders, The following message was posted to the State College PA Bird Club listserv. Click on the link and watch the whole thing. While these are not living birds, I think everyone will agree that the artistry and craftsmanship these pistols show is just incredible!! Don Timmons Newfield ---Original Message--- From: CHARLIE HOYER Date: 2/12/2012 12:50:22 PM To: scbir...@lists.psu.edu Subject: IS THIS BIRD A PAINTED BUNTING? Is this bird a Painted Bunting? http://www.christies.com/features/singing-bird-pistols-en-1422-3.aspx Above is a link to a short video about a pair of 200+ year-old mechanical singing-bird pistols at auction by Christie's. Whether or not you are an antique gun aficionado, you'll want to take a moment to watch. BTW, they don't shoot bullets ! Cheerz 'n beerz ! ... Charlie Hoyer -- 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] Cayuga Bird Club short-eared owl field trip Sunday afternoon
In spite of the miserably snowy, cold and windy weather , four others, John Confer, Alicia Plotkin, Anna Nowogrodzki and Ian McGullam joined Mary Jean Welser, Michele Mannella and me to look for short-eared owls in Ovid Sunday afternoon. We headed to the Wycoff Road and Rock River Road area about 3:30pm. It turned out to be a rather bright afternoon, and we didn't see any short-eared activity. Michele had received permission to walk behind the barns of the Beardsley farm which is on the northeast corner of the intersection. We walked back as far as the pond and did not see any owls or even pellets where we had seen both in years past. We did see a few tree sparrows. We then made a stop in front of Rock River Tech to check out the spruce trees where short-ears were reported to have roosted. We spotted one short-ear and with John Confer's scope, we got a pretty good look at the owl looking us over. Given it was still quite light to expect to see them in flight, we drove to Center Rd and Co Rd 129, which is where we have had short-ears and even a snowy owl in years past, but we did not see any short-ears. Many of the fields in that area have been tilled and were no longer in hay and weeds like in years past, substantially reducing the habitat for short-ears and harriers. We drove additional back roads in the area, and saw very little, other than several Horned Larks and a Red Tailed Hawk (as well as starlings and rock pigeons). Heading back to the Rock River and Wycoff area, we again didn't see any short-ear activity until we returned to the one roosting in the spruce. Shortly after we arrived at the roost about 5:15pm and had confirmed that the short-ear was still where we had first seen it, it took flight, immediately followed by a second short-ear that we hadn't noticed before and we got to see them in flight. Though some participants had to leave, several of us stayed until dark and got additional good looks at a total of 3 short-eared owls. Marty == Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell315-521-4315 == -- 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/ --
