RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* January 04, 2010
* NYSY 0401.10
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
December 28, 2009 - January 04, 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:January 04 AT 4:00 p.m. (EST)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
#187 -Monday January 04, 2010
Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of December
28 , 2009
Highlights:
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NORTHERN PINTAIL
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
GOLDEN EAGLE
NORTHERN GOSHAWK
MERLIN
PEREGRINE FALCON
ROUGH LEGGED HAWK
PURPLE SANDPIPER
GLAUCOUS GULL
SHORT-EARED OWL
BARRED OWL
NORTHERN SHRIKE
FISH CROW
COMMON RAVEN
CAROLINA WREN
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
FOX SPARROW
SCARLET TANAGER
EVENING GROSBEAK
PURPLE FINCH
RED CROSSBILL
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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1/10: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen from the potato building in the mucklands
along Rt. 31.
Oswego County
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1/4: 2 PURPLE FINCHES were seen at a feeder in Hastings. A BARRED OWL was
seen in Central Square near the Rt.81 interchange.
1/6: 3 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and a late PURPLE SANDPIPER were seen at the
end of Rainbow Shores Road. A flock of 22 COMMON RAVENS were seen near Boylston.
Onondaga County
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1/5: 2 COMMON RAVENS were found near Tully. A BARRED OWL was seen at Split
Rock west of Fairmont.
1/9: One of the downtown Syracuse PEREGRINE FALCONS was seen near the
nesting area.
1/11: A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was found with Horned Larks and Snow Buntings on
East Sorrell Hill Road just south of the Conners Road intersection in the Town
of Van Buren. A SCARLET TANAGER was seen on Gaskin Road east of Baldwinsville.
Madison County
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1/3: The New Woodstock-Southern HighlandsChristmas Count yielded 50
species on a less than ideal day. Highlights included MERLIN, NORTHERN GOSHAWK,
LAPLAND LONGSPUR, NORTHERN SHRIKE, EVENING GROSBEAK, RED CROSSBILL, and
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK.
1/5: 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen on Strain Road in the Town of
Stockbridge. 1 GLAUCOUS GULL was seen at the Madison County landfill on Buyea
Road.
Cortland County
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1/9: A juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE was spotted near Preble on East Clark Road.
Oneida County
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1/6: A CAROLINA WREN was at a feeder in Clinton.
Herkimer County
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1/6: A late FOX SPARROW has been frequenting a feeder near Cederville.
Compilers Note - I received an email with excellent pictures of a
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at a feeder. Unfourtunately the sender did not give a
location. I will pass along this information as soon as I get it.
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A.
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