RBA * New York * Syracuse * January 23, 2012 * NYSY 01.23.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): January 16, 2012 - January 23, 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:January 23 AT 4:30 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #289 -Monday January 23, 2012 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of January 16 , 2012 Highlights: -----------
ICELAND GULL GLAUCOUS GULL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK PEREGRINE FALCON GYRFALCON GLAUCOUS GULL LONG-EARED OWL SNOWY OWL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ No reports this week. Onondaga County ------------- 1/18: A PEREGRINE FALCON was seen in downtown Syracuse near the nesting site. 1/20: 2 ICELAND and 3 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen at the Inner Harbor. 1/21: A LONG-EARED OWL was seen at Beaver Lake Nature Center west of Baldwinsville. Efforts to relocate it have been unsuccessful. One and sometimes two SNOWY OWLS were seen daily at Hancock Airport in Syracuse. Two were seen as recently as yesterday. Oswego County ------------ 1/18: A gray phase GYRFALCON was seen hunting at Oswego Harbor. Efforts to relocate were unsuccessful. Also seen was a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a GLAUCOUS GULL. 1/20: An ICELAND GULL was seen at the Fulton Locks south of Bridge Street in Oswego. Oneida County ------------ 1/19: A dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was seen in the Town of Paris south of Utica. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
