Fwd: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Count Week
To clarify, the message from Joe & Carol Slattery was about the GENEVA count on Sunday January 3, with the count week including Thursday 31 Dec through Wednesday 6 Jan. Meanwhile the ITHACA count is on Friday, New Year's Day, the first 24 hours of 2010. Keep track of any unusual birds in the Ithaca area starting midnight tonight, the start of 29 December until midnight at the end of Monday 4 January. This can help counters find the birds on count day, and if the birds are missed on count day they can still be included on count week. The count circle is a standard 15 miles in diameter, and I believe it is centered on Mount Pleasant. I believe it includes Dryden Lake, the north end of Scofield Road, just south of Myers Point, some of Sheffield Road, and a bit of lower Robert Treman Park as a few landmarks. But hey, any interesting bird in the area is worth posting about, even if you don't know if it's in the count circle or even in the Cayuga Lake Basin. --Dave Nutter >From: "Joe & Carol Slattery" >To: "'Dave Nutter'" >Date: December 28, 2009 09:14:20 AM PST >Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Count Week > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * December 28, 2009 * NYSY 2812.09 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): December21, 2009 - December 28, 2009 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 28 AT 6:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #186 -Monday December 28, 2009 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of December 21 , 2009 Highlights: --- CACKLING GOOSE SNOW GOOSE BONAPARTE’S GULL NORTHERN GOSHAWK NORTHERN HARRIER MERLIN PEREGRINE FALCON LONG-EARED OWL SHORT-EARED OWL BARRED OWL SAW-WHET OWL YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER NORTHERN SHRIKE YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW FOX SPARROW SNOW BUNTING BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD PINE SISKIN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) Montezuma Christmas count (12/19-belated) 78 species were found on the Montezuma Christmas Count. Highlights were CACKLING GOOSE, PEREGRINE FALCON, LONG-EARED OWL, SHORT-EARED OWL, NORTHERN SHRIKE, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 12/27: A second hand report of SHORT-EARED OWLS still at Van Dyne Spoor Road. An estimated 50,000 SNOW GEESE were seen on the north side of Rt. 31 in the Mucklands. Onondaga County 12/27: A late BONAPARTE’S GULL was seen near the Seneca River in Baldwinsville. A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was seen at Cold Spring Harbor near Liverpool. 12/28: A PINE SISKIN and a BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD were at a feeder in the south part of Syracuse. 100+ SNOW BUNTINGS were seen on Babcock Road just north of Beaver Lake Nature Center. Oneida County Clinton Christmas Count (12/19-belated) 54 specied were found on the Clinton Christmas Count. Highlights were NORTHERN HARRIER, MERLIN, PEREGRINE FALCON, BARRED OWL, SAW-WHET OWL, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, FOX SPARROW. --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 Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] White-winged Scoters, Red-breasted Mergansers at Sheldrake
On my way up to the Thruway on Thursday and on my way back yesterday I checked the lake shore around Sheldrake Pt. I found 2 male White-winged Scoters on Thursday (12/24). They were still there Sunday (12/27) about 50 yards offshore near 7225 Wyers Pt. Rd. On Sunday there were two Red-breasted Mergansers in the same vicinity. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] ducks ousted
Yesterday afternoon in front of my house just north of Hog Hole, all that was left of the thousands of waterfowl that have gathered every day were 43 American Coots, apparently not minding the gunfire. There had been regular Tundra Swans (about 20) and Redheads (more than 1500), a scattering of Canvasbacks, Ring-necked Ducks, American Black Ducks, Scaup, and many Canadas. I look forward to their return after hunting season, and after the CBC. I miss them. I didn't report the vast numbers to the list because hunters read the postings. Elaina At 8:48 PM -0800 12/27/09, Dave Nutter wrote: A late-morning / early-afternoon walk revealed that the southwest part of Cayuga Lake pretty well had the birds cleared out of it. The only Aythya I saw there were a couple of male Redhead carcasses held by one of half a dozen gunners in camo who had set up with a couple of grounded boats and a lawn chair in water a few inches deep along the shore of Treman Marine Park, while their dogs sat beside them on the beach. For live birds on the lake (greatly outnumbered by plastic) there were 2 AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, 3 MALLARDS, a tight flock of AMERICAN COOTS, 6 COMMON LOONS in the distance (including a close group of 4 to the northeast), 1 HORNED GREBE in the distance to the northwest, and in the inlet 1 male REDHEAD listing heavily, 2 female LESSER SCAUP (1 with a disheveled wing), and 6 female BUFFLEHEAD. When the gunners packed up and left for the East Shore Marina, even before the sound, smell, and wake of their boats subsided, a flock of 1 male and 6 female HOODED MERGANSER flew from that direction to the southwest corner of the lake. At Stewart Park the ice was crowded with CANADA GEESE (including the domestic hybrid), MALLARDS, AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, a couple of COMMON MERGANSERS, and plenty of HERRING, RING-BILLED, and GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS. Off the ice off Stewart Park I saw 1 male and 2 female COMMON GOLDENEYE. The lake looked empty compared to the hundreds of ducks, geese, and swans that were on it a couple days ago, and I am sad despite the beautiful day. I look forward to the return of the survivors when it it safe. Other birds included 2 separate NORTHERN FLICKERS, an EASTERN BLUEBIRD, 5 AMERICAN ROBINS foraging together on some lawn, 2 separate NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS, 3 separate singing CAROLINA WRENS, at least 5 AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS in a flock near the mouth of the inlet, a couple of WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, a SONG SPARROW, lots of AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES, among other expected birds. Twice I heard but did not see a RED-TAILED HAWK, but once I suspected BLUE JAYS were to blame. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
