[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * December 20, 2010 * NYSY 2012.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): December 13, 2009 - December 20, 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:December 20 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #235 -Monday December 20, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of December 13 , 2010 Highlights: --- RED-NECKED GREBE TRUMPETER SWAN TUNDRA SWAN CACKLING GOOSE KING EIDER (Extralimital) RED-SHOULDERED HAWK ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK MERLIN PEREGRINE FALCON PURPLE SANDPIPER LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL GLAUCOUS GULL SNOWY OWL SAW-WHET OWL NORTHERN SHRIKE GRAY CATBIRD WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW COMMON REDPOLL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) No reports this week. Onondaga County 12/16: A NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL was seen near the Pines Meadow trail at Beaver Lake Nature Center. 12/18: The Syracuse Christmas Bird Count was held on this day with the following highlights. A PURPLE SANDPIPER was found on Onondaga Lake at the fisherman’s access near the State Fair. It is believed to be the first one ever found on Onondaga Lake in any season. Also seen on Onondaga Lake were 16 species of waterfowl, a RED-NECKED GREBE, a GLAUCOUS GULL, and a MERLIN. A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was found at the entrance to Clark Reservation State Park and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was seen at a quarry pond on North Manlius Road near Mineoa. Oswego County 12/18: A group of Swans including TRUMPETERS and TUNDRAS were seen on Oneida Lake on Lakeshore Road near Lakeshore Country Club. 12/19: The Fulton/Oswego Christmas Bird Count was held this day with the following highlights.A SNOWY OWL was found on one of the breakwalls near the fort. Other good birds reported were COMMON REDPOLL and WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. Locations were not available at this time. Oneida County 12/18: The Clinton Christmas Bird Count was held on this day with the following Highlights. CACKLING GOOSE, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, MERLIN, PEREGRINE FALCON, NORTHERN SHRIKE, GRAY CATBIRD, and COMMON REDPOLL. Extralimital The adult plumaged male KING EIDER first found at Meyer’s Point north of Ithaca on Cayuga Lake seems to have moved to Stewart Park at the south end of the lake in Ithaca and was seen as recently as 12/19. --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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Spring Monday Night Seminar Schedule online
Hello- You can start marking down the dates in your Spring calendars right now, because the Spring semester of Monday Night Seminars and Cayuga Bird Club meetings is online at birds.cornell.edu/mns Local members will receive a mailing toward the end of January with the events for the midwinter/early spring (including the seminars) and we'll continue to email info about the upcoming seminars each week. Hope to see you here! charles. ** Charles Eldermire Public Education Outreach Associate Manager, Sapsucker Woods & Johnson Visitors' Center Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-1131 (607) 254-2111 [fax] birds.cornell.edu/visit twitter.com/sapsuckerwoods facebook.com/sapsuckerwoods -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] eBird's new Yard and Patch tools
Hi everyone, As I think just about everyone on this list knows, there are a couple of places that I really like to go birding -- Myers Point and Monkey Run (particularly our yard). I've spent a bit of time discussing the fun of doing repeated surveys of these locations, both in terms of finding rarities, but more importantly to me, the fun of getting to really know a place. We've built a couple of new tools in eBird for keeping track of some of your favorite places that are available under View and Explore Data. One, called "Patch Totals", allows you to bring together a series of different eBird locations to keep track of a "patch". So for Myers Point, I can include both Myers Point and the Myers Point Marina. And for Monkey Run, I can include the 8 different locations where I submit checklists. I can also go in and see the latest checklist where Tim Lenz saw a new bird (either for the current year, month or his lifetime) for Stewart Park, the Main Pool at Montezuma or any of his other patches. Part of the fun of this is to keep track of the birds you see from your yard and see what others are seeing. Take a look at the link below for a handful of people who are already playing here in Tompkins County. http://ebird.org/ebird/site/yard?locInfo.regionType=subnational2&locInfo.regionCode=US-NY-109 Hopefully others will adopt one or more local patches and see how many birds we can find next year. Find out more here: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/home/about/yard-patch_rules Cheers, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] snow geese
No one mentioned, and maybe Snow Geese aren't worth mentioning, but they always give me a thrill, and I did see a large flock of them on the west side of Cayuga yesterday at noon, sitting in the water in a long trail that looked like a snowy jetty, near Varick. There were also a few here and there on the shore, mingling with the Canadas, glimpsed as we drove by. Nancy W. Dickinson -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] feeder birds
That's funny - I had 14 Mourning Doves under my feeders this morning, which is 10 more than usual. Are they having a local convention? Stephanie Greenwood West Hill On 12/20/10 10:13 AM, Nancy W Dickinson wrote: > Unusual birds at our feeders this weekend included a White-crowned > Sparrow, a Grackle, and a ridiculous number of Mourning Doves-- 28 at > last count. > > Nancy Dickinson > Mecklenburg > > /Make a little birdhouse in your soul./ > -- Stephanie Greenwood Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 273 1179 607 280 1050 cell -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] feeder birds
Unusual birds at our feeders this weekend included a White-crowned Sparrow, a Grackle, and a ridiculous number of Mourning Doves-- 28 at last count. Nancy Dickinson Mecklenburg Make a little birdhouse in your soul. -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
