[cayugabirds-l] Around the lake 10 Feb
Almost every day around the lake is well spent. This not spectacular trip had its great moments. We started at Andy's house near Game Farm Rd and Rt. 366 and counted 47 red-tails at the nearby game farm and continued to see numerous red-tails during the trip, perhaps 80 or 90 for the day. As we were driving up to the point at Myers Point a large falcon with streaked breast frew off to the north. Seen very briefly through dirty car windows we could very definitely identify it as a falcon larger than a Merlin with a streaked breast. Courting golden-eye showed how ridiculous courting males can be. North of Triangle Diner we found the only manure strip of the entire trip: about 150 Horned Lark, 30-50 Snow Buntings, and two Lapland Longspur (or one that moved around a good deal). The birds came up to seed heads along the shoulder of the road a few feet from the (still dirty) car windows. What we could see was really neat. Aurora Bay (from the parking lot above the boathouse) we say five Horned Grebes, but no Eared after a thorough search in good light conditions. (We did get outside the car, which was recognizable as ours. See there was a good reason to have those especially dirty windows.) From Towpath Rd. we saw several hundred swans (Now how did Bob distinguish Trumpeter from Tundra several hundred yards out? Maybe he cleaned his car windows.) Van Dyne Spoor Rd., Morgan Rd and Carncross Rd, collectively, produced two light phase and one dark phase Rough-legged. (I don't know where the robins that Bob saw went to.) and a parked car that blocked our passage along the dike. Please, move over to the side when parked on those roads with narrow dikes.) Near Ovid we saw a few bluebirds and a Mockingbird on a television antenna above a house surrounded primarily by corn stubble. We didn't find any short-eared despite roughly being in the right general area around Ovid and Interlaken at the right time. It was noticeable that almost all the fields had been cut barren and that the few hay fields we saw were cut short without seed heads. This is not good mouse habitat. -- 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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * February 11, 2013 * NYSY 02. 11. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 04, 2013 - February 11, 2013 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 11 AT 4:30 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #341 -Monday February 11, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of February 04 , 2013 Highlights: --- BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON TUNDRA SWAN TRUMPETER SWAN TUFTED DUCK SURF SCOTER RED-SHOULDERED HAWK PEREGRINE FALCON ICELAND GULL GLAUCOUS GULL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL BOHEMIAN WAXWING LAPLAND LONGSSPUR Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 2/11: TUNDRA and TRUMPETER SWANS were seen from Towpath Road. Onondaga County 2/5: An ICELAND GULL was found at the Inner Harbor. 2/6: 6 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were found with Horned Larks and Snow Buntings on West Sorrell Hill Road south of Connors Road near Baldwinsville. 2/7: 7 ICELAND GULLS and 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen at the Inner Harbor. 2/10: 4 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen with Horned Larks and Snow Buntings on East Sorrell Hill Road south of Connors Road near Baldwinsville. They seem to be following the freshest manure spread day to day. 1 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 6 ICELAND GULLS and 3 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were all found at the Inner Harbor. 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS were seen in downtown Syracuse. 2/11: A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK continues to be seen in the Waterbury Drive area of North Syracuse. 17 TUNDRA SWANS were with other common waterfowl at the mouth of Nine Mile Creek on Onondaga Lake. Oswego County 2/5: 4 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Mitchell Street in Oswego. 40 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Sage Creek Road near Derby Hill. 2/7: A rare female TUFTED DUCK was found at Oswego Harbor. Fortunately it is hanging around and was seen as recently as today. A GLAUCOUS GULL was also seen in the Harbor area. A SURF SCOTER was seen in the River nearby. 35 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Mitchell Street in Oswego. 2/11: 60 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Rt. 57 about 3.5 miles north of Phoenix and just past the Great Bear Recreation Area. Compilers Note: This is the first week there has been no report of the TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE in Sampson State Park on Seneca Lake. If anyone tries for this bird please report positive or negative this week. -- end report 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] Northern Saw-whet Owl, Sapsucker Woods n. side of main pond 9:45 PM
Hi everyone, After the seminar at the Lab of Ornithology tonight (Monday) I was walking home through Sapsucker Woods when I heard the moderately high-pitched, repeated tooting whistle of a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL (or alternatively someone doing a good imitation of a Saw-whet...in which case please correct me on-list, but I was not aware of any other person in the area). The calling lasted for about 20 seconds before the bird went silent again. I didn't try to see the bird or call it in (no flashlight, and I didn't want to go crashing around disturbing it and everything else in the area). I think that the location of the calling was on the north side of the main pond in Sapsucker Woods, somewhere between the feeders along the pond and the the small bridge over the creek that flows out of the pond. I haven't heard a Saw-whet (or any other owl for that matter) after dark in Sapsucker Woods so far this winter in spite of walking through the woods a number of evenings this year, so it was a nice first for me this calendar year. Wesley Hochachka -- 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/ --
