[nysbirds-l] Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Tonawanda WMA (Genesee County)
Betsy and I looked from 7:50 to 9:35 a.m. this morning but did not see the BBWD. To give an idea of how difficult this duck can be to see, this now makes 7 and ¾ hours that I have looked for the bird and I have only seen it once for two or three minutes and that was after sunset! I thought we would have a better chance today because it was our first attempt in the morning, but no. I encourage others to continue to post to the lists on whether or not they see the bird. I for one, would still like a better look and many have yet to see it. DIRECTIONS: The BBWD was on NY 77, in a roadside marsh about 200 yards northwest of the Cayuga Pool Overlook (Iroquois NWR). NY 77 is a north-south highway that travels NW in the area of the refuge. Thus, the reason for the sometimes confusing directions. In any case, if you are heading north on Rt 77, Iroquois NWR and Cayuga Pool overlook are on your right and Tonawanda WMA is on your left. Note that there is an exit for Rt 77 from the NYS Thruway. The duck was on the Tonawanda WMA side of the road and likes to stay hidden in the cattails. Good birding and stay safe out there. The trucks really move through the area. Willie Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY dannapotterATroadrunner.com http://www.betsypottersart.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 16, 2010 * NYSY 1608.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 09, 2009 - August 16, 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:August 16 AT 4:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #217 -Monday August 16, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 09 , 2010 Highlights: --- GREAT EGRET SNOW GOOSE RUDDY DUCK BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK (Extralimital) MERLIN SANDHILL CRANE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER WHIMBREL STILT SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER WILSON’S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE COMMON NIGHTHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (Extralimital FISH CROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 8/11: At Knox-Marsellus Marsh there was good shorebird activity. Reported for the day were 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 3 WILSON’S PHALAROPES, 3 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, and STILT SANDPIPER. On 8/13 one of the RED-NECKED PHALAROPES was relocated. Madison County 8/10: At the turf farm on Lakeport Road north of Chittenango: PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and MERLIN. 8/13: At the turf farm: 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS and on the 15th. 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. Oswego County 8/14: 2 GREAT EGRETS were seen at the golf course on Rt.49 in West Monroe. They were seen again on the 13th.8/14: A total of 146 raptors in 9 species were seen moving at Derby Hill. A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was seen on Mcloud Road in West Monroe. Onondaga County 8/11: A SNOW GOOSE was seen at Mercer Park in Baldwinsville. One FISH CROW was heard in a group of birds on Hiawatha Boulevard in Syracuse. 8/15: One RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was spotted in the swamp on Fenner Road. A RUDDY DUCK was seen on Beaver Lake. Cayuga County 8/16: A WHIMBREL was seen flying from West Bay Beach at Fairhaven Extralimital A BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was found at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area (Buffalo area) on 8/11. See Geneseebirds for details. The bird has been throughout the week but has not been found today as of yet. A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was found in the Binghamton area on 8/13. However, the bird is on private property and is not accessible to the public. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Pikes Beach, L.I., August16th
Hi All, As of 11 am today at least 5 of yesterday's 6 Marbled Godwits were in view at Pikes Beach. Good August Birding, Carl Starace -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Whimbrel
I spent my morning birding around the Cayuga/Wayne County line near Lake Ontario, with a migrant WHIMBREL being the highlight for the day. I was birding along the West Bay Beach in Fair Haven in Cayuga County, just on the western side of Little Sodus Bay, when I heard a series of 7-10 short, repeated notes over and over again. It took me a few seconds to realize I was hearing the call of a Whimbrel. I followed the sound to eventually find the bird doing circles over the lake, looking as if it wanted to land. I watched it for a few minutes as it circled around, but instead of landing, it just kind of straightened out its path and headed south over the bay. Aside from the Whimbrel, the only other notable migrants I saw here were a few YELLOW WARBLERS. In Wayne County, driving west along Kakat Rd, some highlights included a GREEN HERON, a Red-Tailed Hawk on the ground mantling some prey alongside the road, and an immature BALD EAGLE overhead. I drove to the end of Broadway Rd and found 2 more juvenile eagles soaring over the lakeshoreand then 2 more for a total of 5 young Bald Eagles flying together. They stayed in the general area just cruising overhead, not really going anywhere but just enjoying riding the breeze off the lake. I backtracked east on Kakat Rd to take the next road that headed north to the lake - Howland Rd, and found an adult Bald Eagle perched in a tree along the lake shore about 1/4 mile west of the end of the road. This strengthened my suspicion that there must be a nest somewhere nearby. Its amazing to see how well this species has recovered in this sate. Also, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER literally jumped out into the road in front of me and led me 0.3 miles down the road (at speeds up to 17 MPH) before finally veering off back into the grass. Another family saved, I guess - although I would think it is a bit late for that. Who knows? I next visited the Black Creek Marsh Unit of the Lakeshore Marshes WMA at the end of Fields Hill Rd. There was a trail of beaten down vegetation from where some vehicles had gone around the barrier posts designed to keep them out, so I followed it north for a bit. About 700 feet down the makeshift path I came to an area near where a tree had fallen down, and found a nice pocket of birds, including 3 HOUSE WRENS, several CHICKADEES, an OVENBIRD, a BROWN CREEPER, 3 TOWHEES (including one kinda ugly looking juvenile), a CATBIRD, 3 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, a PEWEE, 2 CARDINALS, a DOWNY WOODPECKER, a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, a HUMMINGBIRD and 2 CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLERS. On the way home, I drove past the pony farm on Lamson Rd in Lysander (Onondaga County). There were 2 KILLDEER and 1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER near the pond, and 8 more KILLDEER spread out in the grass. At the State Fair parking lots in Syracuse I counted 43 KILLDEER and 0 Golden-Plovers. Mickey Scilingo North Syracuse Onondaga County, NY mickey.scili...@gte.net 315-679-6299 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Fwd: (NY) Loggerhead Shrike on PRIVATE property, 8/16 (Binghamton area)
Monday, 16 August 2010 NOTE the PRIVATE PROPERTY restrictions posted below: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html#1281976719 http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html#1281975821 This is from the publicly-accessible website available to well, everyone with internet access (& not from the Cayuga-Birds list itself) - anyhow if you're a member of the Naturalists Club of Broome County New York then you *may* have permission to join a group to seek the shrike. A great sighting for the state, and note the first (as reported) county record for Eastern Willet. this NYS logggerhead shrike photos, by David Nicosia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/4897681843/ - - - - - - - White Ibis are being seen in a number of locations south of NY, including central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg area). As is typical of these post-fledging dispersals away from breeding areas, many, perhaps almost all, of these birds are juveniles rather than adult. Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Long-tailed Jaeger, Niagara County
August 16 - Jim Pawlicki and David Wheeler just called to report they saw a intermediate juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger at Fort Niagara State Park between 9:50 and 9:55 PM. The bird was observed from the lawn near the big Parking lot at Fort Niagara. It was over Lake Ontario. Also: 120 Common Terns 6 Black Terns 80 Boneparte's Gulls Bill Watson Buffalo Ornithological Society -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 16, 2010 * NYSY 1608.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 09, 2009 - August 16, 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:August 16 AT 4:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #217 -Monday August 16, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 09 , 2010 Highlights: --- GREAT EGRET SNOW GOOSE RUDDY DUCK BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK (Extralimital) MERLIN SANDHILL CRANE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER WHIMBREL STILT SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER WILSON’S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE COMMON NIGHTHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (Extralimital FISH CROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 8/11: At Knox-Marsellus Marsh there was good shorebird activity. Reported for the day were 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 3 WILSON’S PHALAROPES, 3 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, and STILT SANDPIPER. On 8/13 one of the RED-NECKED PHALAROPES was relocated. Madison County 8/10: At the turf farm on Lakeport Road north of Chittenango: PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and MERLIN. 8/13: At the turf farm: 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS and on the 15th. 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS. Oswego County 8/14: 2 GREAT EGRETS were seen at the golf course on Rt.49 in West Monroe. They were seen again on the 13th.8/14: A total of 146 raptors in 9 species were seen moving at Derby Hill. A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was seen on Mcloud Road in West Monroe. Onondaga County 8/11: A SNOW GOOSE was seen at Mercer Park in Baldwinsville. One FISH CROW was heard in a group of birds on Hiawatha Boulevard in Syracuse. 8/15: One RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was spotted in the swamp on Fenner Road. A RUDDY DUCK was seen on Beaver Lake. Cayuga County 8/16: A WHIMBREL was seen flying from West Bay Beach at Fairhaven Extralimital A BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was found at the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area (Buffalo area) on 8/11. See Geneseebirds for details. The bird has been throughout the week but has not been found today as of yet. A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was found in the Binghamton area on 8/13. However, the bird is on private property and is not accessible to the public. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Tonawanda WMA (Genesee County)
Betsy and I looked from 7:50 to 9:35 a.m. this morning but did not see the BBWD. To give an idea of how difficult this duck can be to see, this now makes 7 and ¾ hours that I have looked for the bird and I have only seen it once for two or three minutes and that was after sunset! I thought we would have a better chance today because it was our first attempt in the morning, but no. I encourage others to continue to post to the lists on whether or not they see the bird. I for one, would still like a better look and many have yet to see it. DIRECTIONS: The BBWD was on NY 77, in a roadside marsh about 200 yards northwest of the Cayuga Pool Overlook (Iroquois NWR). NY 77 is a north-south highway that travels NW in the area of the refuge. Thus, the reason for the sometimes confusing directions. In any case, if you are heading north on Rt 77, Iroquois NWR and Cayuga Pool overlook are on your right and Tonawanda WMA is on your left. Note that there is an exit for Rt 77 from the NYS Thruway. The duck was on the Tonawanda WMA side of the road and likes to stay hidden in the cattails. Good birding and stay safe out there. The trucks really move through the area. Willie Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY dannapotterATroadrunner.com http://www.betsypottersart.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
