Hi all,
On my usual walk along the trails of SSW, near the south west end bench on
Wilson Trail I found some migrant.
There were three BLUE-WINGED, one CHESTNUT-SIDED (non breeding plumage),
one REDSTART and several RED_EYED VIREOS. There were more birds, but they
were all heading away from me
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* August 17, 2009
* NYSY1708.09
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
August 11, 2009 - August 17, 2009
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
In the cool shade of our hawthorn grove yesterday morning I
encountered a very friendly, vocal and colorful male Redstart. The
unusual thing about that is that we hadn't had one in the yard
previously this year. We had a nice, long visit as he hopped around
at eye level and tried out many var
