RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* August 29, 2011
* NYSY 29:08.11
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
August 22, 2010 - August 29, 2011
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC
We couldn't refind the Laughing among the few remaining gulls at the
compost, so Livia and I ran out to the white lighthouse. No luck with the
gull so far, but we just had a flyby juvenile SANDERLING that flew partway
down the canal, then circled back of the white lighthouse jetty, almost
landed on
Kevin just called to say he just had a juvenile LAUGHING GULL at the Cornell
Compost facility near the Game Farm on Stevenson Road. It was flying with
Ring-billed Gulls, but he has not relocated it after all the gulls took
flight. I will post if I find it in a few minutes.
--
Jay McGowan
Macaula
I had similar lack of success checking the east side of Cayuga Lake
yesterday. I probably should have stayed at Hog Hole, which was the only
location with anything of note, highlighted by an American Avocet and some
other interesting shorebirds. It seemed this far to the west in New York,
the storm
I stopped out at the white lighthouse jetty for an hour yesterday early
evening and at about 5PM I saw a jaeger passing by that had apparently been
flying down the center of the lake about 200-ft high. The bird was in direct
flight (no circling) with a 15 mph north tail wind. The bird continued
Livia and I watched from Myers Point from 7:00-8:30 this morning in hopes of
further storm-blow birds but failed to see anything out of the ordinary. A
couple of Semipalmated Plovers were still around, as well as several Purple
Martins and a subadult (maybe 3rd year) and an adult Bald Eagle. Has a
I found a few migrants early on Monday morning in Sapsucker Woods. The
highlight was a close, sunlit, beautifully subtle TENNESSEE WARBLER foraging
for a long time in the island of brush between the service driveway and the
hawk-watch knoll. Here I also saw a molting male SCARLET TANAGER and many