Yesterday afternoon at Stewart Park I saw and heard a/the distinctive Canada X domestic Greylag Goose among Canadas, Mallards, and American Coots in the shallow water and rotting ice at the southeast corner of the lake. This time I also noticed a broad clean white stripe on it between the gray
On my way in this morning, there was a lone snow goose in a field on
Honeypot Road. Hard to say if he was injured or not.
It was notable imo because you never see just one goose this time of year.
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Yet, yesterday the Bird Club field trip group going around the lake saw ONE
SNOW GOOSE fly from the shore area into the lake by the boathouse in Aurora!
Nearby hunters may have had some role in this, possibly.
One of them waved at us (uphill with scopes set up), as they roared by in their
A single Snow Goose by the Wells College boathouse in Aurora on Sunday is interesting to me because on Saturday I saw from that location a flock of about a thousand of them out in the middle of the lake. Perhaps they were all off feeding when you arrived, and this was just the first to return, or
The Townsend's Solitaire was still present at noon today near the Green
Gate at Sampson State Park.
Patrick Tanner
Cortland, NY
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Andy Guthrie
Hamlin, NY
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From: James Pawlicki jmpawl...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:02 PM
Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] No Gyrfalcon at Montezuma
To: geneseebird...@geneseo.edu
Bill Watson and I searched for the Gyrfalcon seen yesterday at the
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* January 14, 2013
* NYSY 01. 14. 13
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
January 07, 2013 - January 14, 2013
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands
Went searching for gyrfalcon that was seen yesterday at Knox, came up empty.
also, there was a lesser black-backed gull seen off of 31, but i also never
found it. I did, however, see an iceland and 2 glaucous gulls. glaucous gulls
were seen on both sides of 31, east of the potato building, and