[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

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

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Laughing Gull

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

[cayugabirds-l] Juvenile Laughing Gull, Stevenson Road

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

[cayugabirds-l] Irene's birds; Sapsucker Woods warblers this AM

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

[cayugabirds-l] jaeger

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

[cayugabirds-l] Another quiet Myers

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

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Mon 8/29

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