[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA
 
*  New York
*  Syracuse
* January 21, 2013
*  NYSY  01. 21. 13
 
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
January 14, 2013 - January 21, 2013
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:January 21 AT 6:00 p.m. (EST)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
 
 
#338 -Monday January 21, 2013
 
Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of 
January 14 , 2013
 
Highlights:
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BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
MERLIN
ICELAND GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
SHORT-EARED OWL
SNOWY OWL
TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE
VARIED THRUSH
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
EVENING GROSBEAK
HOARY REDPOLL


Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)


 1/19: An adult male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was seen with Starlings on 
Armitage Road just off Rt.89 before Olmstead Road.


Onondaga County


 1/15: 4 immature BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS continue to be seen along the 
Onondaga Creek Creekwalk between Bear Street and Hiawatha Boulevard.
 1/16: A SHORT-EARED OWL made a one day appearance on West Sorrell Hill 
Road just north of Hoag Road south of Baldwinsville.
 1/18: A MERLIN was seen hunting in Camillus from Rt.695.
 1/19: Sixteen species of waterfowl were seen in the Onondaga Lake area 
including REDHEAD and SHOVELER. An ICELAND GULL was seen. The 4 BLACK-CROWNED 
NIGHT-HERONS were again seen on the creekwalk. 
 1/21: A GLAUCOUS GULL was seen on Onondaga Lake from the Butterfly Garden 
area.


Jefferson County


 1/17: 450 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Steinhelmer Road in LeRay. A 
female BARROW’S GOLDENEYE was seen at Fisher’s Landing on the St. Lawrence 
River.
 1/19: 3 SNOWY OWLS were seen in the area between Chaumont and Cape Vincent.


Oswego County


 1/18: A VARIED THRUSH was reported from a feeder in Fulton. Unfortunately 
no reports since the initial sighting.
 1/19: 40 EVENING GROSBEAKS were at a feeder on North Church Road in 
Boylston. 21 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Hinman Road southwest of Sandy 
Creek.


Cortland County


 1/20: 3 HOARY REDPOLLS were reported at a feeder in Cortland.


Extralimital


 1/19: Another positive report of the TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE from Samson 
State Park on the east side of Seneca Lake in Seneca County. The bird cotinues 
to be seen in the area at the north end of East Lake Road just south of the 
“green gate”.
     
    
     
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y.  13027  U.S.A.
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[cayugabirds-l] Lab of O Hoary Redpoll

[Brad Walker]

Hi all,

A Hoary Redpoll was seen earlier in the afternoon at about eleven thirty
this morning at the lab feeders. The large group it was with seems to have
returned to the front feeder area, so it might be worth checking from time
to time.

Brad

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird Conservation -- REALLY!

[sfernstr]

What comes to me first on this topic would be a local push to support the 
national effort to convince owners to have only indoor cats.

Sarah Fern

 Jody W Enck  wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 
>  When I think about the topic of bird conservation, I think about all the 
> great work that gets done at the local level.  In particular, I think about 
> conservation actions that increase bird habitat (e.g., habitat restoration 
> and management) as well as actions that slow down the loss of bird habitat 
> (e.g., conservation easements and set-asides).  There also are important 
> actions aimed more at birds than at bird habitat per se.  For example, I 
> think of the issues of used fishing line receptacles, putting up next boxes 
> or other structures (osprey platforms), etc.  I personally am thrilled that 
> the Cayuga Bird Club has recently started up a conservation committee to take 
> a more active role in bird conservation locally.
> 
>  All of this has gotten me thinking about how somebody knows that bird 
> conservation is occurring.  What kinds of things do we count as successes?  I 
> think there probably are lots of different possible answers.  I ask this 
> mostly because if we all want to (1) achieve more bird conservation on the 
> ground locally, and (2) attract more people to accomplish that conservation, 
> I think it would be particularly useful to understand and communicate about 
> what kinds of conservation “outcomes” we’d like to see happen.  I think it’s 
> hard to get my friends and neighbors interested in bird conservation if they 
> don’t really know what that means.
> 
>  I hope this stimulates some fruitful discussion.
> 
> Thanks.
> Jody
> 
> Jody W. Enck, PhD
> Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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[cayugabirds-l] juncos, no redpolls

[Nancy W Dickinson]

The strange weekend weather blew away all my redpolls (which had varied between 
2 and 30) but increased my juncos to a record 28.

Nancy Dickinson
Mecklenburg

Make a little birdhouse in your soul.


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[cayugabirds-l] Lab of O finches

[Laura Stenzler]

Good morning,
This morning there is a mixed finch flock at the north feeders at the Lab of 
Ornithology. This includes around 50 Redpolls, 5 Pine Siskins, 20 House Finches 
and ~10 Goldfinches.  These numbers are estimates and they keep changing as 
birds move in and out.  In addition, I've counted 7 Cardinals under the feeders 
at one time, 2 Tree Sparrows and  a small flock of Starlings.
Laura

l...@cornell.edu




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