RBA * New York* Syracuse* March 09, 2015* NYSY 03. 09. 15 Hotline: Syracuse
Rare bird AlertDates(s):March 02, 2015 - March 09, 2015to report by e-mail:
brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National
Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just
I wonder if when the half of the duck’s brain is sleeping the opposite foot is
kicking randomly like my sleeping dog does (and maybe I do it too!).
Or maybe this is akin to a screensaver: the duck keeps one leg kicking so it
doesn’t freeze in place!
Just some random theories….
ChrisP
Did a quick drive through the Lott Farm/Ridge Road area in Fayette (south of
Seneca Falls). No gyrfalcon but did see 2 harriers and 1 billion red-tailed
hawks. A perched then hunting Merlin was a treat. It snagged a pigeon! Fast
and angry.
David Diaz
Tburg, NY
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Hi all, I just had a Killdeer flying over my house and calling in northeast
Ithaca.
Brad
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Driving down 96 into town today, there was a suspiciously rusty-colored
snowball on the shoulder. I pulled over and walked back, and sure enough,
there was a red morph Eastern Screech-Owl. It was alive but looking poorly.
By the time I got my coat off to get my sweater off so I had something to
The owl: this evening at 5:45, just south of Long Point Orchard, Rt 90,
Ledyard.
Geese eagerly eating newly exposed grass along the roadside in Aurora.
Linda Van Buskirk
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*_THE male __H__arlequin!!_ Our treat for today. Lifers for daughter,
Becky me, tho' 17 yrs. ago I had seen a female at Sodus. Becky was
thrilled because she has thought Woodies Common mergansers are the
most colorful of the ducks. Beautiful day to be out. Less snow in
Oswego than in Union
