[nysbirds-l] Syracuse RBA

RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse *  October 24, 2011 *  NYSY 10:24.11   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): October 17, 2010 - October 24, 2011 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (

[nysbirds-l] Virginia Rail in Midtown!

Someone sent me a photo of an "unusual bird" they saw this afternoon in Harold Sq. Park... I get a lot of these messages and assumed it would be a funny-looking pigeon, but it was actually a Virginia Rail sitting on a stone bench! - Gabriel Willow NYC Audubon -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://w

[nysbirds-l] Snow Goose (blue form) at Huegonot Lake, New Rochelle High School

Had a juvenile blue form Snow Goose with a flock of Canada Geese at Huegonot Lake in front of the New Rochelle High School on Main St. this afternoon around 3pm.   Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist/Wildlife Biologist 37 Tanglewylde Avenue Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708

[nysbirds-l] Target Sparrows in Brooklyn

Plumb Beach & Floyd Bennett Field 24 Oct Joe Giunta & I (Sy Schiff) went to Plumb Beach and after a bit of trying brought up 3 NELSON'S SPARROWS. Otherwise the marsh was quiet except for a Great Egret, some Savannah Sparrows and a soaring Peregrine Falcon. We stopped at Floyd Bennett Fiel

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Lots of Blackpoll Warblers!!

While watching the morning flight at Robert Moses SP, southwestern Suffolk County, on 22 Oct, I was reminded of Willie's note regarding 145+ Blackpoll Warblers in western NYS two weeks prior, on 9 Oct. Patricia Lindsay and I counted at least 13 Blackpolls at Fire Island this Saturday, among a se