RBA * New York * Syracuse * November 11, 2013 * NYSY 11. 11. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
November 04, 2013 - November 11, 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:November 11 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #368 Tuesday November 11, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 04, 2013 Highlights: ----------- GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE KING EIDER LITTLE GULL BLACK-LEGGED KITTYWAKE SANDHILL CRANE RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD CLAY-COLORED SPARROW HARRIS’S SPARROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 11/10: 31 SANDHILL CRANES were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Onondaga County ------------ 11/5: A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOS was seen on Beaver Lake west of Baldwinsville. 11/6: 2 KING EIDERS were found at the Marina on Onondaga lake in Liverpool. They were refound on the 7th. and 8th. One bird was found on 11/9 but none have been since that date. Madison County ------------ 11/9: A HARRIS’S SPARROW was seen briefly on Ditchbank Road north of Chittenango. Efforts by others to find the bird were unsuccessful. A photo was taken of the bird. Oswego County ------------ 11/7: A LITTLE GULL was seen off the bluff at Derby Hill. 11/10: A first winter BLACK-LEGGED KITTYWAKE was seen from the bluff at Derby Hill. Herkimer County ------------ 11/6: A late CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was at a feeder north of Dolgeville. It reappeared the next day. Extralimital ------------ 11/10: A RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD has now stayed for a month at Dave Kennedy’s feeders on Mynderse Street in Seneca Falls. -- end report Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
