RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 10, 2011 * NYSY 10:10.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): October 03, 2010 - October 10, 2011 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:October 10 AT 6:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #274 -Monday October 10, 2011 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 03 , 2011 Highlights: -----------
AMERICAN BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON CACKLING GOOSE GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE SANDHILL CRANE MERLIN BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER AMERICAN AVOCET LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER HUDSONIAN GODWIT RED PHALAROPE NORTHERN SHRIKE ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER NELSON’S SPARROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 10/3: The AMERICAN AVOCET remains at Puddler’s Marsh. It is actually still present today (10/10) so I will not mention it again in this report. Also seen at Puddler’s were 5 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 3 HUDSONIAN GODWITS. 10/6: 12 species of shorebird were found in Puddlers. They were: BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, AMERICAN AVOCET, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and DUNLIN. also found were SANDHILL CRANES. 10/7: 4 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS and an AMERICAN BITTERN were seen at tschache Pool. New shorebirds at Puddlers were AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and STILT SANDPIPER. 10/8: A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and a CACKLING GOOSE were seen at the Visitor’s Center. A RED PHALAROPE was found at the new Shorebird area. 10/9: The RED PHALAROPE was relocated in the same area. 1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT was found at Puddler’s. The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was relocated at the Visitor’s Center. 3 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were found at May’s Point Pool. 2 NELSON’S SPARROWS were seen at Martens Tract. 10/10: The GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was refound in the afternoon after being missing in the morning. A NELSON’S SPARROW was seen at Martens Tract. Oswego County ------------ 10/4A BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was seen from Fort Ontario at Oswego. Onondaga County ------------ 10/5: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW, a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER were found in the Sorrell Hill area south of Baldwinsville. 10/6: A MERLIN was seen at Schiller Park in Syracuse. 10/8: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found at the Town of Van Buren Transportation Dept. west of Baldwinsville. Cayuga County ------------ 10/8: An early NORTHERN SHRIKE was found on the west side of Fair Haven State Park. Also found were 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS. --end transcript -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
