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*New York September 16, 2019 NYSY 09. 16. 19 Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert To report by email: brinjoseph AT yahoo DOT com Reporting upstate counties: Onondaga, Oswego, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Cayuga, Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex Compiled: September 16 at 11:00 a.m. Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 09, 2019 Highlights: -------------- AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN GLOSSY IBIS SORA STILT SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER WHIMBREL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL COMMON NIGHTHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER PHILADELPHIA VIREO SWAINSON’S THRUSH AMERICAN PIPIT Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ Shorebirds seen at the complex this week. SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER KILLDEER SOLITARY SANDPIPER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS LEAST SANDPIPER PECTORAL SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER WILSON’S SNIPE STILT SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER 9/11: A GLOSSY IBIS was found in Knox-Marsellus Marsh and was seen through 9/15. A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was seen near Wilgoose Field on Rt. 89. 9/15: The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still being seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Nine species of Shorebirds including STILT SANDPIPER, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Also seen was the GLOSSY IBIS. Cayuga County ------------ 9/14: A LESSER BLACK-BACLED GULL was found at West Barrier Bar Park in Fair Haven. Also seen was a fly over WHIMBREL. 9/15: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER and a SWAINSON’S THRUSH were seen at Fair Haven State Park. Onondaga County ------------ 9/10: A WHIP-POOR-WILL was heard and seen at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 9/11: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER continued at Raddison River Park east of Baldwinsville. 9/13: an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen on the Erie Canal Trail in Fayetteville. 9/14: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was found at Three Rivers WMA. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Labrador Hollow Unique Area. 9/15: A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was seen on Eastman Road east of Northern Boulevard east of Hancock Airport. Oswego County ------------ 9/9: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen at Sandy Island State Park on Lake Ontario. 9/14: The RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was again seen at Sandy Island State Park. 5 AMERICAN PIPITS and a SANDERLING were seen at Oswego Harbor. 15 species of WARBLERS were seen along the Lake Ontario Lakeshore from Oswego to Mexico. 9/15: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at a private resicence in Hastings. A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen at Selkirk Shores on Lake Ontario. Madison County ------------ 9/11: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Tuscarora Nature park west of Erieville. 9/14: A SORA continues at the Madison Street Impoundment north of Hamilton. Oneida county ------------- 9/13: 15 species of Warblers plus a COMMON NIGHTHAWK and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO were seen at Spring Farms Nature Sanctuary south of Clinton. ---- End Transcript ---- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, NY, 13027, USA -- 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/ --
