RBA
* New York * Syracuse * November 22, 2021 * NYSY 11. 22. 21 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): November 15 to Novenber 22, 2021 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 22 AT 1:30 p.m. (DST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org | | | | | | | | | | | (no title) Visit the post for more. | | | #779: Monday November 22 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 15, 2021 Highlights: ----------- RED-THROATED LOON NORTHERN GANNET CATTLE EGRET ROSS’S GOOSE BARNACLE GOOSE GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE BLACK SCOTER SURF SCOTER KING EIDER OSPREY RED-SHOULDERED HAWK COMMON GALLINULE WILSON’S SNIPE ICELAND GULL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL PARASITIC JAEGER MARSH WREN RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET CHIPPING SPARROW PINE SISKIN RED CROSSBILL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 11/19: A BARNACLE GOOSE and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE were seen at the Visitor’s Center. The Greater White-Fronted Goose was seen again the next day. 11/20: Up to 6 CATTLE EGRETS are being seen on Laraway Road east of Rt.90. A MARSH WREN was seen at the Visitor’s Center. A ROSS’S GOOSE was seen at the Visitor’s Center. Another was seen on the Loop Road north of Rt. 31. 11/21: A WILSON’S SNIPE, a COMMON GALLINULE and a MARSH WREN were seen at the Visitor’s Center. Cayuga County ------------ 11/20: A RED-THROATED LOON was seen at Fair Haven state Park. Onondaga County ------------ 11/18: A first for the county NORTHERN GANNET was spotted in late afternoon of the 18th. on Onondaga Lake near the marshy spits. It was relocated the next morning with observers seeing it from the marshy spits and from the end of the Creek Walk. By early afternoon it could not be found. 11/21: A CATTLE EGRET was found on a farm on Pleasant Valley Road east of Marcellus. A RED-THROATED LOON and a BLACK SCOTER were seen from the Marshy Spits on the west shore of Onondaga Lake. A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was spotted on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake north of the Visitor’s Center. Oswego County ------------ 11/15: 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen from the bluff at Derby Hill. 11/16: A late OSPREY was seen at Sandy Island Beach on Lake Ontario. 11/19: 2 KING EODERS, 3 BLACK SCOTERS, a RED-THROATED LOON and a SURF SCOTER were all observed from the bluff at Derby Hill over Lake Ontario. An ICELAND GULL was seen from Selkirk Shores State Park on Lake Ontario. Madison County ------------ 11/20: 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and an ICELAND GULL were found at the Madison County Landfill south of Canastota. 11/21: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen at the Oneida Community Mansion Rail Road Trail south of Oneida. Oneida County ------------ A late RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETwas seen at North Bay on Oneida Lake. A late CHIPPING SPARROW was seen in Whitesboro. A RED-THROATED LOON was found on Oneida Lake at Blossvale. Herkimer County ------------ 11/19: A PINE SISKIN was seen at a feeder in Dolgeville. 11/20: 6 RED CROSSBILLS were seennear Windfall Pond north of Eagle Bay ---end report Region 5 Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, NY 13027 -- 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/ --
