RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 18, 2010 * NYSY 1810.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): October 11, 2009 - October 18, 2010 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 18 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #226 -Monday October 18, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 11 , 2010 Highlights: -----------
BRANT GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE ROSS’S GOOSE SURF SCOTER BLACK SCOTER WHITE-WINGED SCOTER MERLIN PURPLE GALLINULE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER PARASITIC JAEGER PINE SISKINS Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 10/16: A PURPLE GALLINULE was seen in the main pool along the wildlife trail about halfway between the second interpretive sign abd the carp spillway. Unfortunately it has not been relocated. 10/17: DUNLIN, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were found at the visitor’s center. At the new shorebird area 2 more WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were seen. From Towpath Road a single ROSS’S GOOSE and 8 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were spotted. Onondaga County ------------ 10/12: 21 species were seen along the Erie Canal Trail between Kirkville and Poolsbrook. Included were RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS. 10/14: A MERLIN was seen hunting pigeons on Willow Street in Syracuse. Madison County ------------ 10/14: A single PINE SISKIN was at a feeder in Erieville. Cayuga County ------------ 10/16: BRANT and SURF SCOTERS were seen at Fair Haven State Park. BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was seen in a muck area on Victory- Conquest Townline Road. Oswego County ------------ 10/16: 4 JAEGERS, probably PARASITIC, were seen from the bluff at Derby Hill. Also seen were almost 2000 BRANT and 13 more species of waterfown including all three Scoters. 10/17: 4 SURF SCOTERS were seen at Three Mile Bay on the north shore of Oneida Lake. 10/18: 2 PINE SISKINS were at a feeder in Hastings. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --