RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 23, 2012 * NYSY 07.23.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
July 16, 2012 - July 23, 2012 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:July 23 AT 1:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #313 -Monday July 23, 2012 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 16 , 2012 Highlights: ----------- LEAST BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK UPLAND SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER ACADIAN FLYCATCHER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 7/21: A good variety of shorebirds were found at Knox-Marcellus and Puddler’s Marsh. Viewing from East Road and Towpath Road the following species were reported. GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, STILT SANDPIPER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, KILLDEER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER. At VanDyne Spoor Road LEAST BITTERN and BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON were found. Oswego County ------------ 7/17: Two UPLAND SANDPIPERS are still being seen at the Oswego County Airport from Howard Road. Cayuga County ------------ 7/22: 3 LEAST SANDPIPERS were seen at Fairhaven State Park behind the east channel breakwall. Onondaga County ------------ 7/23: The ACADIAN FLYCATCHER is still present at Whiskey Hollow. Jefferson County ------------ 7/22: A BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK was found yesterday near Clayton. No report today yet. Directions to the sighting are as follows: There's a report of a Black-bellied Whistling Duck in Jefferson County at Northern Marine near Clayton. Directions given to me are to take 12E east out of Clayton, turn left on May Irwin Drive and then left on Stearns Drive, the duck is at the end of the road and is with mallards. Good luck if you go! -- 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
