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*New York - Syracuse - May 28, 2019 - NYSY 05. 28. 19 Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert Dates: May 20 - May 28, 2019 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: May 28 AT 2:00 p.m. EDT compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondgaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week on May 20, 2019 Highlights: AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN BROWN PELICAN GLOSSY IBIS LEAST BITTERN BRANT black vulture RUDDY TURNSTONE BLACK-NECKED STILT RED KNOT AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER WHIMBREL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL COMMON NIGHTHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER ACADIAN FLYCATCHER YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER PHILADELPHIA VIREO PROTHONOTARY WARBLER ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER CLAY-COLORED SPARROW ORCHARD ORIOLE LAPLAND LONGSPUR Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 21 species of Shorebirds were recorded at the complex this week. Highlights were RED KNOT, WHIMBREL, BLACK-NECKED STILT and RUDDY TURNSTONE. 5/21: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was spotted on Mays Point Road. This may be a bird looking to nest as they have in the past. 5/22: A BLACK-NECKED STILT was found near the spillway on the Wildlife trail. It was present through the 27th. 5/23: A breeding plumaged LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen at Carncross Road. Up to 19 WHIMBREL have been spotted along the Wildlife Trail and are still being seen today. 5/24: A number of RED KNOTS were seen distantly from the Wildlife Trail. They are still being seen as of today. A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was seen briefly at Carncross Road. 5/25: An AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was seen at Carncross Road. It was seen again on the 26th. 5/26: A SANDERLING and an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER were see on the Wildlife Drive. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was found on the South Spring Pond Pool. PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS continue at the wooded area of Armitage Road. PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS were also found at Howland Island. 5/27: 3 GLOSSY IBIS were seen along the Wildlife Drive. A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen at Towpath Road. 5/28: 38 RED KNOTS1 WHIMBREL, 20 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 5 RUDDY TURNSTONES were found at the Wildlife Drive. Cayuga County ------------ 5/22: RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen on West Bay Road and at West Barrier Bar Park in Fair Haven. 5/23: 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES were seen at West Barrier Bar Park. 5/24: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER and a RED KNOT were seen at West Barrier Bar Park. Onondaga County ------------ 5/21: A LEAST BITTERN was found at the Dewitt Marsh off of Fisher Road . 5/23: An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER has returned to Whiskey Hollow west of Baldwinsville. 8 species of shorebirds including WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were found at the Gerber Top Soil Farm in Kirkville. 5/26: A BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was seen from the West Shore Trail on Onondaga Lake. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 5/27: 50 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen at a privete residence on Oran Delphi Road south of Manlius. Derby Hill Bird Observatory -------------------- 5/20 was a big day at Derby with 3,231 raptors counted, most being BROAD-WINGED HAWKS. 84 BALD EAGLES were counted that day also. Since then it has quieted down for the last week of the official count. Thanks to Karl Bardon for such a thorough job of counting, especially passerines. On 5/23 835 BRANT were counted. Oswego County ------------ 5/20: A BROWN PELICAN was seen and photographed from Sunset Bay Park on Lake Ontario. No further sightings have been reported. 5/21: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Great Bear Recreation Area north of Phoenix. A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was found at Peter Scott Swamp north of Phoenix. An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was seen on Oneida Lake from Constantia. It was seen through 5/25. 5/23: A RED KNOT was seen from Mill Street in Constantia. 5/25: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was see at Great Bear Recreation Area north of Phoenix. It was seen through the 27th.A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen at Sunset Bay Park on Lake Ontario. 5/26: A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen at Deer Creek Marsh south of Sandy Pond. Madison County ------------ 5/23: A SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER and a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen on Ditchbank Road north of Canastota. 5/26: A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and an ORCHARD ORIOLE were seen on Ditchbank Road. Oneida County ------------ 5/22: 3 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS and a GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH were found at Spring Farm Nature Sanctuary south of Clinton. 5/23: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen at Verona Beach State Park and another was seen further north along Lake Shore Drive. 5/26: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen at Lake Julia Preserve south of Forestport. Herkimer County ------------ 5/23: A BLACK VULTURE was seen on Jerseyfield Road north of Dolgeville. 5/25: A BLACK VULTURE was seen from Reese Road in Frankfort. ---- End Transcript ---- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, NY, 13027, USA -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
