RBA
*New York August 05 2019 NYSY 08. 05 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: August 05 at 2:00 p.m. Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 29, 2019 Highlights: LEAST BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON GREATER SCAUP EURASIAN WIGEON SANDHILL CRANE STILT SANDPIPER UPLAND SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER STILT SANDPIPER ACADIAN FLYCATCHER GRASSHOPPER SPARROW RED-HEADED WOODPECKER SEDGE WREN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ Shorebirds (13) found at the Complex this week. LEAST SANDPIPER KILLDEER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER SOLITARY SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER PECTORAL SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER WILSON’S SNIPE 7/30: The SEDGE WREN found on East Road on 7/28 was seen again on this day and on the 31st. However the field where it has been has been cut and it has not been reported since. 8/2: 7 shorebird species including LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER were seen along the Wildlife Drive. 8/3: An EURASIAN WIGEON and 2 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were seen looking south from VanDyne Spoor Road. 9 species of shorebirds including SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER sere seen along the Wildlife trail. 8/4: 10 species of shorebirds including STILT SANDPIPER were seen along the Wildlife Trail. 7 SANDHILL CRANES, a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON and an ORCHARD ORIOLE were all seen from East Road. A LEAST BITTERN was seen in Malone Marsh on Savanna Spring Lake Road. Cayuga County ------------ 4/30: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen at West Barrier Bar Park in Fair Haven. Onondaga County ------------ A SEDGE WREN continues to sing but is very hard to see in the big fields area of Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsvile. 7/31: An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER continues at Whiskey Hollow Nature Preserve west of Baldwinsville. Oswego County ------------ 8/1: A GREATER SCAUP was seen in Oswego Harbor. Madison County ------------ 8/1: A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found on Mason Hill east of Hamilton. Oneida County ------------ 7/29: An UPLAND SANDPIPER was seen in a traditional spot in the Deerfield Grasslands south of Poland. 8/2: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on Vincent Ave in Verona Beach. 8/3: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on Drive 28 in Jewel at the east end of Oneida Lake. 8/4: 21 GREAT EGRETS were seen in the Utica Marsh WMA. ---- 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/ --
