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*New York November 18, 2019 NYSY 11. 18. 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: November 18 at 4:00 p.m. EST Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org | | | | | | | | | | | (no title) Visit the post for more. | | | Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 11, 2019 Highlights: -------------- RED-THROATED LOON RED-NECKED GREBE CACKLING GOOSE SURF SCOTER BLACK SCOTER HARLEQUIN DUCK GOLDEN EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE ICELAND GULL SNOWY OWL HERMIT THRUSH GRAY CATBIRD PALM WARBLER NASHVILLE WARBLER NORTHERN SHRIKE VESPER SPARROW LAPLAND LONGSPUR EASTERN MEADOWLARK COMMON REDPOLL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 11/11: A late EASTERN MEADOWLARK was seen in the Wildlife Drive. 11/12: 2 CACKLING GEESE were seen in the Main Pool. 11/13: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen and photographed on the Wildlife Drive. 11/16: 141 SANDHILL CRANES were counted at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Cayuga County ------------ 11/16: A BLACK SCOTER was seen at Fair HavenState Park. Onondaga County ------------ 11/13: A COMMON REDPOLL was seen in Oakwood Cemetary in Syracuse 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen in a manure spread on Conners Road south of Baldwinsville. A late NASHVILLE WARBLER was seen in Van Buren Park south of Baldwinsville. 11/14: 2 late VESPER SPARROWS were seen on Hoag Road south of Baldwinsville. 2 KILLDEER were seen on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake. A HERMIT THRUSH was seen on DeMong Drive in Syracuse. 11/17: A KILLDEER was seen on Conners Road south of Baldwinsville. Oswego County ------------ 11/12: A KING EIDER and an ICELAND GULL were spotted at Derby Hill. 11/14: A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen on Bishop Road north of Pulaski. 11/15: An EASTERN MEADOWLARK was seen on Bell Road in Pennelville. 11/17: 3 possibly more, HARLEQUIN DUCKS were seen from Fort Ontario Park on Lake Ontario. All three SCOTERS were seen also. 11/18: A male HARLEQUIN DUCK was relocated at Fort Ontario Park on the lake in Oswego. Also found were all three SCOTER species, RED-THROATED LOON, ICELAND GULL and RED-NECKED GREBE. Madison County ------------ 11/12: A RED-THROATED LOON was seen at Woodman Pond north of Hamilton. 11/17: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen on North Peterboro Street in Canastota. A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was seen on Smith-Ridge Road north of Chittenango. A SURF SCOTER was seen on Bradley Brook Reservoir. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen on Eaton Brook Road in Erieville. Oneida County ------------ 11/12: A late PALM WARBLER was seen in Waterville. 11/13: 2 SURF SCOTERS were seen from Lakeshore Road at the north east end of Oneida Lake. Herkimer County ------------ 11/12: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen at the corner of Albany and Soncody Roads in West Winfield. 11/15: A late GRAY CATBIRD was seen in Little Falls. Extralimital ------------ 11/15: The first report of a SNOWY OWL was from the corner of Seybolt and Reese Roads south of Seneca Falls in Seneca County. The bird was reported again Today in the same location. ----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/ --
