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*New York November 25, 2019 NYSY 11. 25. 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 25 at 10:00 a.m. EST Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 11, 2019 Highlights: -------------- RED-THROATED LOON RED-NECKED GREBE BLACK-CROWNED HERON CACKLING GOOSE SURF SCOTER BLACK SCOTER HARLEQUIN DUCK NORTHERN GOSHAWK BLACK VULTURE COMMON GALLINULE SANDHILL CRANE LITTLE GULL GLAUCOUS GULL ICELAND GULL SNOWY OWL NORTHERN SHRIKE SAVANNAH SPARROW CHIPPING SPARROW ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 11/22: 2 CACKLING GEESE were seen from Carncross Road. 11/23: A late SAVANNAH SPARROW and a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK were seen from East Road. Also from the same location an astounding 164 SANDHILL CRANES were counted in the Marsh. Cayuga County ------------ 11/22: 4 BLACK SCOTERS were seen at Fair Haven State Park in Lake Ontario. 11/25: 4 BLACK SCOTERS and a RED-THROATED LOON were seen on Lake Ontario from West Barrier Bar Park in Fair Haven. Onondaga County ------------ 11/18: A late ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake. A BLACK VULTURE was seen near the Jamesville Reservoir Fishing Access site. A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was seen in a wooded area near Spafford. 11/22: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen in the Big Fields area of Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 11/24: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen near the swimming pool in Van Buren Park in Baldwinsville. 3 RED-NECKED GREBES, 3 BLACK SCOTERS, a COMMON GALLINULE, a late RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and 4 RED THROATED LOONS were all seen on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake. Oswego County ------------ An adult male HARLEQUIN DUCK and up to 2 BLACK SCOTERS were present at Oswego Harbor through the week. The were seen along with a number of WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS mostly from the Fort Ontario parking lot. The Harlequin was not seen today but Black Scoters were. 11/22: A LITTLE GULL was seen from the overlook at Derby Hill. 1 GLAUCOUS and 1 ICELAND GULL was seen at Oswego Harbor.7 PINE SISKINS were seen near Cleveland on the north shore of Oneida Lake. Madison County ------------ 11/20: A RED-THROATED LOON was seen at the south end of Cazenovia Lake. Herkimer county ------------ 11/23: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was again present at the corner of Albany and Soncody Roads in West Winfield. ----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/ --
