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*New York August 19, 2019 NYSY 08. 19. 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 19 at 11:00 a.m. Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 12, 2019 Highlights: -------------- AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON CANVASBACK BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER LAUGHING GULL RED-HEADED WOODPECKER ACADIAN FLYCATCHER YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER ORCHARD ORIOLE Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ Shorebirds reported at the complex this week. ------------------------------------------------------------- LEAST SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER SOLITARY SANDPIPER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS STILT SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER KILLDEER SEMIPALMATED PLOVER BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER RUDDY TURNSTONE PECTORAL SANDPIPER WILSON’S PHALAROPE WILSON’S SNIPE 8/16: An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN and a hatch year LAUGHING GULL were found at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Both were seen through yesterday although the Pelican moved to VanDyne Spoor Road in the Afternoon. 8/17: A CANVASBACK continues in Knox-Marsellus Marsh. A STILT SANDPIPER was seen at Mays Point Pool. 8/18: 11 species of shorebirds including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. A RUDDY TURNSTONE was seen at the big metal Eagle along the Wildlife Drive. Onondaga County ------------ 8/12: 2 COMMON LOONS and 19 COMMON GALLINULES, young and adult, were seen on Onondaga Lake from the West Shore Trail. 8/17: An immature BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen on the Onondaga Creek creek walk north of Hiawatha Boulevard in Syracuse. 8/18: A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was seen on Bardeen Road in Fabius. 8/19: An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, possibly a young bird, was heard in Whiskey Hollow west of Baldwinsville. Oswego County ------------ 8/17: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at a private residence in Hastings. An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen on Sage Creek Drive near Derby Hill. 8/18: 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen at Derby Hill Bird Observatory on Lake Ontario. Oneida County ------------ 8/15: 3 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS, 2 adults and a juvenile, were found at Verona Beach State Park near the camp store. ---- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
