RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* October 18, 2010
* NYSY 1810.10
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
October 11, 2009 - October 18, 2010
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),
Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison & Cortland
compiled:October 18 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
#226 -Monday October 18, 2010
Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 11
, 2010
Highlights:
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BRANT
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
ROSS’S GOOSE
SURF SCOTER
BLACK SCOTER
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
MERLIN
PURPLE GALLINULE
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER
PARASITIC JAEGER
PINE SISKINS
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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10/16: A PURPLE GALLINULE was seen in the main pool along the wildlife
trail about halfway between the second interpretive sign abd the carp spillway.
Unfortunately it has not been relocated.
10/17: DUNLIN, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were
found at the visitor’s center. At the new shorebird area 2 more WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPERS were seen. From Towpath Road a single ROSS’S GOOSE and 8 GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were spotted.
Onondaga County
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10/12: 21 species were seen along the Erie Canal Trail between Kirkville
and Poolsbrook. Included were RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.
10/14: A MERLIN was seen hunting pigeons on Willow Street in Syracuse.
Madison County
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10/14: A single PINE SISKIN was at a feeder in Erieville.
Cayuga County
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10/16: BRANT and SURF SCOTERS were seen at Fair Haven State Park.
BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was seen in a muck area on Victory-
Conquest Townline Road.
Oswego County
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10/16: 4 JAEGERS, probably PARASITIC, were seen from the bluff at Derby
Hill. Also seen were almost 2000 BRANT and 13 more species of waterfown
including all three Scoters.
10/17: 4 SURF SCOTERS were seen at Three Mile Bay on the north shore of
Oneida Lake.
10/18: 2 PINE SISKINS were at a feeder in Hastings.
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A.
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