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*New York - Syracuse - January 21, 2019 - NYSY 01.21.19 Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert Dates: January 14 - January 21, 2019 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: January 21 AT 12:00 p.m. EDT compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondgaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week on January 14, 2019 Highlights: RED-THROATED LOON BLACK SCOTER PEREGRINE FALCON ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK WILSON’S SNIPE ICELAND GULL SNOWY OWL NORTHERN SHRIKE EASTERN PHOEBE GRAY CATBIRD EASTERN TOWHEE WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW VESPER SPARROW HARRIS’S SPARROW EVENING GROSBEAK COMMON REDPOLL PINE SISKIN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ No reports this week. Onondaga County ------------ 1/15: An EASTERN TOWHEE continues at a feeder in Manlius and has been reported up to 1/19. A WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was again seen on the West Shore trail of Onondaga Lake. 1/16: 3 COMMON REDPOLLS were seen in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse. 1/17: A PEREGRINE FALCON was seen in Baldwinsville. 1/18: A VESPER SPARROW continues on Banner Road in Tully. A GRAY CATBIRD was seen on the Onondaga Creek Creek walk north of Hiawatha Blvd. in Syracuse. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen on Sunview Drive in Elbridge. 1/19: A BLACK SCOTER was seen on Skaneateles Lake in Spafford. An ICELAND GULL was seen in the Inner Harbor in Syracuse. 7 PINE SISKINS were at a feeder in Manlius. A SNOWY OWL was spotted at Hancock Airport in Syracuse. 1/21: 2 PINE SISKINS were at a feeder on Harrington Road in Syracuse. Oswego County ------------ 1/14: A RED-THROATED LOON was seen on Lake Ontario from Deer Creek Marsh. 1/15: A BLACK SCOTER was seen in Oswego Harbor. An EASTERN PHOEBE was seen on Dewitt Street in Oswego. 1/17: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen on Bishop Road north of Pulaski. 1/19: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen from Rt. 3 near Greene Point. A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was seen on Bishop Road north of Pulaski. Madison County ------------ 1/16: 40 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen on Eden Hollow Road east of Erieville. 1/18: An adult HARRIS’S SPARROW was seen and photographed at a feeder on Borden Road in Earlville. It was relocated on the 19th. No new reports since. A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was spotted on Eden Hollow Road. 1/19: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen on Chaphe Hill Road east of Erieville. 1 COMMON REDPOLL was seen at a feeder on Eden Hollow Road. Oneida County ------------ 1/14: 2 PINE SISKINS were at a feeeder in Oriskany. 1/15: 36 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen on Nightingale Road in Forestport. 1/19: 13 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen on Evans Road in Remsen. Herkimer County ------------ 1/15: EVENING GROSBEAKS continue at a feeder north of Dolgeville. 1/18: A WILSON’S SNIPE was seen in a wet area in the Town of Manheim south of Dolgeville. It was found again on the 19th. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, NY 13027 USA -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
