RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 22, 2013 * NYSY 07. 22. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
July 15, 2013 - July 22, 2013 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:July 22 AT 2:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #364 -Monday July 22, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of Junly 15, 2013 Highlights: ----------- AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN LITTLE BLUE HERON BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON NORTHERN GOSHAWK STILT SANDPIPER WILSON’S PHALAROPE BAIRD’S SANDPIPER STILT SAMDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER BLACK TERN WHIP-POOR-WILL RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 7/20: An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was found in the afternoon at Knox-Marsellus Pool. It was seen briefly the next morning (7/21) and then took off and flew in a southerly direction. 7/21: Migrant Shorebirds showed up for the first day this summer in good numbers at Knox-Marsellus Pool. In all 8 species were found. Highlights included 1 WILSON’S PHALAROPE, a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, 16 STILT SANDPIPERS, 16 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and many hundreds of GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS and SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS. Other good finds were 2 SANDHILL CRANES, 8 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, BLACK TERNS and a rare for upstate juvenile LITTLE BLUE HERON in with a large group of GREAT EGRETS. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was again seen on Mays Point Road past the viewing area in the dead trees. Onondaga County ------------ 7/18: 2 first year and one adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were seen along the creekwalk near Bear Street in Syracuse. 7/20: A juvenile NORTHERN GOSHAWK was again seen between Crooked lake and Gatehouse Pond near Tully. Oneida County ------------ 7/21: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was again seen at Verona Beach State Park. Herkimer County ------------ 7/21: 2 WHIP-POOR-WILLS were heard in the Town of Salisbury near Rt.29. -- end report Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
