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* New York * Syracuse * September 26, 2022 * NYSY 09. 26. 22 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): September 19, 2022 to September 26, 2022 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: September 26 AT 2:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #809: Monday September 26, 2022 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 19, 2022 Highlights: ----------- CACKLING GOOSE HUDSONIAN GODWIT WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER PARASITIC JAEGER LAUGHING GULL RED-HEADED WOODPECKER BLACK VULTURE PHILADELPHIA VIREO YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH SWAINSON’S THRUSH LAPLAND LONGSPUR This was a good week for migrating Warblers, Vireos and Thrushes. Keep your eyes and ears open. It will end soon. Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 9/20: A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was found on Howland Island. 9/24: A WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER was seen from East Road. 9/25: BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER were seen along the Wildlife Drive. A CACKLING GOOSE and 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS were seen from East Road . The Godwits were seen again today. Onondaga County ------------ 9/19: A BLACK VULTURE and a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER were both seen near the Dewitt Quarry. 9/20: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen at Green Lakes State Park. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Hancock Airport. 9/21: A CACKLING GOOSE was seen at Oneida Shores Parkin Brewerton. 9/22: 3 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were heard fron Jamesville Road in Syracuse. 9/23: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 9/24: GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were found at the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake and at Three Rivers WMA. An early LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen at Jamesville Beach County Park. 9/25: SWAINSON’S and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were found at Three Rivers WMA. Oswego County ------------ 9/21: A BLACK VULTURE was seen near the Walmart in Fulton. 8Shorebird species including BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet on Lake Ontario. 9/22: 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS and a LAUGHING GULL were seen from the bluff at Derby Hill on Lake Ontario. A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen at a home on Baum Road north of Central Square. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on West Lake Road south of Oswego. 9/24: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen near a home on Hinman Road north of Pulaski. 9/25: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen from Co. Rt. 24 in Minetto. A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was seen with BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER at the Sandy Pond Outlet. The Godwit was present again today. Oneida County ------------ 9/19: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Spring Farm Nature Sanctuary south of clinton. 9/23: 2 BLACK VULTURES continue at and abandoned barn on Rt. 46 south of Rome. ---end report Region 5 Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, NY 13027 -- 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/ --
