RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 25, 2011 * NYSY 07:25.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): July 18, 2010 - July 25, 2011 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 25 AT 10:00 a.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #264 -Monday July 25, 2011 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 18 , 2011 Highlights: -----------
GREAT EGRET GLOSSY IBIS SANDHILL CRANE BAIRD’S SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER RED-NECKED PHALAROPE BLACK TERN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 7/19: Good diversity and numbers of Shorebirds continues at Knox-Marsellus and Puddler’s Marshes. The two wet areas seen from East Road or Towpath Road.A berm seperates the two impoundments running north/south. Knox-Marsellus is on the west side and Puddler’s on the East. 12 species were noted: SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER and WILSDON’S SNIPE. BLACK TERN and SANDHILL CRANE were also present. 7/22: A GLOSSY IBIS was found in Puddler’s Marsh. It has not been relocated. 7:24: A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was found at Puddler’s Marsh. New shorebirds for the week are DUNLIN and BAIRD’S SANDPIPER. 25 GREAT EGRETS were seen at May’s Point Pond. Onondaga County ------------ 7/19: GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS were seen at a wet area on New seneca Turnpike and Lawrence Road near Skaneateles. 7/21: A SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER was seen at Dead Creek near the Seneca River west of Baldwinsville. Unfortunately the waters have since risen to normal levels and the shorebirds have left. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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/ --
