RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 29, 2013 * NYSY 10. 29. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
October 21, 2013 - October 29, 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:October 29 AT 4:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #366 Tuesday October 29, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 21, 2013 Highlights: ----------- PACIFIC LOON AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN WHITE-FACED IBIS GLOSSY IBIS GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE ROSS’S GOOSE SANDHILL CRANE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER PARASITIC JAEGER ICELAND GULL FORSTER’S TERN RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Greetings birders! I’m relieved to say that after three months in the hospital and physical therapy my wife is home and recovering nicely. I do appreciate the kind words many of you sent to me during this time. Now it’s back to reporting Birds of the week. Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 10/27: Both the GLOSSY and WHITE-FACED IBIS were relocated, this time at the Visitor’s Center but were skulking in the grasses and were hard to see. At Knox-Marsellus Marsh both AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS are still there as well as SANDHILL CRANES, BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS, and a single ROSS’S GOOSE. Along Towpath Road an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen. 10/28: At Colvin Marsh just south of the MAC on Rt. 89 7 LONG-BILLE DOWITCHERS and a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were found. Oswego County ------------ 10/22: A PACIFIC LOON was spotted flying past Derby Hill from the bluff. 10/24: 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS, an ICELAND GULL and a FORSTER’S TERN were all seen from the bluff at Derby Hill. Onondaga County ------------ 10/24: A GREATER WHITE FRONTED GOOSE was found in the pond at Van Buren Park south of Baldwinsville. It was seen as recently as yesterday. 10/28: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville under the power lines east of 60 Road. Extralimital ------------ A RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD continues to visit a feeder on Mynderse Street in Seneca Falls. -- end report 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/ --
