RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 28, 2014 * NYSY 07. 28. 14 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
July 21, 2013 - July 28, 2014 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 28 AT 1:30 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #403 Monday July 28, 2014 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 21, 2014 Highlights: ----------- AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON LEAST BITTERN STILT SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER SNOWY OWL RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 7/24: LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, STILT SANDPIPER and both YELLOWLEGS were all found at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. 7/25: An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN has again appeared in Knox-Marsellus Marsh and was still present yesterday. 7/27: In addition to the Pelican 12 shorebird species including STILT SANDPIPER and both DOWITCHERS were at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. BLACK TERNS and SANDHILL CRANES were present also. Along the Wildlife Trail eight (wow) LEAST BITTERNS were spotted. On Mays Point Road there are now two fledgling RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS being seen with the two adults. Onondaga County ------------ 7/23: ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS are still being seen and heard in Whiskey Hollow west of Baldwinsville. 7/24: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was found in the Inner Harbor area of Syracuse. 7/27: A lingering SNOWY OWL is still being sighted along Rt. 31 near the Target shopping area in Clay. Cayuga County ------------ 7/27: Two adult and one juvenile RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were again seen on West Barrier Beach at Fairhaven State Park. -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
