RBA
*New York July 29 2019 NYSY 07. 29 19 Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert To report by email: brinjoseph AT yahoo DOT com Reporting upstate counties: Onondaga, Oswego, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Cayuga, Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex Compiled: July 29 at 4:00 p.m. Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 22, 2019 Highlights: COMMON LOON BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON CANVASBACK PIPING PLOVER STILT SANDPIPER UPLAND SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER BLACK TERN SEDGE WREN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ Shorebirds seen at the complex this week KILLDEER STILT SANDPIPER LEAST SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER SOLITARY SANDPIPER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER PECTORAL SANDPIPER 7/25: 7 species of shorebirds including a STILT SANDPIPER were seen along the Wildlife Trail. 7/27: 2 STILT SANDPIPERS and 40 BLACK TERNS were seen from VanDyne Spoor Road. A SEDGE WREN was found on the east side of East Road near the house #400. 7/28: A male CANVASBACK continues at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. The SECGE WREN was again heard on East Road. 9 species of shorebirds including a SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER were found along the Wildlife Trail. 7/29: The SEDGE WREN continues on East Road. Onondaga county ------------ The SEDGE WREN found on 7/14 at Three Rivers WMA in the big fields east of 60 Road continues to sing as recently as today. 7/25: A STILT SANDPIPER was found in the marshy spit area at the southwest end of Onondaga Lake. 7/26: 3 adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were seen on the Onondaga creek creekwalk just north of Hiawatha Boulevard. Oswego County ------------ 7/26: 2 juvenile PIPING PLOVERS were again seen on the beach north of Sandy Island State Park. An UPLAND SANDPIPER was seen at the Oswego County Airfield on Howard Road along with 6 other shorebird species. Madison County ------------ 7/24: A COMMON LOON was spotted on Deruyter Reservoir. 7/29: 19 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS were seen at Easton Brook Mill Pond. Herkimer County ------------ 7/23: A SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER was found at the Mckoons Road pond north of Richfield Springs. 7/24: The Dowitcher was not seen but 6 species of shorebirds were again at the Mckoons Road Pond. ---- End Transcript ---- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, NY, 13027, USA -- 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/ --
