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*New York August 26, 2019 NYSY 08. 26. 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: August 26 at 11:00 a.m. Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 19, 2019 Highlights: -------------- AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN SNOWY EGRET BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON CANVASBACK REDHEAD WILSON’S PHALAROPE WHIMBREL RUDY TURNSTONE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER SANDERLING LAUGHING GULL COMMON NIGHTHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER SWAINSON’S THRUSH DICKCISSEL ORCHARD ORIOLE Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ Shorebirds reported at the complex this week. ------------------------------------------------------------- RUDY TURNSTONE SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER LEAST SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS KILLDEER STILT SANDPIPER PECTORAL SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER WILSON’S SNIPE WILSON’S PHALAROPE SOLITARY SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER An adult male CANVASBACK and at least two REDHEAD continue in Knox-Marsellus Marsh. 8/19: A RUDY TURNSTONE was seen along the Willdlife Trail. A first year LAUGHING GULL was again seen in Knox-Marsellus Marsh and has continued up to Sunday. No report yet today. 11 species of Shorebirds including a WILSON’S PHALAROPE were seen in Knox Marsellus Marsh. 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES were seen at VanDyne Spoor Road. 8/21: An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was again seen in Knox-Marsellus Marsh and continued through Sunday. A SNOWY EGRET was found in Knox-Marsellus Marsh and continued until Saturday. 8/25: A shorebird walk along Knox-Marsellus and Puddler’s Marshes produced 15 species of shorebirds and 95 species of avifauna overall. The most interesting non shorebird was a DICKCISSEL heard and seen in flight at the overlook. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was noted also. The WHITE PELICAN and the LAUGHING GULL were found but the SNOWY EGRET was a no show. Cayuga County ------------ A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was found on West Bay Road and a WHIMBREL was found at West Barrier Bar. Onondaga County ------------ 8/20: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen hawking in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse. 8/25: A female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER continues in the Seneca River in Baldwinsville. Oswego County ------------- 8/22: 3 SANDERLING, a PEREGRINE FALCON and a MERLIN were all seen at Oswego Harbor. 8/25: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen on HInman Road north of Port Ontario. A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen near Three Mile Bay on Oneida Lake. Madison County ------------ 8/22: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Woodman Pond north of Hamilton. 8/25: 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen at Woodman Pond. Oneida County ------------ 8/21: An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was seen near Lakeport on Oneida Lake. Herkimer County ------------ 8/23: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and a SWAINSON’S THRUSH were noted on Bald Mountain near Eagle Bay. ---- 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/[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/ --
