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* New York * Syracuse * August 15, 2022 * NYSY 08. 15. 22 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 08, 2022 to August 15, 2022 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: August 15 AT 3:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #806: Monday August 15, 2022 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 08, 2022 Highlights: ----------- LEAST BITTERN GLOSSY IBIS BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER STILT SANDPIPER RED KNOT SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER RUDDY TURNSTONE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER FORSTER’S TERN SEDGE WREN GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER CLAY-COLORED SPARROW RUSTY BLACKBIRD PINE SISKIN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 8/10: A SEDGE WREN continues near the parking area on Morgan Road. 8/14: 9 Shorebird species including WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were seen at the Visitor’s Center. 11 Shorebird species including 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES were seen along the Wildlife Drive. Also found was a GLOSSY IBIS. 12 Shorebird species in all were counted between the two areas. Oswego County ------------ 8/9: 13 Shorebird species including 7 RUDY TURNSTONES, 8 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, a RED KNOT and a STILT SANDPIPER were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet on Lake Ontario. Also seen there was a FORSTER’S TERN. A LEAST BITTERN was seen at the pond on Biddlecum Road. An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER continues on Gray Road south of Oswego. 8/12: 11 shorebird species including a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER were found at the Sandy Pond Outlet. Onondaga County ------------ 8/10: A LEAST BITTERN was found at the Nine Mille Creek outlet on Onondaga Lake. 8/14: A SEDGE WREN continues to call at the Big Fields area on Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. Madison County ------------ 8/14: A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found on Peterson Hollow Road near Erieville. A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was seen at the Sullivan Town Park in Chittenango. Herkimer County ------------ 8/11: 6 Shorebird species including 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS were seen in the McKoons Road park north of Richfiels Springs. 8/12: A RUSTY BLACKBIRD was seen near Twitchell Lake north of Eagle Bay. ---end report Region 5 Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, NY 13027 -- 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/ --
