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* New York * Syracuse * October 24, 2022 * NYSY 10.24. 22 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): October 17, 2022 to October 24, 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: October 24 AT 11:00 a.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org | | | | | | | | | | | (no title) Visit the post for more. | | | #813: Monday October 24, 2022 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 17, 2022 Highlights: ----------- SANDHILL CRANE BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON CACKLING GOOSE SURF SCOTER BLACK SCOTER RUFF HUDSONIAN GODWIT LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER FORSTER’S TERN LAPLAND LONGSPUR FOX SPARROW LINCOLN’S SPARROW PINE SISKIN EVENING GROSBEAK RED CCROSSBILL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ A HUDSONIAN GODWIT continues this week at the Visitor’s Center and at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. 10/20: A female RUFF was seen at the Armitage Road fields and continues thru 10/22. 10/22: A SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, a PECTORAL SANDPIPER and 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were at Armitage Road. 9 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and 80 SANDHILL CRANES were seen from East Road. Cayuga County ------------ 10/17: A PINE SISKIN was seen at Fair Haven State Park. 10/29: A FORSTER’S TERN and a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen at Fair Haven. 10/21: A BLACK SCOTER and 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were seen at Fair Haven. Oswego County ------------ 10/17: A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was see at Selkirk Shores State Park on Lake Ontario. It was present on the 18th. also. 10/20: 15 SURF SCOTERS were seen from the bluff at Derby Hill. 10/22: 7 Shorebird species including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were seen at Selkirk Shores. Onondaga County ------------ 10/17: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW was seen at the Boat Launch and Visitor’s Center on the west shore of Onondaga Lake. 10/23: 2 CACKLING GEESE were seen at Old Fly Marsh Preserve in Pompey. A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Lakeview Point on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake. Oneida County ------------ 10/22: A FOX SPARROW was seen at the Dwyer Road Swamp north of Verona. A SURF SCOTER was seen at the Verona Beach Lighthouse. Herkimer County ------------ 10/22: 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen at a feeder in Dolgeville. 10/23: A RED CROSSBILL was heare on Bear Creek Road east of Woodgate in the Adirondacks. ---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/ --
