RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 02, 2010 * NYSY 0208.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): July 26, 2009 - August 02, 2010 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 02 AT 3:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #215 -Monday August 02, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 26 , 2010 Highlights: -----------
BLUE-WINGED TEAL WHITE-TAILED KITE (Extralimital) SANDHILL CRANE MERLIN STILT SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER WILSON’S PHALAROPE BLACK TERN PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 7/26: Knox-Marsellus Marsh continues to host a wealth of shorebirds. Birds seen this day and most of the week were STILT SANDPIPER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, and PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Also seen on the 26th. were BLACK TERN, GREAT EGRET, TRUMPETER SWAN and six species of duck including BLUE-WINGED TEAL. 7/31: A WILSON’S PHALAROPE was added to the mix at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was again spotted in the trees near May’s Point Pool. 7 SANDHILL CRANES were seen near the intersection Rt.89 and Armitage Road. Onondaga County ------------ 7/27: KILDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, and LESSER YELLOWLEGS were seen in the pond at Three Rivers WMA where the Eagles nest is. Extralimital ------------ 8/1: A WHITE-TAILED KITE was located at Stratford Point in Stratford Connecticut on the Long Island Sound. The bird was relocated today and was observed by many birders. Stratford is near Bridgeport. For further details go to Connecticut Birds using Birdingonthe.net. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --