RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 11, 2014 * NYSY 08. 11. 14 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
July 28, 2013 - August 11, 2014 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 11 AT 6:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #405 Monday August 11, 2014 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 28, 2014 Highlights: ----------- GREAT EGRET BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON LEAST BITTERN BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER WHIMBREL RUDDY TURNSTONE STILT SANDPIPER RED-HEADED WOODPECKER ORCHARD ORIOLE Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ Shorebirds reported this week were WILSON’S SNIPE, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, BOTH YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, KILLDEER and SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER. All species were seen along the Wildlife Trail or at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Some, but nothing different, were seen at the northern complex areas. There was no report of the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN this week 8/7: Only one adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on Mays Point Road. Again only one was seen today also. 8/8: A LEAST BITTERN was heard only along the Wildlife Trail. 8/9: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Tschache Pool. Oswego County ------------ 8/6: A RUDDY TURNSTONE and a WHIMBRELL were seen at Oswego Harbor on the breakwalls. Onondaga County ------------ 8/9: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was found at Green Lakes State Park. A GREAT EGRET was seen in Dead Creek at the Town of Van Buren Transportation Department. 8/11: A juvenile BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen on the Onondaga Creek Creekwalk from Spencer Street. Cayuga County ------------ 8/6: A BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was spotted at the West Barrier Beach area at Fairhaven. Oneida County ------------ 8/7: A GREAT EGRET was found at Utica Marsh. -- end report 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
