RBA * New York* Syracuse* May 26, 2015* NYSY 05. 26. 15 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird AlertDates(s):May 18, 2015 - May 26, 2015to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison & Cortlandcompiled: May 26 AT 1:00 p.m. (DST)compiler: Joseph BrinOnondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #444 Monday May 26, 2015 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of May 18, 2014 Highlights:----------- GLOSSY IBISEURASIAN WIGEONBLACK VULTUREBLACK-BELLIED PLOVERWHIMBRELRUDDY TURNSTONEWILSON’S PHALAROPEAMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERCOMMON NIGHTHAWKRED-HEADED WOODPECKERACADIAN FLYCATCHERPHILADELPHIA VIREOORCHARD ORIOLE
Montezuma National Wildlife Complex (MNWC) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)------------ 5/19: 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES and an EURASIAN WIGEON were found along the Wildlife Drive. 5/21: 11 species of Shorebird were seen along the Wildlife Drive including 12 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS. 5/24: 13 species of Shorebirds were seen along the Wildlife Drive including a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER and 350 DUNLIN. A GLOSSY IBIS was also spotted. 3 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen in the swamp along Mays Point Road. 5/25: 10 species of Shorebirds were reported along the Wildlife Drive including an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, a RUDDY TURNSTONE. and 3 WILSON’S PHALAROPES. At Towpath Road 850 DUNLIN were counter. Also seen were WILSON’S PHALAROPE, PEEP, RUDDY TURNSTONE and a WHIMBREL. In all 16 species of Shorebirds were reported this week at the complex. They were: WILSON’S SNIPE, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, DUNLIN, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, KILLDEER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and WHIMBREL. Onondaga County------------ 5/18: 17 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were counted at Three Rivers WMA from Smokey Hollow Road north of Baldwinsville. More Nighthawks were seen each night at dusk this week. 5/19: An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was seen in Whiskey Hollow and has been seen and heard daily this week. 5/24: A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW has returned to Fenner Road north of the Jacksonville Cemetary in the Town of Lysander. A DUNLIN was seen on the new southern part of the West Shore Trail on Onondaga Lake. A WHIMBREL was found at the confluence of the Oneida and Seneca Rivers on River Road south of Phoenix. 5/25: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen on Apulia Road near the Onativia Methodist Church. Oswego County------------ 5/22: 3 WHIMBREL were seen migrating past Phillips Point on Oneida Lake. 5/24: 23 BRANT were seen from Phillips Point. DUNLIN and PEEP were seen on the Islands in Oneida Lake from Mill Street in Constantia. 5/25: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen near the Post Office in Cleveland on Oneida Lake. 5/26: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, perhaps the same one from the day before, was seen at Godfrey Point in Cleveland. Madison County------------ 5/20: A GREAT EGRET was seen flying over the Nelson Swamp. 5/22: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen at the intersection of Gee and Ditchbank Roads north of Chittenango. 5/24: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was spotted on Irish Hill Road south of Cazenovia. A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was spotted later in the day. Oneida County------------ 5/19: A WHIP-POOR-WILL was heard at the Preston Hill Road sand pit south of Camden. Herkimer County------------ 5/19: A BLACK VULTURE was spotted in the city of Little Falls. Cayuga County------------ 5/18: 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were spotted on the West Barrier Beach park in Fair Haven Jefferson County------------ 5/24: A GLOSSY IBIS was spotted at the Ashland flats WMA west of Watertown. Another GLOSSY IBIS, perhaps the same one, was spotted at Pillar Point not far to the south, -- end report Joseph BrinRegion 5Baldwinsville, 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/ --
