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*New York October 144, 2019 NYSY 10. 14. 19 Hotline: Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert To report by email: brinjoseph AT yahoo DOT com Reporting upstate counties: Onondaga, Oswego, Madison, Oneida, Herkimer, Cayuga, Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex Compiled: October 14 at 1:00 p.m. Compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 07, 2019 Highlights: -------------- YELLOW-CROWNED HIGHT-HERON TUNDRA SWAN SNOW GOOSE BRANT CANVASBACK BLACK VULTURE OSPREY BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER RED-HEADED WOODPECKER BANK SWALLOW CLIFF SWALLOW BARN SWALLOW VESPER SPARROW ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ Shorebird numbers picked up this week. BLACK-BELLIED P;OVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER DUNLIN LEAST SANDPIPER PECTORAL SANDPIPER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER SOLITARY SANDPIPER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS KILLDEER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER WILSON’S SNIPE Rather late CLIFF, BARN and BANK SWALLOWS were noted this week. 10/7: 9 species of Shorebirds including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER were seen from East Road. 10/8: 14 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen at Benning Marsh. 62 SANDHILL CRANES were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh Cayuga County ------------ 10/8: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at Fair Haven State Park. Onondaga County ------------ 10/8: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen under the power lines at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 10/9: A juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was spotted in a birch tree near the ampitheater on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake. It was seen through 10 12. 10/10: A BLACK VULTURE was seen at the fishing access lot at the south end of Jamesville Reservoir. 10/11: A LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was spotted at the mouth of Nine Mile Creek on Onondaga Lake. Oswego County ------------ 10/8: A TUNDRA SWAN was spotted at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario. A late OSPREY was seen at Phillips Point on Oneida Lake. 10/11: 160 BRANT were seen at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario. 10/14: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Sandy Island State Park on Lake Ontario. Madison County ------------ 10/8: A late OSPREY was seen near Woodman Pond north of Hamilton. 10/12: 3 SNOW GEESE were seen on Woodman Pond north of Hamilton Oneida County ------------ 10/11: A late VESPER SPARROW was seen at Utica Marsh. Herkimer County ------------ 10/12: A CANVASBACK was seen in the Mohawk River in Little Falls. ----End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
