RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 09 2021 * NYSY 08.09. 21 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 02 to August 09, 2021 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 09 AT 6:00 p.m. (DST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #764 Tuesday August 09, 2021 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 02, 2021 Highlights: -----------
ROSEATE SPOONBILL WOOD STORK BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK PIPING PLOVER WILSON’S PHALAROPE SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER SANDERLING STILT SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER SANDERLING RED-HEADED WOODPECKER SEDGE WREN CERULEAN WARBLER GRASSHOPPER SPARROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCKS, the ROSEATE SPOONBILL and the WOOD STORK have all lingered this week at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. All three were seen yesterday but so far only the Spoonbill was seen today. 8/4: A SEDGE WREN was found at the south end of East Road. 16 species of Shorebirds including WILSON’S PHALAROPE, BOTH DOWITCHERS, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, SANDERLING AND STILT SANDPIPER were all seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. 8/5: The WILSON’S PHALAROPE and the WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were relocated at Knox-Marsellus. A STILT SANDPIPER was found on the Wildlife Trail. Onondaga County ------------ 8/3: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at the south end of Onondaga Lake. 8/6: An ORCHARD ORIOLE and a GRASSHOPPER were seen at Green akes State Park. 8/7: A CERULEAN WARBLER was seen and photographed on the Baldwinsville Community Trail. Oswego County ------------ PIPING PLOVERS continue at the Sandy Pond Outlet area. 8/4: 9 Shorebird species including 3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet. 8/8: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen at Derby Hill and another was spotted at the Deer Creek Marsh near Rainbow Shores Road on Lake Ontario. 8 species of Shorebirds including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet. 8/9: 5 Raptor species were seen in flight at Derby Hill.this birds are thought to be young birds in dispersal and not yet migrating. Madison County ------------ 8/7: A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was seen on Bonney Hill east of Hamilton. -----end report Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, New York 13027 Region 5 -- 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/ --
