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* New York * Syracuse * August 08, 2022 * NYSY 08. 08. 22 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 01, 2022 to August 08, 2022 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 08 AT 11:00 a.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org | | | | | | | | | | | (no title) Visit the post for more. | | | #805: Monday August 08, 2022 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 01, 2022 Highlights: ----------- LEAST BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON RED-SHOULDERED HAWK BLACK VULTURE SANDHILL CRANE WILSON’S PHALAROPE SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER WILLET RUDDY TURNSTONE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER BLACK TERN FORSTER’S TERN RED-HEADED WOODPECKER SEDGE WREN YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER PINE SISKIN BAY-BREASTED WARBLER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 8/5: A SEDGE WREN continues at the Morgan Road Marsh and was heard through the 7th. 8/6: 12 Shorebird species including SHORT and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and WILSON’S PHALAROPE were seen along the Wildlife Drive. Also seen on the Wildlife Drive was a LEAST BITTERN. 4 BLACK TERNS were seen fron VanDyne Spoor Road. Oswego County ------------ 8/3: A FORSTER’S TERN was seen at the Sandy Pone Outlet on Lake Ontario. 3 SANDHILL CRANES were seen at the pond on Biddlecum Road north of Phoenix. 8/4: 12 shorebird species including WILLET, RUDY TURNSTONE, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER AND BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet on Lake Ontario. 8/6: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen near Oneida Lake at Constantia. Onondaga County ------------ 8/5: 3 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were seen Onondaga Creek from Maltbie Street in Syracuse. 8/7: A SEDGE WREN was heard at 3 Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville near where one was found earlier this season. Madison County ------------ 8/2: A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen on the Colgate University bike trail in Hamilton. 8/4: 2 BLACK VULTURES continue at the McDonald’s Restaurant near the Thruway exit in Canastota. They were seen again on the 5th. and the 6th. Oneida County ------------- 8/3: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at Verona Beach State Park on Oneida Lake. 8/6: A BLACK VULTURE was seen at an abandoned building on Rt. 46 just south of Rome where 2 were seen numerous times this summer. It was seen again on the 7th. 8/7: An early migrant BAY-BREASTED WARBLER was seen on Lakeshore road near the northeast corner of Oneida Lake. 8/8: A PINE SISKIN was seen on Lakeshore Road on the northeast shore of Oneida Lake. Herkimer County ------------ 8/2: 2 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS were found near a bog on the south side of Stillwater Reservoir north of Big Moose lake in the Adirondacks. ---end report Region 5 Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, NY 13027 -- 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/ --
