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NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Tuesday, September 27, 2022. 1. Informal Memorial Gathering for Sherry (Gerry) Leigh Smith on 9/30/22 2. The Winter Finch Forecast is Live 3. Syracuse area RBA 4. Central Park NYC, Mon. Sept. 26, 2022: Broad-winged Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, 12 Species of Wood Warblers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Informal Memorial Gathering for Sherry (Gerry) Leigh Smith on 9/30/22 From: "Joan Collins" <joancoll...@adirondackavianexpeditions.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:35:08 -0400 X-Message-Number: 1 Hi Everyone, Mary Beth Warburton has planned an informal memorial gathering for friends of Sherri (Gerry) Leigh Smith, who passed on 9/13, this coming Friday, September 30 at Derby Hill from 2 to 3 p.m. Please feel free to just show up. The gathering will be at the sanctuary headquarters (main north lookout) at the top of a hill on a bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Directions can be found online. If there are any questions, Mary Beth Warburton can be reached at msmarybeth.warbur...@gmail.com <mailto:msmarybeth.warbur...@gmail.com> or 315-212-0722 (Cell). The weather forecast for 9/30 at Derby Hill shows a sunny day with a temperature around 60 degrees. The NYS Ornithological Association Annual Meeting is being held September 30 - October 2, and there are no events scheduled until Friday evening. Mary Beth planned the informal memorial gathering date and time so any Annual Meeting attendees who would like to come can attend. Derby Hill is about a 30 minute drive to the Annual Meeting location on Lake Ontario. There will be a formal memorial service held in early spring 2023: Obituary for Gerald A. Smith | Coffey Funeral Home <https://www.coffeyfuneralhome.com/obituary/Gerald-A-Smith> . Please feel free to forward this message to other list serves. Joan Collins Long Lake, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: The Winter Finch Forecast is Live From: Ryan Mandelbaum <ryan.f.mandelb...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:42:52 -0400 X-Message-Number: 2 Hi all, This year's winter finch forecast is now live, and predicts that there could be finches around outside of the boreal forest areas this year. Read more here: https://finchnetwork.org/winter-finch-forecast-2022-2023 -- Ryan F. Mandelbaum Science Writer | Nerd [Placeholder for future accolades] ryan.f.mandelb...@gmail.com http://ryanfmandelbaum.com <http://ryanfmandelbaum.weebly.com/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Syracuse area RBA From: Joseph Brin <brinjos...@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:22:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Message-Number: 3 RBA * New York * Syracuse * September 26, 2022 * NYSY 09. 26. 22 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): September 19, 2022 to September 26, 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: September 26 AT 2:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org<http://www.onondagaaudubon.org> #809: Monday September 26, 2022 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 19, 2022 Highlights: ----------- CACKLING GOOSE HUDSONIAN GODWIT WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER PARASITIC JAEGER LAUGHING GULL RED-HEADED WOODPECKER BLACK VULTURE PHILADELPHIA VIREO YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH SWAINSON’S THRUSH LAPLAND LONGSPUR This was a good week for migrating Warblers, Vireos and Thrushes. Keep your eyes and ears open. It will end soon. Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 9/20: A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was found on Howland Island. 9/24: A WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER was seen from East Road. 9/25: BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER were seen along the Wildlife Drive. A CACKLING GOOSE and 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS were seen from East Road . The Godwits were seen again today. Onondaga County ------------ 9/19: A BLACK VULTURE and a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER were both seen near the Dewitt Quarry. 9/20: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen at Green Lakes State Park. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Hancock Airport. 9/21: A CACKLING GOOSE was seen at Oneida Shores Parkin Brewerton. 9/22: 3 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were heard fron Jamesville Road in Syracuse. 9/23: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 9/24: GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were found at the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake and at Three Rivers WMA. An early LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen at Jamesville Beach County Park. 9/25: SWAINSON’S and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were found at Three Rivers WMA. Oswego County ------------ 9/21: A BLACK VULTURE was seen near the Walmart in Fulton. 8Shorebird species including BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet on Lake Ontario. 9/22: 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS and a LAUGHING GULL were seen from the bluff at Derby Hill on Lake Ontario. A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen at a home on Baum Road north of Central Square. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on West Lake Road south of Oswego. 9/24: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen near a home on Hinman Road north of Pulaski. 9/25: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen from Co. Rt. 24 in Minetto. A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was seen with BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER at the Sandy Pond Outlet. The Godwit was present again today. Oneida County ------------ 9/19: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Spring Farm Nature Sanctuary south of clinton. 9/23: 2 BLACK VULTURES continue at and abandoned barn on Rt. 46 south of Rome. ---end report Region 5 Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, NY 13027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Central Park NYC, Mon. Sept. 26, 2022: Broad-winged Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, 12 Species of Wood Warblers From: Deborah Allen <dalle...@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 21:41:29 +0000 X-Message-Number: 4 Central Park NYC Monday September 26, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Broad-winged Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, Lincoln's Sparrow, 12 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee and Cape May Warblers. Canada Goose - 12 Mallard - 6 Mourning Dove - 19 Chimney Swift - 10-15 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 at the Oven Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 hatch-year Triplet's Bridge Broad-winged Hawk - 1 hatch-year perched at Azalea Pond Red-tailed Hawk - 1 immature flyover Belted Kingfisher - 1 female Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Tupelo Field Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4-5 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 8-12 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Strawberry Fields (Peter Haskel) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 20-30 migrants in small flocks American Crow - 3-4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7-10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden Carolina Wren - 1 Maintenance Field Gray Catbird - 10-15 Brown Thrasher - 20-25 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Maintenance Field Swainson's Thrush - 5-7 Wood Thrush - 1 Swampy Pin Oak American Robin - 15-20 House Finch - 3-4 Chipping Sparrow - 1 hatch-year Maintenance Field Song Sparrow - 2 lawn adjacent to Turtle Pond Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 Strawberry Fields (Bob & Kaz - early) Baltimore Oriole - 4-5 Common Grackle - 20-30 northbound flyovers Turtle Pond Ovenbird - 1 in the Ramble Northern Waterthrush - 1 Wagner Cove Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Tupelo Field (Dan Stevenson) Common Yellowthroat - 3-5 American Redstart - 5-7 Cape May Warbler - 5 Northern Parula - 20-25 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Blackpoll Warbler - 1 east of Azalea Pond Black-throated Blue Warbler - 8-10 Pine Warbler - 2 King of Poland Scarlet Tanager - 2 (Turtle Pond, Ramble) Northern Cardinal - 4-6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5 -- @gigpalileo reported a Black-billed Cuckoo at Tupelo Field this morning: https://twitter.com/gigpalileo/status/1574443988089802757/photo/1 -- Deb Allen --- END OF DIGEST -- 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/ --