RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* June 03, 2013
* NYSY 06. 03. 13
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
May 27, 2013 - June 03, 2013
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:June 03 AT 6:30 p.m. (EDT)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
#357 -Monday June 03, 2013
Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of
May 27, 2013
Highlights:
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BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
GLOSSY IBIS
BLACK VULTURE
SANDHILL CRANE
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
WHIMBREL
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER
RUDDY TURNSTONE
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER
ORCHARD ORIOLE
EVENING GROSBEAK
PINE SISKIN
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
5/27: SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and RUDDY TURNSTONE
were found on the Main Pool.A WILSON’S PHALAROPE was seen at Knox-Marsellus
Marsh.100+ BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were seen flying over Knox-Marsellus Marsh.
1,300 DUNLIN, 600 SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS, 250 LEAST SANDPIPERS and 270
SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS were seen at the Main Pool and Kipp Island. 10 BLACK
TERNS were seen at Tschache Pool.
5/28: 2 adult and 2 young SANDHILL CRANES contunue at Carncross Road.
5/29: 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW were seen near the
Audubon Center north of Savannah.
5/31: A GLOSSY IBIS was found at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. It was relocated
the next day.
6/1: 2 first summer SANDHILL CRANES were seen at VanDyne Spoor road in the
marsh.
Derby Hill
1,459 raptors were counted on this last official week of the Count at
Derby. A BLACK VULTURE ON 6/1 was the raptor highlight. A YELLOW-BELLIED
FLYCATCHER was seen on 5/30. RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on 5/31. The main
attraction this week was COMMON NIGHTHAWK with 15 on 5/27, 19 on 5/29 and 131
on 5/31.
Onondaga County
5/28: 2 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen migrating over Dead Creek at the Town
of Van Buren Transportation Dept . west of Baldwinsville.
5/30: 3 recently fledged BARRED OWLS were seen in Whiskey Hollow. An
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was heard in back of the Town of Van Buren Tansportation
Dept. It has not been relocated.
5/31: A first summer male ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen at Ceder Bay Park in
Fayetteville. A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found on Meeker Hill Road in Tully.
6/1: The Onondaga Audubon Field Trip to Three Rivers WMA north of
Baldwinsville found 53 species. Highlights were a WILSON’S WARBLER and yet
another ACADIAN FLYCATCHER away from Whiskey Hollow. This bird was heard again
on 6/2.
Madison County
5/28: EVENING GROSBEAKS and PINE SISKINS continue to come to a feeder on
Carpenter Road near Shedds.
Oneida County
5/28: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen at the Turning Stone RV Park in Verona.
Oswego County
6/1: A WHIMBREL was seen on a rock outcropping near the Tern Island on
Oneida Lake from Constantia.
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A.
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