[nysbirds-l] Syracuse area RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA

 

*  New York

*  Syracuse

* August 01, 2022

* NYSY  08. 01. 22

 

Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert

Dates(s): July 25, 2022 to August 01, 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 01  AT 2:00 p.m. (EDT)

compiler: Joseph Brin

Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org


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#804: Monday August 01, 2022 

 

Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of 

July 25, 2022

 

Highlights:

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LEAST BITTERN

BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON

SANDHILL CRANE

WILSON’S PHALAROPE

SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER

RED-HEADED WOODPECKER

BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER

SEDGE WREN

SWAINSON’S THRUSH

GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH

CERULEAN WARBLER

ORCHARD ORIOLE

GRASSHOPPER SPARROW

RED CROSSBILL

























Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)






     7/26: 7 Shorebird species including 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen 
along the Wildlife Drive.

     7/28: A SEDGE WREN was found at the Morgan Road Marshes. It was seen up to 
7/31. 

     7/30: A WILSON’S PHALAROPE and 2 STILT SANDPIPERS were seen along the 
Wildlife Drive.A LEAST BITTERN was found at Tschache Pool. 3 CERULEAN WARBLERS 
were seen at the forested area of Armitage Road.

     7/31: A LEAST BITTERN was found at the Morgan Road Marshes.







Oswego County






     7/31: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen at the corner of Rt. 104 and Fred 
Haynes Boulevard.







Onondaga County






     7/26: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen along Onondaga Creek at Maltbie 
Road in Syracuse.

     7/27: A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was seen at Cedar Bay Park in Fayetteville.







Madison County






     7/29: 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were found near Hatch Lake west of Hamilton. 
A RED CROSSBILL was found at the Earlville State Forest.

     7/31: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on West Lake Road at the north end 
of Cazenovia Lake.







Oneida County






     7/26: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen in the Rome Cemetery.

     7/27: At least one RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at Verona Beach State 
Park.







Herkimer County






     7/29: A SANDHILL CRANE was seen on Johnson Road in Ilion.

     7/31: A BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was seen on the Third Lake Trail north of 
Old Forge. A SWAINSON’S THRUSH was seen near South Pond north of Big Moose Lake.




   




   ---end report




Region 5







Joseph Brin

Baldwinsville, NY

13027




  


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[nysbirds-l] Bar-tailed Godwit continues at Cupsogue Beach County Park, Suffolk

[Timothy Healy]

The Cupsogue Bar-tailed Godwit persists into the month of August, still 
favoring the mudflats beyond the ruins of the life guard chair north of the 
parking lot. The best vantage points are most easily and safely accessed by way 
of the sandy footpath near the camping area. 

Cheers,
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[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - 7/29 thru Sunday, 7/31 - shorebirds, warblers, Icterid flights, etc.

[Tom Fiore]

The [Siberian form] BAR-TAILED Godwit was again seen out at Cupsogue County 
Park flats, by many and both in the a.m. and p.m. hours into Sunday, 7/31.  The 
American Avocet at Mecox Inlet, in southern Suffolk County NY was seen again on 
Sunday, 7/31, as it had also been on Sat., 7/30 (and I believe found by Paul 
Sweet [AMNH]), as well as seen by multiple others that day and subsequently.

The Lark Sparrow gorgeously photo’d. & found (H. Clancy) at Pelham Bay Park, 
Bronx County, N.Y. City on Sat., 7/30 has those photos (& others from same 
field-ouitng) archived in the Macaulay Library:   
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/471192631 
  - time to keep eyes-out for all 
such migrators, with migration very much more than the fantastic and welcome 
diversity of shorebirds & other oft-watched ‘birds of summer-seasons’ being 
discovered.

The [remarkable for the site, and for that county) PIPING Plover at Piermont 
Pier, on the Hudson River, at Piermont, Rockland County, NY was continuing on 
as well into Sunday, 7/31 (from at least Friday, 7/29 there), with many 
observers, as with the Suffolk County, NY Am. Avocet.  That Great White Heron 
(which some call a species; some call a form of Great Blue Heron) was also seen 
again at Piermont, Rockland Co. NY as it has been for some time by now: good to 
get a good look, as this *just-might be* declared a full-on species by more 
authorities, and potentially added-in to further/future checklists.

At the Jamaica Bay Refuge, Queens County, NY at least 3 Hudsonian Godwits [C. 
Finger w/digi-scope-pix; & add’l. observers] had appeared later on Sunday, 
7/31. Along with the many many other birds at “the bay” and as seen by many.

-  -  -  -  -
New York County (in N.Y. City) including Manhattan, Randall’s Island, and 
Governors Island
Friday, July 29, Sat,, July 30, & Sunday, July 31st -

By Friday, some additional variety with shorebirds in migration as Lesser 
Yellowlegs joined other species of ‘waders’ (the name much of the planet’s 
birders uses applying to the vast array of plovers and many other ‘shore’ birds 
some of which are not all that much by ‘shores’ [such as upland sandpiper etc.] 
and which in N. America is also-often used to mean Ibis-y / Egret-y types of 
birds…)  with a find of that species of yellowlegs at the productive Inwood 
Hill / Muscota lagoon & associated flats area, accessed via near W. 215 St., a 
bit west of Broadway-Manhattan. Least Sandpipers were in a few sites as of Sat. 
and Sunday, in Manhattan, although very transitory.

On Saturday, a nice batch of shorebirds including double-digit no’s. of 
Semipalmated Sandpipers, and at least a half-dozen Semipalmated Plovers, along 
with at least 4 other shorebird spp., were found at Randall’s Island, where a 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was also found, in that latter species usually-best 
site for the county. Additionally, a fair diversity of swallows with Bank 
represented and ongoing Cliff Swallows. (But by Sunday in particular, some 
swallow-martin movement was clear, and Cliff as part of that movement that day. 
Also moving in light numbers have been Chimney Swifts.)

The winds on Sunday, from northwest-north-northeast for at least 5 to 6 hours 
starting overnight into early morning (& nearly mid-day in some locations north 
of N.Y. City) brought a flurry of active migration thru the area, including 
N.Y. County. Among songbirds on the move, a fairly strong passage of Yellow 
Warblers, dominating not just all other warbler species but really almost all 
other songbirds on the move for the pre-morning & early morning’s flight. The 
other warbler spp. were far-fewer overall, but American Redstarts were into 
double-digits (just) and also noted were more N. Waterthrushes & 
‘waterthrush-sp.’ i.e. distant possibly Louisiana or Northern. As well as a 
couple of “other” warblers, one of which rather-yellow but seemed not to be ‘A 
Yellow'.   Most of the local area, with N.Y. County included, have been finding 
more of the 2 Waterthrushes and increasingly, these have been Northern, 
although Louisiana also will be, and has been, continuing to pass through too.

There was also a modest but more than minimal blackbird-family flight, 
including esp, Brown-headed Cowbird as well as Red-winged Blackbird, and a few 
Orchard Orioles in flight as well, rounded out by a smatter of Bobolinks, all 
of which in the Icteridae ‘tribe’. Smaller (if not smallest, other than 
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds of which more than a few came thru but also later 
into all of the day) were the Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, still modest in number 
but more than on any prior days this month, as with Yellow Warblers. Also in 
the flight were a couple of Purple Martins and, although on the 
slightly-early-ish side, the start of visible southbound E. Kingbird migration. 
And very visible, the 9 Ospreys passing along down the Hudson river from 
at-sunrise to about 9 a.m. (and a few more seen