RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 09, 2012 * NYSY 07.09.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
July 02, 2012 - July 09, 2012 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:July 09 AT 5:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #311 -Monday July 09, 2012 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of June 25 , 2012 Highlights: ----------- UPLAND SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER GREAT HORNED OWL RED-HEADED WOODPECKER DICKCISSEL GRASSHOPPER SPARROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 7/3: 9 species of shorebirds including STILT SANDPIPER and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER were seen at Puddler’s Marsh on Towpath Road. Much the same group of birds were seen again on 7/7. Oswego County ------------ 7/3: 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW were found at the Oswego County airport. 7/8: 18 species of birds including 6 Warblers were found at Otto Mills Road above Redfield. Onondaga County ------------ 7/4: 6 species of shorebirds were found at a wet area along New Seneca Turnpike west of Lawrence Road near Skaneateles. 7/6: 18 species of birds including a GREAT HORNED OWL were seen along the Butternut Creek Trail near the Dewitt Wegman’s. 7/9: 2 adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen in a swamp on Fenner Road west of Baldwinsville. One appeared to be going into a nest hole. Extralimital ------------ As of 7/9 3 DICKCISSELS, 2 males and 1 female, were still being seen at the Seneca Meadows Wetland Preserve north of Seneca Falls. -- End Transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
