RBA * New York * Syracuse * May 20, 2013 * NYSY 05. 20. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s):
May 13, 2013 - May 20, 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:May 20 AT 7:30 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #355 -Monday May 20, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of May 13, 2013 Highlights: ----------- GLOSSY IBIS BLACK SCOTER WILSON’S PHALAROPE BAIRD’S SANDPIPER SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER PROTHONOTARY WARBLER CAPE MAY WARBLER PRAIRIE WARBLER ORCHARD ORIOLE EVENING GROSBEAK Migrants this week ------------ CANADA WARBLER BLACKPOLL MAGNOLIA WARBLER MARSH WREN WILLOW FLYCATCHER ALDER FLYCATCHER COMMON NIGHTHAWK SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WILSON’S PHALAROPE SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 5/17: A WILSON’S PHALAROPE was found at Benning Marsh. The following shorebirds were seen at various places from the Visitor’s Center to the end of the Wildlife Drive. DUNLIN LEAST SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS PECTORAL SANDPIPER SOLITARY SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER SNIPE KILLDEER 5/18: A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER has returned to Armitage Road just across the river. 2 WILSON’S PHALAROPES were seen at Benning Marsh. A BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was seen in the mud at the end of the main pool. 5/19: A WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER was seen in the main pool. A GLOSSY IBIS was seen flying over the Wildlife Drive area. Derby Hill ------------ The flight continues to slow at Derby. Only 1,476 raptors were counted this week with BROAD-WINGS and TURKEY VULTURES making up the bulk of the birds. Other highlights were PRAIRIE WARBLER, 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES and 9 EVENING GROSBEAKS on 5/15, 22 BRANT on 5/16 and 2 SANDHILLCRANES plus 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS on 5/19. Madison County ------------ 5/14: The feeders at Linda Salter’s home on Carpenter Road near Sheds continue to have EVENING GROSBEAKS and PINE SISKINS. They continued throught the week. Oswego County ------------ 5/14: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW were found at Sunset Bay Park. 5/16: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found at the Mosquito Station off of Lower Road on the north shore of Oneida Lake. BRANT, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and BLACK SCOTER were reporte among the ten species if migrants seen flying at Phillips Point on the north shore of Oneida Lake. 5/17:A PRAIRIE WARBLER was seen on Gilbert Mills Road just east of Rt. 264. 5/19: A rare SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER was seen on Rt.30 in Willianston near the Cranberry farm. Unfortunately it was never relocated. Onondaga County ------------ 5/15: 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS were seen at the end of Potter Road at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 5/16: Among the 10 species of birds seen near the lake in Skaneateles were 8 SNOW GEESE. -- end report 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/[email protected]/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/ --
