RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* August 11, 2009
* NYSY1108.09
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
August 03, 2009 - August 11, 2009
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 11 AT 9:00 a.m. (EST)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
#166 -Tuesday August 11, 2009
Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 03
, 2009
Highlights:
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SNOWY OWL
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
SANDHILL CRANE
LEAST BITTERN
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
BUFFLEHEAD
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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8/07: 13 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were seen from East Road at
Knox-Marcellus Marsh.
8/08: 2 SANDHILL CRANES were seen at May’s Point Pool. A LEAST BITTERN was
heard at Knox-Marcellus Marsh.
Onondaga County
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8/04: A SNOWY OWL was seen and photographed on Oak Brook Road in Radison
east of Baldwinsville. It was seen again on 8/06 at Smoky Bones Restaurant a
few miles east of Radison on Rt. 31.
Madison County
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8/04: At the Lakeport Road Turf Farm north of Chittenango the following
shorebirds were found. 1 LEAST SANDPIPER, 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, many KILLDEER,
2 SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS, and 1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. The nest day a second
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER joined the group.
Oswego County
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On 8/08 an early female BUFFLEHEAD was spotted from the bluff at Derby.
Extralimital
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The last positive report of the Montgomery County MISSISSIPPI KITE was
8/03. Please send any reports, negative or positive, to your listserve or to me
personally.
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A.
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