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* New York
* Syracuse
* August 28, 2005
* NYSY 0508.28

Birds mentioned -

American Bittern
Great Egret
GOLDEN EAGLE
Merlin
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Bonaparte's Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Black Tern
Common Nighthawk
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER
Purple Martin
Brown Thrasher
Yellow Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Wilson's Warbler

Compiled by Mickey Scilingo

RBA BirdBox: 315-637-0318
E-mail: mickey.scilingo@gte.net
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org

#26 - Sunday, August 28, 2005

Forty COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were counted migrating over Onondaga Valley from Syracuse
University's South Campus on Friday evening. The birds were mostly in 2 seperate
groups of 26 and 12, with 2 individual birds seen at different times. The total
counted by Gene Huggins right now stands at 86 birds. A bonus bird was the adult
GOLDEN EAGLE that passed overhead on Tuesday evening. Two other COMMON NIGHTHAWKS
were seen on Tuesday morning at Three Rivers WMA, near where the power line crosses
Sixty Rd.

The RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at Delta Lake was seen at least up to Tuesday afternoon
from the vantage point along Main St just south of Westernville Rd. Also present
were 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER seen better from the fishermen's access point on
Stokes-Westernville Rd, many GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, a few SPOTTED
SANDPIPERS, 1 SANDERLING, many SEMIPALMATED and LEAST SANDPIPERS, 2 WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPERS, 3 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 1 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER,
up to 7 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and a WILSON'S SNIPE. The GREAT EGRET continues
there as well, as does the MERLIN, who continues to shuffle all the shorebirds from
time to time.

Last weekend, a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER were seen at the Sky
High Sod Farm along Lakeport-Chittenango Rd.

At Sandy Pond on Wednesday morning, migrant landbirds were the highlight, although
there were a few shorebirds present. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was no doubt the
highlight of the landbird movement, which also found 3 BROWN THRASHERS, 2 YELLOW
WARBLERS, 1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH and 2 WILSON'S WARBLERS. Waterbirds found included
a flyby AMERICAN BITTERN, 9 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, over 60 CASPIAN TERNS, 26 COMMON
TERNS and 1 BLACK TERN. The small number of shorebirds present included
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS and SANDERLINGS. At
least a dozen PURPLE MARTINS were still hanging around near Green Point.