Date: 11/29/25 1:14 pm From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Irondequoit Bay - 11/29/25
Sue and I did a quick loop across the top of Irondequoit Bay from Webster into Irondequoit, then S hitting some of the west side, with a quick run down Hoffman Road.
Hoffman Road quiet except quite a few Am. Robins and 1 Hermit Thrush toward the end. Highlights on the Bay were a Great Egret along the cattails in the NW corner area plus a second on the docks of the old marina on the west side just N of where Orchard Park comes down to the Bay. Also in that area thousands of Red-breasted and Common Mergansers all over the water, over 100 Hooded Mergansers, 30+ Gadwall, scattered
Bonaparte's Gulls, and 1 adult Lesser Black-backed Gull far down toward the SE corner. Lots of Mute Swans (did not check carefully for other species) and Mallards.
Might be worth a check tomorrow with more time to count and scope.
I saw a Lesser Black-backed Gull this afternoon, just north of Blue Heron Drive; also one Common Loon and a Bufflehead, along with a number of Ring-bills and Mallards. From Vitale park 8 Tundra Swans, some Canada Geese, 3 Hooded Mergansers, and more mallards and gulls (Ring-bills and Herrings). Pretty quiet overall from those spots.
Jim Kimball
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Date: 11/26/25 7:00 am From: Lynn A. Braband <lab45...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] If you listen closely in Kentucky, you can hear the rainforest in southern Mexico.
Date: 11/20/25 1:53 pm From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Wester Park - 11/20 - West Trail, always interesting
Webster Park - West Trail, Monroe, New York, US
Nov 20, 2025 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Bob & Sue Spahn, <rspahn...>: Traveling
0.65 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Once again, Sue and I decided to do a West Trail Loop in Wester Park as part of creaky knee exercise, with chances at some fun birds as a part. Had company of Mike Gullo on part of the south edge trail in, then sat on the bench and spished a bit and added some screech-owl whistles - good for two owls calling back from the spruces both SE and SW of us plus a couple of Hermit Thrushes, a Fox Sparrow, cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, Blue Jays, + popping up and sitting or flying by or calling. More birders arrived and noted that we should look for Pine Grosbeaks near the Park Road on the way back on the N leg of the loop. Sue had gone ahead, and when I caught up with her about halfway out, she was looking at 3 Pine Grosbeaks in a fruit tree and had had about the same more move off. Back at the car, Sheryl Gracewski had seen a sapsucker back in the pines nearby, and I caught up with it before we left. We also had had a nice Pileated Woodpecker calling and then working a tree nearby as we started. Always interesting just getting out.
14 species
Eastern Screech-Owl 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
Hermit Thrush 3
Pine Grosbeak 4 Not sure I'd really call this species rare here. It has been on essentially every year list for this reporting Region of NY State for at least the 50+ years I have documented records. They typically are an every-other-year irruptive species in some numbers, arriving in the fall and persisting scattered about into late winter to spring of the next year. Missed the next fall-winter, but back again the one after, so reported in every year. Webster Park, and this part of the park, has been one of the prime locations for seeing them for decades. They have been reported here this year for a week + already.
Fox Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Date: 11/18/25 11:00 am From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Webster Park - 11/18
Always interesting day to day. Quiet, but Hermit Thrushes as expected but not seen or heard last Saturday on our walk.
Webster Park - RV Loop, Monroe, New York, US
Nov 18, 2025 10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
Bob & Sue Spahn, <rspahn...>: Traveling
0.6 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Sue and I walked the RV loop from Park Road around the back loop, with a stop at a table in the middle of that to spish and try screech-owl imitation, then back across the field about 30 ft south of the brush edge, and over to car on Park Road. Mainly quiet, with a few of the usual winter residents. Only a bit special was Hermit Thrush. We had one come in briefly and silently while spishing back in the loop. Then about 3/4 of the way back across the field, we had three sure, maybe four, calling from the brush to the N and one more from the pines to the S. At least 5 for the walk. Contrasts with none on 10/15 in a walk in the S side of the West Trail; but that could be due to all the foot traffic that day before our arrival. Others had 1-2 that day earlier.
10 species
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 7
Hermit Thrush 5
Northern Cardinal 1
Date: 11/16/25 5:44 am From: Bill Howe <whhowe60...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Canandaigua Brant
The two Brant (1 adult, 1 juvenile) continued at Kershaw Park yesterday. If anyone knows of a licensed rehabber who might be able to capture a Brant, the adult bird has a fishhook hanging out of its beak as well as some strands of monofilament. I imagine that's why those birds are still there.
