Date: 10/22/19 1:18 pm From: Karen Fung <easternbluebird...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park North End: Lark Sparrow
Malcolm Morris found a Lark Sparrow today around 2:30pm in the North Meadow near ball field 5. It was more recently seen near the hand ball courts, in the same area where we had the Harris’s Sparrow last year. A few Vesper Sparrows remain in the area (first reported yesterday by Debbie Becker).
The closest park entrance for the Lark Sparrow is CPW and 100th St
NB — these are second-hand reports; I’ve not been in the park today but may head over later.
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Date: 10/22/19 11:04 am From: Nancy Tognan <nancy.tognan...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Rare birding films at the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens) on Oct 25-26
I am posting this on behalf of Jacob Kowalick-Allen of the Museum of the Moving Image, <jacob.kowalick-allen...> <mailto:<jacob.kowalick-allen...> .
Note that the Friday screening is followed by a conversation with Paul Sweet of the American Museum of Natural History and Kaitlyn Parkins of NYC Audubon. Screening times and ticket information are on the website.
Date: 10/22/19 8:55 am From: Jacob Kowalick-Allen <jacob.kowalick-allen...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Bird's-Eye View: The Films of Mikael Kristersson
On October 25th and 26th, Museum of the Moving Image in Queens will be presenting a series called Bird's-Eye View: The Films of Mikael Kristersson <http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2019/10/25/detail/birds-eye-view-the-films-of-mikael-kristersson/> which consists of three feature documentaries about birds in urban environments paired with conversations between the filmmaker Mikael Kristersson (an internationally recognized documentarian from Sweden whose films are rarely shown), best-selling author and ecologist Eric Sanderson ( Mannahatta), and other conservationists focused on birds and conserving our coastlines, both in New York City and abroad. Hope to see you there! [image: Bird s-Eye Poster Final 2 (1)-page-001.jpg]
Date: 10/22/19 7:33 am From: ebe6580017 <ebe6580017...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] American white pelican
American white pelican continues at North end of east pond at Jamaica wildlife preserve....seen from raunt overlook.Ed becher...QueensSent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone
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Date: 10/21/19 4:23 pm From: Patrice Domeischel <fourharborsheron...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Four Harbors Audubon Autumn Presentation: New York Breeding Bird Atlas III: How You Can Experience The Joys Of Atlasing
Sorry, the lecture is tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21, 2019, 6:30 pm, Emma S. Clark Library, 120 Main Street, Setauket, NY 11733
> Presented by: Julie Hart, New York Breeding Bird Atlas Project Coordinator, New York Natural Heritage Program
> It has been 20 years since the last breeding bird atlas in New York State, and a lot has changed! The third atlas will take place from 2020-2025 and involve thousands of volunteers from across the state. This talk will cover the history of the atlas, the importance of atlas data, and how you can get involved. Learn how the third atlas will differ from previous atlases, including how we will be using eBird for data entry. EBird will make it easier to track progress and allow anyone to enter data anywhere. Atlasing is a great excuse to explore new areas and provides an intimate look into the daily lives of birds. Whether you are a beginner or advanced birder, this unique opportunity will strengthen your birdwatching skills while contributing valuable data to a large conservation-oriented project.
>
> Lecture will take place at 6:30 pm, Emma S. Clark Library, 120 Main Street, Setauket, NY 11733
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> Free and open to all. Reservations required. Email: <fourharborsheron...> <mailto:<fourharborsheron...> >
> Patrice Domeischel
> Four Harbors Audubon Society
Date: 10/21/19 4:21 pm From: Patrice Domeischel <fourharborsheron...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Four Harbors Audubon Autumn Presentation: New York Breeding Bird Atlas III: How You Can Experience The Joys Of Atlasing
Presented by: Julie Hart, New York Breeding Bird Atlas Project Coordinator, New York Natural Heritage Program
It has been 20 years since the last breeding bird atlas in New York State, and a lot has changed! The third atlas will take place from 2020-2025 and involve thousands of volunteers from across the state. This talk will cover the history of the atlas, the importance of atlas data, and how you can get involved. Learn how the third atlas will differ from previous atlases, including how we will be using eBird for data entry. EBird will make it easier to track progress and allow anyone to enter data anywhere. Atlasing is a great excuse to explore new areas and provides an intimate look into the daily lives of birds. Whether you are a beginner or advanced birder, this unique opportunity will strengthen your birdwatching skills while contributing valuable data to a large conservation-oriented project.
Lecture will take place at 6:30 pm, Emma S. Clark Library, 120 Main Street, Setauket, NY 11733
Free and open to all. Reservations required. Email: <fourharborsheron...>
Patrice Domeischel
Four Harbors Audubon Society
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Date: 10/21/19 1:26 pm From: Jennifer Kepler <plummer.jen...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Event: Brooklyn Bird Club Members Photo & Art Night
Good Afternoon,
Please join the Brooklyn Bird Club tomorrow night for Member's Photo and Art night! We will be sharing some lovely photos, video and some amazing art. There will be time alloted to have Q&A with the photographers and artists.
Join us at 7pm at the Prospect Park Zoo, *please note the location is changing to the F Classroom* (this is in the Discovery Center, with the Great Horned Owls), there will be signage helping to point you there.
Please arrive on-time as security is allowing us entrance through the service gate (located on Flatbush Ave, South of the main entrance and north of the Leffert's Historic House). Doors open at 6:45pm.
Looking forward to seeing you there! Kind regards, Jennifer Kepler
Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 14, 2019
Highlights:
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RED-THROATED LOON
RED-NECKED GREBE
LEAST BITTERN
BRANT
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
LONG-TAILED DUCK
SURF SCOTER
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
GOLDEN EAGLE
SANDHILL CRANE
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
PARASITIC JAEGER
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
WHITE-EYED VIREO
VESPER SPARROW
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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10/14: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen from Towpath Road.
10/16: A rare for Montezuma LONG-TAILED DUCK was spotted at the Visitor’s Center.
10/18: A LEAST BITTERN was seen from the Wildlife Drive.
10/19: A MARSH WREN was found on Towpath Road. 71 SANDHILL CRANES and an EURASIAN WIGEON were seen in Knox-Marcellus Marsh.
10/20: A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was seen at the Visitor’s Center.
Cayuga County
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10/15: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was found at Fair Haven State Park. It was found again on the 20th.
Onondaga County
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10/15: A rare WHITE-EYED VIROE was found on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga lake near the ampitheater. Unfortunately it has not been relocated. A VESPER SPARROW was also seen. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville.
10/18: 31 BRANT were seen on Onondaga Lake from the Honeywell Center.
10/19: 3 SURF SCOTERS and 4 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were seen on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake.
Oswego County
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10/17: A PARASITIC JAEGER was seen at Derby Hill.
10/18: 200+ WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and 11 SURF SCOTERS were seen at Oswego Harbor.
10/19: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen at Bishop Hill north of Pulaski. A RED-THROATED LOON was seen from Hinman Road north of Port Ontario. A RED-NECKED GREBE was seen at Selkirk Shores State Park on Lake Ontario. A BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and a SANDERLING were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet on Lake Ontario.
Madison County
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10/18: 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were seen on Woodman Pond North of Hamilton.
Oneida County
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10/19: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and 4 VESPER SPARROWS were seen on Dunbarton Road in Durhamville.
10/20: 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen at Verona Beach State Park.
Herkimer County
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10/18: A SOLITARY SANDPIPER and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS were seen on Saltsman Road south of Dolgeville.
Date: 10/20/19 2:56 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sun. Oct. 20, 2019: Six Species of Wood Warblers, Manhattan Virginia Rail
Central Park NYC Sunday, October 20, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Six Species of Wood Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Wood Thrush & Manhattan Virginia Rail (see note below).
Canada Goose - 27 Mallard - 24 Mourning Dove - 6-8 Chimney Swift - 1 over Boathouse at 7am (Bob) Herring Gull - a dozen flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - Lake Sharp-shinned Hawk - westbound flyover 7:30am Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - pair Belvedere Castle Northern Flicker - 5 American Kestrel - male mobbed by Blue Jay at Belvedere Castle Eastern Phoebe - 3 (Andrea Hessel & Bill Perro) Blue-headed Vireo - Belvedere Castle (Val Landwehr) Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - 6-8 flying around in the Ramble White-breasted Nuthatch - Bow Bridge Winter Wren - 1 or 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 south side of Maintenance Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 30-40 Hermit Thrush - 10 Wood Thrush - Laupot Bridge (Deb) American Robin - 25-30 (many flying) Gray Catbird - 5-8 Northern Mockingbird - singing at Cedar Hill House Finch - 2 or 3 Chipping Sparrow - 5-10 Field Sparrow - 1 Maintenance Field (Deb) Song Sparrow - 15-20 Swamp Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 40-50 Eastern Towhee - 10-15 Common Grackle - 10 Common Yellowthroat - female east side of Maintenance Field Northern Parula - 2 uphill from Boathouse Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 (male Castle (Val Landwehr), female Tupelo Field) Palm Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15-20 Black-throated Green Warbler - female Oak Bridge Scarlet Tanager - male Gill Overlook (Val Landwehr) Northern Cardinal - 5 -- Virginia Rail: Lucy McLeod @LucyTheNerd headed downtown after leaving the group finding, photographing and tweeting a Virginia Rail at Madison Avenue and 53rd Street. Later Mick Hill @MickHill56 tweeted that the bird had been picked up and delivered to the Wild Bird Fund @wildbirdfund. For Manhattan bird alerts see @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett. -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/20/19 2:10 pm From: <leormand...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Osprey and bald eagle - e Patchogue
This afternoon I had the good fortune of watching an osprey fly overhead with a fish in its talons. Moments later an adult bald eagle followed lazily chasing a meal.
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Date: 10/20/19 2:04 pm From: Steve Walter <swalter15...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Eurasian Wigeon at Jamaica Bay
A drake Eurasian Wigeon was among the first birds I saw as I arrived at the south end of the East Pond this morning. The water is getting high again, allowing ducks to come close. But they all quickly moved away with me there, even before I could get to the edge of the pond. Shorebirds at the south end stayed in sight and included about 45 Greater Yellowlegs, 8 Lesser Yellowlegs, and 5 Long-billed Dowitchers. The dowitchers could conceivably stay for the winter, if they don't get flooded out of one of the too few suitable habitats around here. I mentioned this to a ranger, and he said he would pass along the idea of continuing to manage it beyond the usual seasonal time frame. We'll see.
Also at Jamaica Bay today were a Ferruginous Hawk, Steppe Eagle, and Eagle Owl. For real. Raptorama.
Date: 10/20/19 8:51 am From: Karen Fung <easternbluebird...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park N End: Yellow-breasted Chat
Had a Yellow-breasted Chat at the S End of the Great Hill, just beyond the S Blowdown Meadow fence, at 11:20 am. Tom Perlman saw it a few min later in the bushes west of the Balancing Rock. Seems very skulky and is staying low, so likely still around.
Also of note: Gray-cheeked Thrush next to two Hermits in the crabapple tree next to the Balancing Rock right now.
Date: 10/19/19 2:40 pm From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Pelham Bay Park and Thompson Pond birds
- Orchard Beach section, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, NY
10+ Brant (first of the season)1 Northern Flicker 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers1 Blue-headed Vireoseveral Blue Jays4 Black-capped Chickadees15 Double-crested Cormorants3 Herring Gulls7+ Ring-billed Gulls1 House Wren6+ Golden-crowned Kinglets2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets2 Hermit Thrushes1 Yellow-rumped Warbler5+ Eastern Towhees2 Field Sparrowsmany Song Sparrows3 Swamp Sparrowsseveral Canada Geese
-Thompson Pond Preserve, Pine Plains, NY
several Canada Geese5 Mute Swans8+ Mallards4 American Black Ducks3 Green-winged Teals5 Ring-necked Ducks4 Mourning Doves1 Great Blue Heron2 Red-tailed Hawks1 Pileated Woodpeckerseveral Blue Jays1 Common Raven2 Eastern Bluebirds3 Song Sparrows2 Swamp Sparrows30+ Red-winged Blackbirds5 Rusty Blackbirds
Both were quick trips scouting for a mammal/bird trip in a week.
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist
20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3
Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4629
www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums
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Date: 10/19/19 1:59 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sat. Oct. 19, 2019: Six Species of Wood Warblers, Red-eyed Vireo, Empidonax Flycatcher
Central Park NYC Saturday October 19, 2019OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Six Species of Wood Warblers, Common Raven, Empidonax Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Scarlet Tanager.
Canada Goose - 26Wood Duck - female Balcony Bridge (Deb)Northern Shoveler - 12Gadwall - male ReservoirMallard - 24Ruddy Duck - 20 ReservoirMourning Dove - 4Ring-billed & Herring Gulls - 40+ Reservoir & flyover Herring Gulls Great Black-backed Gull - 11 ReservoirDouble-crested Cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond and flyover flock of 35 heading southCooper's Hawk - 1 or 2 (Persimmon Slope & fly-by seen from Castle)Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Sparrow RockRed-bellied Woodpecker - 4Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8-10Downy Woodpecker - 1Northern Flicker - 3 (2 Warbler Rock, 1 Pinetum)American Kestrel - male (2 locations)Empidonax Flycatcher - Willow or Alder at PinetumEastern Phoebe - Pinetum (Sandra Critelli)Blue-headed Vireo - 3 (2 Tupelo Field, 1 uphill from Boathouse)Red-eyed Vireo - 3 (Maintenance Field, Tupelo Field, Pinetum) Blue Jay - 10-20Crow Species - silent flyover Sparrow RockCommon Raven - heard Summer HouseWhite-breasted Nuthatch - south side Turtle Pond (Sandra Critelli) House Wren - 2 (King of Poland, Maintenance Field)Winter Wren - 3Carolina Wren - 3 pairs (Gill Overlook, Maintenance Field, Shakespeare Garden)Golden-crowned Kinglet - 10-15Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20Hermit Thrush - 25-30American Robin - 30+Gray Catbird - 5-10House Finch - 5Chipping Sparrow - 10-15Song Sparrow - 15-20Swamp Sparrow - 2 Sparrow Rock (Deb)White-throated Sparrow - 75-100Eastern Towhee - 5-10Common Grackle - 15-20Black-and-white Warbler - 1 King of PolandNorthern Parula - 2 (uphill from Boathouse, Maintenance Field)Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 (3 female, 2 male)Palm Warbler - 4 "Yellow" (2 Tupelo Field, 2 Pinetum)Pine Warbler - 3 (2 in pines west of Castle, 1 Pinetum)Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5Scarlet Tanager - female in Catalpa west of Triplet's Bridge (Deb)Northern Cardinal - 8-10 In addition, Peter Haskel reported a Blackpoll Warbler at Cedar Hill.. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
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Date: 10/19/19 11:09 am From: Sy Schiff <icterus...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Marine Nature Study Area
First really cold day. A change for land birds. The most interesting was a WHITE-EYED VIREO that allowed for a quick photo. Other first of the season at this place were RUBY and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS. A HERMIT THRUSH continues. Lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers and a dozen Swamp Sparrows along the trails.
The marshes had Both Yellowlegs, both Egrets, a Great Blue Heron, a flyover Black-crowned Night-Heron and little else. The resident Belted Kingfisher was reported. Brant are in and Cormorants continue to fly over.
Sy Schiff
Date: 10/19/19 10:01 am From: Timothy Healy <tph56...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Say’s Phoebe, morning flight - Jones Beach, Nassau County
An impressive flight following last night’s NW winds included a flyby observation of Say’s Phoebe near the Jones Beach Coast Guard Station boat basin this morning. I cannot say whether the bird continued on or put down somewhere nearby; I followed up its flight and spent some time searching but could not refind it. Notes from the field for this fleeting encounter are included in my eBird checklist. Other birds of interest included Clay-colored Sparrow, Dickcissel, Red-headed Woodpecker, and over 1,000 Yellow-rumps. Marbled Godwits and Caspian Terns continue on the spit.
Date: 10/18/19 9:09 pm From: Gail Benson <gbensonny...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 18 October 2019
-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 18, 2019
* NYNY1910.18
- Birds Mentioned
VARIED THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Brant
King Eider
AMERICAN AVOCET
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
POMARINE JAEGER
Parasitic Jaeger
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Caspian Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
American Bittern
WESTERN KINGBIRD
American Robin
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
Grasshopper Sparrow
Nelson’s Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Hooded Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or
sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:
view
Gary Chapin - Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
125 Pine Springs Drive
Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Number: (212) 979-3070
Compiler: Tom Burke
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Gail Benson
[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 18,
2019 at 9:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are VARIED THRUSH, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN
WHITE PELICAN, WESTERN KINGBIRD, POMARINE JAEGER, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED
GODWIT, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, CLAY-COLORED and LARK SPARROWS, BLUE
GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
Another week of less than ideal conditions did today provide a nice
surprise when a male VARIED THRUSH was spotted at the Alley Pond
Environmental Center in Queens. The bird, feeding with American Robins,
was seen briefly but disappeared along the trail that goes south from the
parking lot along the boardwalk that leads to the observation platform.
The entrance to APEC is off Northern Boulevard just east of the Cross
Island Parkway.
An interesting incursion of BROWN PELICANS last Sunday included 15 seen
moving east past Staten Island’s Huguenot Avenue Beach in the afternoon,
after 3 were seen earlier off Franklin D. Roosevelt Beach in Ocean Breeze.
Other Sunday sightings featured 1 off Fort Tilden, 3 off Brooklyn’s Coney
Island Beach and 1 going west by Jones Beach West End. Monday provided 1
further east off Dune Road east of Triton Lane followed Tuesday by 1 moving
by Mecox Bay.
There was also a report of an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN visiting Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge’s West Pond for a while on Wednesday.
A WESTERN KINGBIRD found last Sunday at West Meadow Beach in Stony Brook
was not reported there after Tuesday.
A sea watch off Riis Park last Wednesday recorded a POMARINE JAEGER along
with 2 PARASITIC and 2 unidentified JAEGERS as well as an immature
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE.
The 3 AMERICAN AVOCETS on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond recently were down to 2
by Thursday, when 4 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were also reported there; STILT
and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS were also noted there last weekend.
Three or four MARBLED GODWITS continue to be seen on the island off the
Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End through today, and a couple of
CASPIAN TERNS visited there in mid-week.
A female KING EIDER was still around Orient Point last Saturday, when an
AMERICAN BITTERN was spotted at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area.
At Jones Beach West End a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was around the hedgerow by
the Coast Guard Station from Monday through today, when a second was also
located nearby.
The Prospect Park LARK SPARROW was last reported last Saturday, when
another was seen at an East Hampton farm.
A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found in Central Park today at the Oven, and a
VESPER SPARROW was located Tuesday at the recently opened Shirley Chisholm
State Park, the former landfill reached from the southern end of
Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn. The extensive grasslands there could prove
to be very interesting.
NELSON’S SPARROWS are now very widespread in salt marshes locally,
including such locations as Plumb Beach, the Oceanside Marine Nature Study
Area and Pelham Bay Park.
YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were noted at Prospect Park Sunday, Montauk Point
Monday, and Robert Moses State Park today.
Among the decreasing variety of WARBLERS was a CONNECTICUT identified
during the morning flight at Robert Moses State Park last Sunday, and a
HOODED male was at Battery Park on Tuesday. Now is a decent time to look
for ORANGE CROWNED WARBLERS.
BLUE GROSBEAKS this week included singles at Captree State Park Sunday,
Jones Beach West End Tuesday, and Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn today.
A few DICKCISSELS included Sunday sightings from Fort Tilden to Robert
Moses State Park and Montauk Point and up to Croton Point, with another at
Jones Beach West End Monday.
Large numbers of Brant began arriving today
To phone in reports please call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a
message.
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
Date: 10/18/19 12:46 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri. Oct. 18, 2019: Green-winged Teal, 7 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC Friday, October 18, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Green-winged Teal (female), a Late Red-eyed Vireo, Seven Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Black-throated Blue, and American Redstart.
Canada Goose - 15 Meer Wood Duck - male Loch Northern Shoveler - 15-20 - Reservoir & Harlem Meer Gadwall - 2 Reservoir (Bob - early) Mallard - around 25 Reservoir & Harlem Meer Green-winged Teal - female Meer Island (Bob - early a.m.) & with group later Mourning Dove - 5 Lily Ponds Herring Gull - flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 2 Reservoir (Bob - early) Double-crested Cormorant - flyover flock of 30 southbound Cooper's Hawk - flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 North Woods Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 20 (10 of these at the Great Hill) Downy Woodpecker - female Loch Northern Flicker - 3 North Woods American Kestrel - male Conservatory Garden Eastern Phoebe - 7 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Loch, West side of the Pool) Red-eyed Vireo - Conservatory Garden (late in season) Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - flyover flock of 12 heading south, then north White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Conservatory Garden House Wren - 1 Loch Winter Wren - 1 Loch (Enrico Leonardi) Carolina Wren - 4 (pair Garden, pair Loch) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 west side of the Pool Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 20 Hermit Thrush - 5 American Robin - 20-25 Gray Catbird - 5 Cedar Waxwing - 8 west side of the Pool House Finch - 15 (west side of the Pool, Conservatory Garden, etc.) American Goldfinch - 2 flyovers west side of the Wildflower Meadow Chipping Sparrow - around 20 Great Hill Song Sparrow - 5 Swamp Sparrow - 1 west side Harlem Meer White-throated Sparrow - 40-50 Eastern Towhee - 15-20 Common Grackle - 15 Common Yellowthroat - 3 American Redstart - 2 (Loch & west side of the Pool) Cape May Warbler - 3 Great Hill west of restrooms Northern Parula - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 Palm Warbler - 3 (1 "Western", 2 "Yellow") Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 North Woods Northern Cardinal - male North Woods
Doug Futuyma found a Grasshopper Sparrow at the Oven at 11:30 this morning, first reported by S. Hubbard @hubbnyc on the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett.
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/18/19 10:37 am From: Sy Schiff <icterus...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Marine Nature Study Area.
Still fairly breezy. Not much of note other than a score of Yellow-rumped Warblers in the dunes. The highlight is the first flocks of BRANT have arrived for the winter, about 150 flying by in the channel and 30 feeding in the cove to Bedell Creek.
Sy Schiff
Eric Miller just called to report a Varied Thrush in APEC. Google: Alley Pond Environmental center. He is trying to relocate currently. Arie GilbertNo. Babylon NYwww.PowerBirder.Blogspot.comwww.QCBirdClub.orgSent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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Date: 10/16/19 1:08 pm From: Larry Trachtenberg <Trachtenberg...> Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] [Extralimital] Yellow-green Vireo in MA
Thanks for the report Angus
Mr. Williams was certainly quite detailed and excited about his find (rightfully so) but perhaps a wee bit hyperbolic:
“My heart jumped”; “I was . . . freaking out” ; “My heart just about leapt out of my chest”; “My fingers went slightly tingly”; “***Mega”
L Trachtenberg
Ossining (Not coastal so not expecting yellow-green vireo).
P.s. As to birds, Croton Point did have a Dickcissel on Sunday (I saw) and a Nelson’s sparrow last week (I didn’t)
From: <bounce-124025205-26736881...> <bounce-124025205-26736881...> On Behalf Of Angus Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:32 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L <NYSBIRDS-L...>
Subject: [nysbirds-l] [Extralimital] Yellow-green Vireo in MA
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On 15 Oct 2019, a YELLOW-GREEN VIREO was trapped twice at the Lighthouse on Monomoy Island, Cape Cod.
There are very few prior records from the East Coast, although one was trapped on 5 Sep 2011 at Plum Island MA. There is also a Bermuda record from 6 Oct 1992. There are at least two records from Cape May, New Jersey, one from 26 Sep 2018 and the other 23 May 2019.
Definitely something we should be watching for in coastal New York, both in the spring (May) and in the fall (Sep/Oct)!
Date: 10/16/19 12:32 pm From: Angus Wilson <oceanwanderers...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] [Extralimital] Yellow-green Vireo in MA
On 15 Oct 2019, a YELLOW-GREEN VIREO was trapped twice at the Lighthouse on Monomoy Island, Cape Cod.
There are very few prior records from the East Coast, although one was trapped on 5 Sep 2011 at Plum Island MA. There is also a Bermuda record from 6 Oct 1992. There are at least two records from Cape May, New Jersey, one from 26 Sep 2018 and the other 23 May 2019.
Definitely something we should be watching for in coastal New York, both in the spring (May) and in the fall (Sep/Oct)!
Date: 10/15/19 1:24 pm From: Mardi Dickinson <mardi1d...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Keith Mueller, Bird Artist and Sculptor - BirdCallsRadio
Birders et al,
Thought many of you would be interested in my next guest Keith Mueller, Bird Artist and Sculptor
who gives a deep dive into the world of avian carving. https://bit.ly/2akUsxp
Date: 10/15/19 1:01 pm From: Steve Walter <swalter15...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Jones Beach Clay-colored, Blue Grosbeak
There was a Clay-colored Sparrow at Jones Beach today, around the hedgerows near the Coast Guard station. It sounds like it may have been seen Monday, as well, but doesn't seem to be seen for long. Fortunately, I took long range pictures - which, at least, don't take off before the ID can be verified. I think Ed Becher was one of the previous observers. He was definitely one of the observers today - being the one that spotted it - of a young / female type Blue Grosbeak on the south side of the entrance road to the parking lot.
Birds of note on the sand spit were a juvenile Caspian Tern and its parent, as well as at least three continuing Marbled Godwits.
Date: 10/15/19 6:42 am From: Gabriel Willow <gabrielwillow...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Hooded Warbler in the Battery (NYC)
I led my weekly bird walk in the Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan, this morning. We had 26 species, including a pair of American Kestrel, a couple of Eastern Towhees, a lingering Magnolia Warbler, and several Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers.
The undoubted highlight however was a bright male Hooded Warbler flitting about between the beehive area and the Biergarten at the SW corner of the park. He was quite cooperative, hopping on the ground and chipping loudly.
Date: 10/15/19 6:32 am From: Michael Schrimpf <michael.schrimpf...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Western Kingbird continues West Meadow Beach, stony brook, NY
Still present this morning, same spot.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 12:31 Patrice Domeischel <fourharborsheron...> wrote:
Date: 10/14/19 5:12 pm From: Nancy Tognan <nancy.tognan...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] "Invasion of the Tree Snatchers" - a Queens County Bird Club presentation this Weds. Oct. 16
The Queens County Bird Club will be meeting at the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd, Douglaston, NY 11362 >Map of location< <http://goo.gl/8cnmjT> at 8:00 pm this Wednesday, October 16, 2019. Free admission. Refreshments will be served starting 7:30pm.
Our guest speaker will be Jason Stein, presenting “Invasion of the Tree Snatchers”.
Non-native vines such as bittersweet and porcelainberry are pulling down, strangling, and covering over young trees throughout our region, turning our parks into "vinelands" instead of healthy forests.
Jason Stein is an Advanced Volunteer Coordinator for NYC Parks "Super Stewards" program. Find out how to identify invasive vines and how to receive training to become certified to combat invasive vines in your favorite park.
Hope to see you Wednesday!
Nancy Tognan
<nancy.tognan...> <mailto:<nancy.tognan...> Vice President, Queens County Bird Club
Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of October 07, 2019
Highlights:
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YELLOW-CROWNED HIGHT-HERON
TUNDRA SWAN
SNOW GOOSE
BRANT
CANVASBACK
BLACK VULTURE
OSPREY
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
BANK SWALLOW
CLIFF SWALLOW
BARN SWALLOW
VESPER SPARROW
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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Shorebird numbers picked up this week.
BLACK-BELLIED P;OVER
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
DUNLIN
LEAST SANDPIPER
PECTORAL SANDPIPER
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
SOLITARY SANDPIPER
GREATER YELLOWLEGS
LESSER YELLOWLEGS
KILLDEER
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER
SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER
WILSON’S SNIPE
Rather late CLIFF, BARN and BANK SWALLOWS were noted this week.
10/7: 9 species of Shorebirds including BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER were seen from East Road.
10/8: 14 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen at Benning Marsh. 62 SANDHILL CRANES were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh
Cayuga County
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10/8: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at Fair Haven State Park.
Onondaga County
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10/8: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen under the power lines at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville.
10/9: A juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was spotted in a birch tree near the ampitheater on the West Shore Trail of Onondaga Lake. It was seen through 10 12.
10/10: A BLACK VULTURE was seen at the fishing access lot at the south end of Jamesville Reservoir.
10/11: A LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was spotted at the mouth of Nine Mile Creek on Onondaga Lake.
Oswego County
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10/8: A TUNDRA SWAN was spotted at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario. A late OSPREY was seen at Phillips Point on Oneida Lake.
10/11: 160 BRANT were seen at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario.
10/14: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Sandy Island State Park on Lake Ontario.
Madison County
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10/8: A late OSPREY was seen near Woodman Pond north of Hamilton.
10/12: 3 SNOW GEESE were seen on Woodman Pond north of Hamilton
Oneida County
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10/11: A late VESPER SPARROW was seen at Utica Marsh.
Herkimer County
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10/12: A CANVASBACK was seen in the Mohawk River in Little Falls.
Date: 10/14/19 11:12 am From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Oct. 14, 2019: Four Species of Wood Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Field Sparrow
Central Park NYC Monday, October 14, 2019 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Four Species of Wood Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Field Sparrow.
Canada Goose - 2 Lake Mallard - 32 Mourning Dove - 2 Strawberry Fields Herring Gull - flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Belvedere Castle) Peregrine Falcon - flyover Strawberry Fields Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Belvedere Castle) Blue Jay - 8 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Upper Lobe (Charlotte) House Wren - 3 Carolina Wren - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & King of Poland) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 16 Hermit Thrush - 6 American Robin - 30+ Gray Catbird - 6 Brown Thrasher - 1 Upper Lobe (Charlotte) American Goldfinch - female Chipping Sparrow - 4 Field Sparrow - 2 or 3 (1 Falconer's Hill, 1 or 2 Strawberry Fields) Song Sparrow - 7 Swamp Sparrow - King of Poland White-throated Sparrow - 15 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Pinetum Eastern Towhee - 2 (female Upper Lobe, male south of Hernshead) Common Grackle - a few southbound flyovers Common Yellowthroat - 1 King of Poland American Redstart - 1 Upper Lobe Magnolia Warbler - 1 Locust Grove Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" Strawberry Fields Scarlet Tanager - hatch-year male Strawberry Fields (Jeremy Nadel) Northern Cardinal - 3
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/14/19 9:29 am From: Patrice Domeischel <fourharborsheron...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western Kingbird continues West Meadow Beach, stony brook, NY
Today refound by Kathleen Coyle. Bird continues near turtle marker 9 off Trustees Road. Patrice Domeischel
Date: 10/14/19 6:34 am From: Corey Finger <10000birdsblogger...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] 6th Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit results
Yesterday we tallied 83 species at Fort Tilden's Battery Harris Platform, our second best year ever. New additions to our cumulative list were Snow Goose, Field Sparrow, Cape May Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Brown Pelican, and Common Nighthawk.
Other highlights included a great dolphin show all morning, Humpback Whale spouts, a flyover Dickcissel, a hooting Great Horned Owl at both dawn and dusk, two fresh Black Swallowtails that spent most of the afternoon around the platform, and three Eastern Meadowlarks.
We didn't miss any species that we had never missed: our biggest miss was Brant, which we had only missed one previous year, followed by Chimney Swift and White-breasted Nuthatch, which are now batting .500.
We had a great crowd of birders throughout the day and I don't think we missed much. Considering the relatively weak winds out of the northwest that died by noon and the lack of a finch flight this year I think we did really well. Thanks to everyone who came out to find some birds and especially to those who brought snacks. (We might have had too many snacks this year!)
Date: 10/13/19 2:03 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sun. Oct. 13, 2019: 7 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Cape May, Belted Kingfisher
Central Park NYC Sunday, October 13, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Seven Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Belted Kingfisher, Brown Creeper, Swainson's, Hermit and Wood thrushes, Golden- and Ruby-crowned kinglets.
Canada Goose - 55-60 Northern Shoveler - 2 Turtle Pond (Deb - early) Gadwall - heard Reservoir Mallard - 15 Rock Pigeon - around 40 outside Boathouse Cafe Mourning Dove - 11 Chimney Swift - 4 Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - circa 50 Reservoir & flyover Herring Gulls Great Black-backed Gull - 6 reservoir Double-crested cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond Cooper's Hawk - 2 (Tupelo Field & Warbler Rock) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Belted Kingfisher - female Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 7 to 9 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 15 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Ramble Northern Flicker - 2 (Locust Grove, Shakespeare Garden) American Kestrel - male perched over Turtle Pond Dock mobbed by Blue Jay Eastern Phoebe - 1 Tupelo Field Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 10 to 15 American Crow - 7 (flyover flock of 6 & straggler Upper Lobe) Brown Creeper - Azalea Pond (Val from Minnesota) House Wren - Tupelo Field Winter Wren - 2 (Ramble & Shakespeare Garden) Carolina Wren - 2 pairs (Oak Bridge & Belvedere Castle) Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 13 Swainson's Thrush - Mugger's Woods Hermit Thrush - 12 Wood Thrush - stream south of Azalea Pond (Dan Stevenson) American Robin - 30 to 40 Gray Catbird - 12 Northern Mockingbird - flyover Great Lawn Brown Thrasher 4 Chipping Sparrow - 4 Pinetum Song Sparrow - 16 Swamp Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 20 to 30 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 or 4 Tupelo Field Eastern Towhee - 6 Common Grackle - 7 Ovenbird - east of Azalea Pond Common Yellowthroat - 2 (Maintenance Field & Tupelo Field) American Redstart - 2 (Maintenance Field) Cape May Warbler - first-fall female Pinetum Northern Parula - 3 (Boathouse, Balancing Rock, Azalea Pond (Dan Stevenson)) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 females (Pinetum & Azalea Pond) Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" (Summer House & Pinetum) Northern Cardinal - 6
Deb Allen Follow us on Twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/13/19 12:03 pm From: <glennq...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Flock of Common Raven, Sands Point Preserve (Nassau)
Around 11AM this morning, a raucous flock of 9 Common Raven came in, circling and dog-fighting just over Hempstead House before moving off the preserve property to the west.
Date: 10/12/19 3:16 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sat. Oct. 12, 2019: 9 Species of Wood Warblers, Brown Creeper, Dark-eyed Junco, Scarlet Tanager
Central Park NYC Saturday, October 12, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Nine Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Brown Creeper, Dark-eyed Junco, Scarlet Tanager.
Canada Goose - 25 Mute Swan - pair Reservoir (Deb - early) Mallard - 40+ Mourning dove - 5 Chimney Swift - 5 Ring-billed Gull - at least 7 Reservoir Herring gull - 55+ Great Black-backed Gull - 11 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Ramble Cooper's Hawk - 1 Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (flyover Shakespeare Garden, perched Balancing Rock) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 15-25 Downy Woodpecker - 2 males (near Boathouse & Balancing Rock) Northern Flicker - 10-15 American Kestrel - male Great Lawn Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - 3 Tupelo Field White-breasted Nuthatch - heard Tupelo Field Brown Creeper - 1 Shakespeare Garden House Wren - 2 (Pinetum, Tupelo Field) Winter Wren - 5 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 16 Swainson's Thrush - 2 (Gill Source, Winderdale Arch) Hermit Thrush - 10 American Robin - around 60 Gray Catbird - 7 Brown Thrasher - 3 Cedar Waxwing - 3 or 4 in Amur Corktree at Winterdale Arch (Mark Siegeltuch) Chipping Sparrow - Great Lawn Song Sparrow - 30 Swamp Sparrow - 5 White-throated Sparrow - at least 20 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 Great Lawn Eastern Towhee - 10 Common Grackle - 5 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 (Laupot Bridge & Ramble) Common Yellowthroat - Maintenance Field American Redstart - 3 (1 Tupelo Field (Karen Evans), 2 Balancing Rock) Cape May Warbler - 3 (1 Oven, 2 Pinetum) Northern Parula - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 males (Oven, Pinetum) Palm Warbler - "Yellow" 5 Pine Warbler - 3 Pinetum (David Barrett) Black-throated Green Warbler - Oven Scarlet Tanager - 2 females Shakespeare Garden in Crab Apple Northern Cardinal - 7
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/12/19 9:43 am From: Sy Schiff <icterus...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Marin Nature Study Area, Oceanside
Full moon high tide. The marsh was completely flooded, but the water subsided rather quickly so we could move out on the path. There were about 3 dozen Yellowlegs scattered in groups with about 20% Lesser. Both Egrets and 2 Great Blue Herons were foraging. Nice to have long legs.
Not much around due to the flood, but we picked up several marsh birds to the east of the pond. They moved to the vegetation and higher ground next to the path. Every thing was still under water in this area. While we were trying to get better looks, an AMERICAN BITTERN flew by. The 3 marsh birds, up close for a change, turned out to be a MARSH WREN, a SALTMARSH SPARROW and a NELSON’S SPARROW, all looking for dryer ground.
Sy Schiff
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BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 11th 2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are SEDGE WREN, WESTERN KINGBIRD, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, MARBLED GODWIT, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, KING EIDER, PARASITIC JAEGER, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, CONNECTICUT WARBLER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL, BLUE GROSBEAK, LARK SPARROW and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW.
A nice variety of birds this week, despite the unfavorable weather, was highlighted by a SEDGE WREN found a photographed at Pelham Bay Park last Saturday afternoon. Another unusual migrant found today on Staten Island was a WESTERN KINGBIRD spotted at Brookfield Park which is just north of Arthur Kill Road where it intersects with Brookfield Avenue.
The storm rolling through our area Tuesday into Wednesday provided a nice fallout of HUDSONIAN GODWITS at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with a maximum of 31 counted Wednesday morning at the south end of the East Pond. They were joined by a MARBLED GODWIT as well but unfortunately none of the godwits lingered there beyond Wednesday. However 3 AMERICAN AVOCETS have continued around the north end of the East Pond at least to yesterday and among the other shorebirds reported there this week have been 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES Thursday as well as a small number of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and PECTORAL, STILT and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS. Unfortunately the water level on the pond remains much higher than it should be for optimum shorebirding. A single HUDSONIAN GODWIT was seen again at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area last Saturday and up to 5 MARBLED GODWITS were still around Jones Inlet at least to Tuesday often seen on the island just east of the Coast Guard Station. A WHIMBREL flew by Lemon Creek Pier on Staten Island last Saturday.
A seawatch from Robert Moses State Park field 2 yesterday did produce 4 PARASITIC JAEGERS while today's watch netted 2 CASPIAN and 44 ROYAL TERNS. A couple of CASPIANS were also noted this week at Jones Beach and Mecox Bay.
A female KING EIDER continues off Orient Point while a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was spotted in Central Park Tuesday.
The highlight among the warblers this week was a male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER found Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan's Bryant Park still present Thursday. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was found at Teatown Lake Reservation in central Westchester last Saturday and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were noted at Caumsett State Park Sunday and in Prospect Park Wednesday and Thursday. Among the diminishing numbers of warblers this week were reports of TENNESSEE, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, BLACKBURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, PRAIRIE, HOODED and CANADA among others. YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS last Saturday in Central Park and at Tobay Sanctuary were followed by one in Manhattan's Herald Square Park on Tuesday while a few PHILADELPHIA VIREOS included sightings in Prospect and Kissena Parks and at Floyd Bennett Field.
DICKCISSELS this week included one in Caumsett State Park Sunday, another at Alley Pond Park Monday and one at the Chandler's Estate in Miller Place yesterday and today and a BLUE GROSBEAK was also found in Alley Pond Park Monday. A LARK SPARROW was present in Prospect Park all week and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS visited Central Park's north end and Kissena Park Saturday and Caumsett State Park Sunday.
Other migrants recently included both cuckoos, many more YELLOW-BILLED than BLACK-BILLED, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and passerines featuring AMERICAN PIPIT, WINTER WREN, both RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS and such sparrows as LINCOLN'S and WHITE-CROWNED with a FOX in Central Park Saturday as well as some NELSON'S SPARROWS mostly in coastal saltmarshes but also occasionally inland.
To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.
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Date: 10/11/19 11:19 am From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri. Oct. 11, 2019: 9 Species of Wood Warblers, Red-shouldered Hawk, Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Central Park NYC Friday, October 11, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m. ob.
Highlights: Nine Species of Wood Warblers including Nashville, Yellow-rumped, and "Western" Palm Warbler, Red-shouldered Hawk and other Raptors, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, and Winter Waterfowl.
Canada Goose - flock of around 50 flew north from Reservoir Northern Shoveler - 4 Reservoir Gadwall - pair Reservoir Mallard - around 30 Ruddy Duck - 7 Reservoir Mourning Dove - 8 Chimney Swift - 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Compost Area Ring-billed Gull - 5 Reservoir Herring Gull - 20 reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flyover Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 3 (2 flyovers) Red-shouldered Hawk - adult flyover Red-tailed Hawk - 3 flyovers Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Loch Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 2 males (Loch & e. of Great Hill) Northern Flicker - 5 American Kestrel - male Grassy Knoll Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Loch Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - flock of 25 House Wren - North Woods Winter Wren - 2 Loch Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 25 Swainson's Thrush - Loch Hermit Thrush - Loch American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 3 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Compost Area Brown Thrasher - 1 near the Pool House Finch - 1 just outside Conservatory Garden American Goldfinch - 7 Wildflower Meadow Chipping Sparrow - around 30 Grassy Knoll & Compost Area Song Sparrow - 10 Swamp Sparrow - 8 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 (2 females Compost Area, male Great Hill) Eastern Towhee - 4 Common Grackle - 75 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Loch Nashville Warbler - 1 Great Hill Common Yellowthroat - 1 Wildflower Meadow American Redstart - 2 Northern Parula - 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 Palm Warbler - 40-60 (most at the Great Hill incl. one "Western") Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Loch Northern Cardinal - 7
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/10/19 4:40 pm From: Corey Finger <10000birdsblogger...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Change of Date for Queens County Bird Club Big Sit
All,
The Sixth Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit will be moved to Sunday,
October 13, instead of Saturday as originally scheduled. This is to take
advantage of the forecast northwest winds on Sunday.
Original email with information on how to participate is below my signature.
Good Birding,
Corey Finger
The sixth annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit will take place at the
Battery Harris Platform at Fort Tilden in, you guessed it, Queens, on
Saturday, 12 October. (If we get horrific weather we’ll move it to the
13th.)
The Big Sit is an all-day-long event where we seek to see as many species
as possible from a single location in 24 hours (though we usually start an
hour or so before dawn and go until dark). Last year we crushed our record
when we saw 91 species and we hope to at least come close to that tally
again this year.
If you want to come you don’t have to spend the whole day. You can come for
a quick visit, an extended stay, or join us for the whole shebang. Feel
free to bring snacks and warm beverages!
Had two Palm Warblers and a Common Yellowthroat at my friends home in Scarsdale on Old Army Rd. Also had my first White-throated Sparrows of the season there too.
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist
20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3
Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4629
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Date: 10/10/19 12:03 pm From: Andrew Baksh <birdingdude...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay East Pond Godwits (NO)
As to be expected (but there is always hope), the rain driven Hudsonian and single Marbled Godwits were a no show today on the East Pond. It also looks like the lone Hudsonian that had stayed around for a bit might have departed with yesterday’s flock.
The 3 American Avocets continue up at the north end and 4 Long-billed Dowitchers were seen up that end as well.
Other shorebirds included, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 4 Least Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 2 White-rumped Sandpipers, 9 Greater Yellowlegs and 8 Lesser Yellowlegs.
Duck numbers continue to build with Ruddy Ducks and American Wigeons seeing the largest increase. Greater Scaup have arrived as well. Other notables were the 4 Glossy Ibis that were still near the Southend.
Cheers,
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu The Art of War
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Date: 10/9/19 1:08 pm From: Andrew Baksh <birdingdude...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Godwits at Jamaica Bay
Not much in terms of Shorebirds at the North end of the East Pond. The only notables were the continuing 3 American Avocets with 19 Greater Yellowlegs.
Cheers,
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu The Art of War
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> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
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www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
> On Oct 9, 2019, at 1:41 PM, Andrew Baksh <birdingdude...> wrote:
>
> My Gulling was put on hold; thanks to Anthony for the post, “you made me look.” Shoutout to Nas!
>
> No Long-billed Dowitcher for me. However,
> I did count 31 Hudsonian Godwits, 1 Marbled Godwit, 4 Stilt Sandpipers, 2 Short-billed Dowitchers, 37 Greater Yellowlegs, 7 Lesser Yellowlegs and 1 Dunlin. All on the southend.
>
> I am pretty soaked but will attempt a look up at the north end in a few mins to see what might be up there.
>
> Good Rain Birding!
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> "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass
>
> 風 Swift as the wind
> 林 Quiet as the forest
> 火 Conquer like the fire
> 山 Steady as the mountain
> Sun Tzu The Art of War
>
>> (\__/)
>> (= '.'=)
>> (") _ (")
>> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
>
> Andrew Baksh
> www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
>
>> On Oct 9, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Anthony Collerton <icollerton...> wrote:
>>
>> Currently 29 Hudsonian Godwits, a Marbled Godwit and 5 Long-billed Dowitchers at the South end of the East Pond (in the rain).
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Date: 10/9/19 10:41 am From: Andrew Baksh <birdingdude...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Godwits at Jamaica Bay
My Gulling was put on hold; thanks to Anthony for the post, “you made me look.” Shoutout to Nas!
No Long-billed Dowitcher for me. However,
I did count 31 Hudsonian Godwits, 1 Marbled Godwit, 4 Stilt Sandpipers, 2 Short-billed Dowitchers, 37 Greater Yellowlegs, 7 Lesser Yellowlegs and 1 Dunlin. All on the southend.
I am pretty soaked but will attempt a look up at the north end in a few mins to see what might be up there.
Good Rain Birding!
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu The Art of War
> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (")
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
Date: 10/9/19 6:58 am From: Thomas Gray <gray...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Prothonotary warbler Bryant Park
I found a Prothonotary yesterday pm in Bryant Park and got some atrocious record shots. Fortunately Jean Shum has relocated it this am and got some excellent photos.
It is in the SW corner of the 'lawn' plantings amid the chaos of turning the lawn into an ice rink.
It is common, of course, for grassland birds globally to use melodious songs, and often dazzly tail feathers, in displays customized to their habitats. And this makes them prime targets for the cage bird trade. A couple of years ago, I was involved (as a photo contributor) in a Miami Herald article on the wydah’s appearance in Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article180926506.html#storylink=cpy.
Somebody may know whether NE strays are likely to be local escapes, versus vagrants from newly established US colonies. We’ll see how the incursion develops. Wydahs could give a whole new look to the Shawangunk Grasslands one of these days!
Rick
From: <bounce-124003693-3714678...> <bounce-124003693-3714678...> On Behalf Of Robert Paxton
Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 8:41 AM
To: Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...>
Cc: NYSBIRDS (<NYSBIRDS-L...>) <NYSBIRDS-L...>
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
Hi Shai et al.,
So I googled Sporophila lineola and up popped an image of a caged bird with an impressively long and varied (though not terribly melodious) song. I strongly suspect an escaped cage bird.
We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond.
The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at least 7 Sep:
I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the date the present bird was found this year.
Date: 10/9/19 5:41 am From: Robert Paxton <rop1...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
Hi Shai et al., So I googled Sporophila lineola and up popped an image of a caged bird with an impressively long and varied (though not terribly melodious) song. I strongly suspect an escaped cage bird. Yrs., Bob Paxton
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 4:41 PM Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> wrote:
> We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing > a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately > driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve > from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the > enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on > the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we > stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond. > > The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at > least 7 Sep: > > https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60461352 > > I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the > birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant > and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a > specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), > and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American > austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the > latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the > date the present bird was found this year. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/<nysbirds-l...>/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > >
We had a Pin-tailed Whydah today in Central Park (Compost area, around 106 Street). I don’t think it is a “vagrant” (there are small colonies of these birds in California and Florida) but probably an escapee. We did not see any band or tag in the legs of the bird.
I did report the bird in my e-Bird report for Central Park (today).
I had only heard via word of mouth about the sighting on 7 Sep and then seen the photo from a few days ago.
The lack of excitement makes sense in retrospect, given that some of the people in the know were aware of the band.
The rest of us had to wonder whether anybody had done due diligence (as turned out to be true) or whether it was another case of not very well informed indifference toward a species with genuine potential for vagrancy. To me this highlights the importance of the listserv for cases like this that require analysis and explanation.
I'm gonna let it hang out there on the Hot 100 for a while, as my latest lifebird on eBird, to amuse the guilty and punish the innocent!
Shai
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From: <bounce-124002490-11143133...><mailto:<bounce-124002490-11143133...> [<bounce-124002490-11143133...><mailto:<bounce-124002490-11143133...>] on behalf of nathan o'reilly [<natron13...><mailto:<natron13...>]
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:22 PM
To: Robert Lewis; Long Island Birding .
Cc: birds
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
On the eBird report from Sept 7 you can see a band on the leg.
eBird Checklist - 7 Sep 2019 - Charles Memorial Park - 28 species<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59576345> Hiding a checklist will exclude the taxa on it from all forms of eBird output that show a location (including bar charts, maps, and arrival/departure tables), but the observation will still be accessible to you, and will appear on your lists.
ebird.org
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From: <bounce-124002397-79824639...> <bounce-124002397-79824639...> on behalf of Long Island Birding . <michaelzito...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5:27 PM
To: Robert Lewis <rfermat...>
Cc: birds <nysbirds-l...>
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
Hello Bob,
Just of note these birds are widely available for purchase online and maybe even in local pet stores. I think many feel that it was probably an escapee rather than the more unlikely scenario of a vagrant, but who knows?
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 5:18 PM Robert Lewis <rfermat...><mailto:<rfermat...>> wrote:
HUH?? This has been present since September 7?? And not a single post of that fact to this server before? Or did I miss it?
Thank you Shai.
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 4:41:42 PM EDT, Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...><mailto:<Shaibal.Mitra...>> wrote:
We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond.
The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at least 7 Sep:
I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the date the present bird was found this year.
I had only heard via word of mouth about the sighting on 7 Sep and then seen the photo from a few days ago.
The lack of excitement makes sense in retrospect, given that some of the people in the know were aware of the band.
The rest of us had to wonder whether anybody had done due diligence (as turned out to be true) or whether it was another case of not very well informed indifference toward a species with genuine potential for vagrancy. To me this highlights the importance of the listserv for cases like this that require analysis and explanation.
I'm gonna let it hang out there on the Hot 100 for a while, as my latest lifebird on eBird, to amuse the guilty and punish the innocent!
Shai
________________________________________
From: <bounce-124002490-11143133...> [<bounce-124002490-11143133...>] on behalf of nathan o'reilly [<natron13...>]
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:22 PM
To: Robert Lewis; Long Island Birding .
Cc: birds
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
On the eBird report from Sept 7 you can see a band on the leg.
eBird Checklist - 7 Sep 2019 - Charles Memorial Park - 28 species<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59576345> Hiding a checklist will exclude the taxa on it from all forms of eBird output that show a location (including bar charts, maps, and arrival/departure tables), but the observation will still be accessible to you, and will appear on your lists.
ebird.org
________________________________
From: <bounce-124002397-79824639...> <bounce-124002397-79824639...> on behalf of Long Island Birding . <michaelzito...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5:27 PM
To: Robert Lewis <rfermat...>
Cc: birds <nysbirds-l...>
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
Hello Bob,
Just of note these birds are widely available for purchase online and maybe even in local pet stores. I think many feel that it was probably an escapee rather than the more unlikely scenario of a vagrant, but who knows?
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 5:18 PM Robert Lewis <rfermat...><mailto:<rfermat...>> wrote:
HUH?? This has been present since September 7?? And not a single post of that fact to this server before? Or did I miss it?
Thank you Shai.
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 4:41:42 PM EDT, Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...><mailto:<Shaibal.Mitra...>> wrote:
We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond.
The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at least 7 Sep:
I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the date the present bird was found this year.
________________________________
From: <bounce-124002397-79824639...> <bounce-124002397-79824639...> on behalf of Long Island Birding . <michaelzito...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5:27 PM
To: Robert Lewis <rfermat...>
Cc: birds <nysbirds-l...>
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
Hello Bob,
Just of note these birds are widely available for purchase online and maybe even in local pet stores. I think many feel that it was probably an escapee rather than the more unlikely scenario of a vagrant, but who knows?
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 5:18 PM Robert Lewis <rfermat...><mailto:<rfermat...>> wrote:
HUH?? This has been present since September 7?? And not a single post of that fact to this server before? Or did I miss it?
Thank you Shai.
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 4:41:42 PM EDT, Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...><mailto:<Shaibal.Mitra...>> wrote:
We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond.
The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at least 7 Sep:
I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the date the present bird was found this year.
Date: 10/8/19 2:28 pm From: Long Island Birding . <michaelzito...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
Hello Bob, Just of note these birds are widely available for purchase online and maybe even in local pet stores. I think many feel that it was probably an escapee rather than the more unlikely scenario of a vagrant, but who knows?
Date: 10/8/19 2:16 pm From: Robert Lewis <rfermat...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Lined Seedeater, Queens
HUH?? This has been present since September 7?? And not a single post of that fact to this server before? Or did I miss it?
Thank you Shai.
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 4:41:42 PM EDT, Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> wrote:
We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond.
The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at least 7 Sep:
I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the date the present bird was found this year.
We birders are good at distinguishing between the improbable (e.g., seeing a Lined Seedeater in New York) and the imponderable (e.g., deliberately driving the Belt Parkway on a morning when one had been granted a reprieve from doing so). With a chance at the former as an inducement for the enduring the latter, I visited the Charles Memorial Park this morning, on the north shore of Jamaica Bay, directly north of the parking area where we stage for visits to the north end of the East Pond.
The male Lined Seedeater was skulky but still present, continuing from at least 7 Sep:
I'm not sure why this bird has not garnered more attention within the birding community. Lined Seedeater is a trans-equatorial austral migrant and a plausible candidate for natural vagrancy to North America. There is a specimen from the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, from 8 August 1935 (MCZ), and records of vagrants north of the regular northern South American austral winter (our summer) range from Costa Rica, and from Guadeloupe--the latter from 6-7 Sep 2017, perhaps not coincidentally almost exactly the date the present bird was found this year.
Date: 10/7/19 11:23 am From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Oct. 7, 2019: 8 Species of Wood Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Central Park NYC Monday October 7, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Eight Species of Wood Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoo (4), Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
Canada Goose - 8 Lake Mallard - 35 Mourning Dove - 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 (3 Tupelo Field, 1 Shakespeare Garden) Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird, - 1 Shakespeare Garden Herring Gull - 4 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Turtle Pond Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - around 20 Downy Woodpecker 2 - (Oven and Ramble) Northern Flicker - 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 Strawberry Fields Eastern Phoebe - 1 Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 8 American Crow - 12 flyovers House Wren - 4 Winter Wren - 12 Carolina Wren - 4 (pair Tupelo Field, pair Strawberry Fields) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 American Robin - usual numbers Gray Catbird - 30 to 40 Brown Thrasher - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Ramble) Cedar Waxwing - flock of 6 in flight at Strawberry Fields House Finch - 2 Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - around 15 Eastern Towhee - 11 Common Grackle - flyover 75 Turtle Pond (Bob-7am) incl. white-headed (leucistic) bird Ovenbird - 4 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Triplet's Bridge Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthroat - female Tupelo field American Redstart - 2 Wagner Cove Northern Parula - 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler - female Belvedere Castle Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (Strawberry Fields & Tupelo Field) Scarlet Tanager - 1 Strawberry Fields Northern Cardinal - 7
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/7/19 11:19 am From: Ian Resnick <avian...> Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Dickcissel in Queens
The Dickcissel has not been seen since Steve originally located it. There has been a Blue Grosbeak, and 4 Ravens flew by to the southwest.
Ian Resnick
From: <bounce-123997611-81378724...> [mailto:<bounce-123997611-81378724...>] On Behalf Of Steve Walter Sent: Monday, October 07, 2019 12:42 PM To: NYSBIRDS <NYSBIRDS-L...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Dickcissel in Queens
There's a Dickcissel present in the Oakland Lake Meadow section of Alley Pond Park in Queens.
Date: 10/7/19 6:33 am From: TURNER <redknot...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch - Setauket, NY
Sixteen observers came out on Sunday night, the last night of the Nighthawk Watch, to look for nighthawks but were, alas, disappointed since none were observed. As a consolation prize several species of "winter" ducks have arrived in the pond next to the watch including Northern Shoveler, A. Wigeon both of which displayed males coming out of eclipse plumage.
For the season (August 27th-October 6th) we saw 2,757 nighthawks in 4,276 minutes logged, an average of .644 birds per minute. This figure was well above the totals for 2017 and 2018 in which we saw 2,046 and 2,018 birds, at a rate of .513 and.499 birds per minute, respectively.
Thank you for coming out and participating. Hopefully, we'll see many of you again next year. The Nighthawk Watch has become one of the go-to social events of the Three Village Area!!
Date: 10/6/19 9:42 am From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Chimney Swifts in Yonkers
Just had a flock of Chimney Swifts flying around my yard and over the neighborhood. Thought most had left by now.
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist
20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3
Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4629
www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums
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Date: 10/5/19 6:32 pm From: Ethan Goodman <ethangoodman...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Madison Square Park, Manhattan, 10/5
Our 6-acre jewel of a micro-park finally opened its branches to fall migration today. While it's been a bit slow so far this season, last night's conditions made for an active morning, yielding a year-high of 24 species. Highlights were a four-sparrow Redbud Lawn (Lincoln's, Swamp, White-throated, and House, with Winter Wren too), Sapsuckers in just about every tree, three Scarlet Tanagers in close association at the south end, Osprey and Raven flyovers, Phoebes and a Pewee. Much fun to extract so much avian life from such a relatively small patch of NYC green.
-Ethan
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Date: 10/5/19 4:03 pm From: Steve Walter <swalter15...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] JBWR Hudsonian Godwit / Long-billed Dowitchers
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, East Pond south end, early this afternoon were three Long-billed Dowtichers and a still decently colored Hudsonian Godwit. The only other shorebirds in sight here were Lesser Yellowlegs. Pretty good quality for the little quantity. I did not check the north end, so I can't say whether the Avocets are still around. Also at the south end, two Snow Geese are in.
Date: 10/5/19 3:52 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sat. Oct. 5, 2019: 9 Species of Wood Warblers, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (many)
Central Park NYC Saturday October 5, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Nine Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May Warbler, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, influx of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers.
Canada Goose - 28 (18 in southbound "V") Mallard - 14 Mourning Dove - 4 or 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Belvedere Castle Chimney Swift - 30 to 40 Herring & Ring-billed Gulls - around 40 Reservoir 7:15am,flyover Herring Gulls Double-crested Cormorant - 2 (Reservoir & Turtle Pond) Osprey - over Pinetum Sharp-shinned Hawk - carrying a bird over Ramble near Castle Cooper's Hawk - flyover Balancing Rock Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults over Great Lawn Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 50 to 75 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Tupelo Field Northern Flicker - 10 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 or 3 Eastern Phoebe - 5 or 6 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 (west side Great Lawn, Pinetum) Red-eyed Vireo - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - heard in Ramble House Wren - 5 to 7 Winter Wren - at least 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 7 to 10 Swainson's Thrush - 3 Hermit Thrush - Pinetum American Robin - 30 to 40 Gray Catbird - 75 Brown Thrasher - 5 Cedar Waxwing - 3 or 4 in crab apple in Shakespeare Garden House Finch - 2 (male & immature) King of Poland Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow -2 King of Poland White-throated Sparrow - 10 to 20 Eastern Towhee - male King of Poland Common Grackle - flock of at least 70 (Cedar Hill & east side Maintenance Field) Ovenbird - 1 Persimmon Slope Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 4 Common Yellowthroat - 1 King of Poland American Redstart - 3 or 4 Cape May Warbler - 4 Pinetum Northern Parula - 6 or 7 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 (1 female, 3 males) Pine Warbler - 3 or 4 Scarlet Tanager - 3 Northern Cardinal - 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 2 or 3 heard only
-- Miriam Rakowski reported an Indigo Bunting still showing some black on the face at the Maintenance Field.
-- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/5/19 2:37 pm From: Avery Scott (SkyOfBirds) <wingedwonders...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Marbled Godwits Jones Beach Coast Guard Station
Four Marbled Godwits were still present about an hour ago on the sandbar at the Coast Guard Station. They are in a flock of American Oystercatchers and Black Skimmers, behind the grass.
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Laurie Larson <0000057b603ab9b2-dmarc-request...> Date: Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 3:41 PM Subject: [JERSEYBI] Vermilion flycatcher, Sandy Hook To: <JERSEYBI...>
Vermilion Flycatcher photographed at Sandy Hook, by Jason Denesevich, 3:27 pm. Plum Island is at the southern end of the Hook near the entrance.
Laurie
How to report NJ bird sightings: see < www.njbrc.com/index.php/reporting-rare-birds/> or e-mail to <njbrcreport...> List help: <jerseybi-request...> List archives: https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=jerseybi
You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44 (at)nybirds{dot}org.
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:
Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070
Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 4th 2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are possible MASKED BOOBY, KING EIDER, EURASIAN WIGEON, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, MARBLED GODWIT, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and other shorebirds, LARK SPARROW, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL, CONNECTICUT WARBLER and more.
A week of good variety but certainly not overwhelming numbers was actually highlighted by a possible but unfortunately not confirmable new New York State record when a sulid fitting the description of an adult like MASKED BOOBY was spotted by a single observer flying west off Robert Moses State Park field 2 around 2pm on Thursday afternoon. Under the conditions photos could not be obtained and the bird could not be relocated farther down the coast but it is unexpected opportunities like this that make seawatching so exciting. It should be noted that for new New York State records NYSARC does require that single observer records be accompanied by a photo or other such evidence to be added to the official state list.
Among the increasing numbers of waterfowl a EURASIAN WIGEON was still on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge at least to Tuesday and a female KING EIDER found on Sunday off Orient Point was still present with some Common Eiders and White-winged Scoters today.
Shorebirds on Jamaica Bay's still too high East Pond this week featured up to 3 AMERICAN AVOCETS at least to Tuesday, an HUDSONIAN GODWIT last Sunday and SORA along the pond edge. Another HUDSONIAN GODWIT was at Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area last Saturday with two seen there Wednesday while up to 5 MARBLED GODWITS were present on the bars off Jones Beach West End earlier in the week with another at Oak Beach last Saturday along with an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER. Another GOLDEN-PLOVER flew over Hillview Reservoir on Yonkers Wednesday. Single WHIMBREL were at Rockaway Beach Saturday and Smith Point County Park yesterday and a WILSON'S PHALAROPE was spotted at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes on Monday. Three or four LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS remain at Santapogue Creek in West Babylon with a STILT SANDPIPER there last weekend and birds at Mecox Bay last Saturday featured one BAIRD'S and 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS and 3 CASPIAN TERNS. Other CASPIAN TERNS were noted this week from Brooklyn and Pelham Bay Park along the coast out to Cupsogue and Orient Point and a GULL-BILLED TERN was still at Jones Beach West End last Saturday.
Unusual for Manhattan were a SORA in Madison Square Park Sunday to Tuesday, a VIRGINIA RAIL in Abingdon Square Park Saturday to Thursday and an EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL in Central Park on Monday.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were spotted in Central Park last weekend, at Lenoir Preserve in Yonkers last Saturday and at Jones Beach West End Monday. Single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were found in Manhattan's Washington Square Park Monday, at Oceanside Wednesday and on Randall's Island on Thursday. Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery attracted a DICKCISSEL last Monday, a LARK SPARROW Sunday and Monday, a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW Monday and Tuesday and CONNECTICUT WARBLER Wednesday with a SUMMER TANAGER there Monday. Another DICKCISSEL was in Central Park's north end on Tuesday and Wednesday with a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW also in the park on Sunday. A SUMMER TANAGER also visited Central Park Tuesday and Wednesday with another in Yonkers Tuesday. Another DICKCISSEL visited Brooklyn's Shore Road Park to Wednesday and a BLUE GROSBEAK appeared at Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens Tuesday. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was found at Tudor City Greens last Saturday and a few NELSON'S SPARROWS have arrived at various coastal saltmarshes this week.
To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
Date: 10/4/19 6:31 pm From: Richard Fried, VMD <rfried...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Linnaean Society of NY Program, October 8th, 2019, at the American Museum of Natural History
On Tuesday evening, October 8th, 2019 the Linnaean Society of New York 2019/2020 Speaker Program will feature two new presentations sure to be of interest to New York birders:
6:00 Shawn Billerman – “How Hybridization in Birds Can Teach Us About Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Evolution”
Hybridization occurs when two different species interbreed and produce offspring. While we often think of hybridization in animals as something that’s rare, or something that is a reproductive dead end, it is actually fairly common, and an important tool to help us understand how and why species evolved in the first place. In the bird world, it’s estimated that hybridization occurs in 10% of all species. Hybrid zones, geographic regions where two species overlap and interbreed, have been particularly important in shaping our understanding of evolution. Billerman’s research has focused on studying hybridization in the Great Plains of North America, where multiple pairs of species hybridize, including Eastern and Spotted Towhees, Indigo and Lazuli Buntings, and Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles. Using these species as a guide, we will explore ways in which hybridization in birds, when combined with recent advances in genetics, museum specimens, and climate change can teach us about biodiversity and the evolution of species.
Shawn Billerman currently works at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where he is a Science Editor with the Birds of the World Project. Shawn has also studied hybridization in birds, including between Red-naped and Red-breasted Sapsuckers in the Pacific Northwest, and in towhees, orioles, and buntings in the Great Plains.
7:45 Thomas Gray – “ Conserving South East Asia’s Elusive Rarities”
South East Asia is at the heart of the global extinction crisis containing more threatened species and experiencing higher rates of forest loss than any comparable continental area. As a result of the region's rapid population and economic growth many of its unique and threatened species are being pushed into deeper and remoter corners of the region. This poses a quandary for conservationists—how to find, and then protect, some of the planet's most elusive and poorly known species? This talk will discuss some of the approaches being used by conservation biologists in Asia to find, monitor, and conserve threatened wildlife. These include analyzing DNA contained within blood-feeding leeches to help track-down saola (the Asian Unicorn), interviewing rural Cambodians about the majestic giant ibis, and extracting water from the Mekong River to find shed skin samples from the planet’s largest freshwater fish: the Mekong Giant Catfish.
Tom Gray is the Director of Science for the conservation NGO Wildlife Alliance. He moved to New York, in August 2018, after 15 years in South East Asia. A keen birder since childhood, he followed his passion and undertook his PhD research on the conservation of the Bengal Florican, a threatened species of bustard, in Cambodia. He subsequently worked for WWF and WCS in Cambodia and Laos, leading work on monitoring threatened species and helping governments with protected area management. He joined Wildlife Alliance, the leader in Direct Protection of Forests and Wildlife in tropical Asia, in 2016. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers on the conservation and status of threatened species in Asia and is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.
Both presentations are free and will be held in the Linder Theater on the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Enter at West 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. All welcome!
Complete details of these exciting presentations and the rest of the 2019/2020 program can be found here:
Date: 10/4/19 4:47 pm From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Yonkers and Scarsdale birds
At my friends home in Scarsdale I had a House Wren still hanging around. In Yonkers on Central Ave. at the Elite Investigations building I had an Eastern Phoebe and in my front yard I had a female Magnoila Warbler. I'm still getting hummingbirds at the feeders too.
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist
20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3
Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4629
www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums
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Date: 10/4/19 2:09 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri. Oct. 4, 2019: 14 Species of Wood Warblers, White-crowned & Swamp Sparrows, Turkey Vulture
Central Park - Reservoir and North End, NYC Friday October 4, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Fourteen Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Nashville and Wilson's Warblers, White-crowned & Swamp Sparrows, Yellow bill-ed Cuckoo, Belted Kingfisher, Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Some southbound migrants overhead: Turkey Vulture, and Cooper's Hawk.
Canada Goose - 125 Reservoir Gadwall - 5 Reservoir Mallard - 60 (Harlem Meer, Pool, and Reservoir) Mourning Dove - 5 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 west side of the Loch Chimney Swift - flock of 40 over the Harlem Meer Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 flying past at the Loch Ring-billed Gull - 10 Reservoir Herring Gull - 25 Reservoir Great Black-backed Gull - 17 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - 40 in southbound flock over 5th Avenue Turkey Vulture - 11 southbound over the Harlem Meer at noon Cooper's Hawk - 1 southbound migrant Red-tailed Hawk - 2 flyovers (local birds) Conservatory Garden Belted Kingfisher - Loch Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 near Conservatory Garden Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Great Hill Downy Woodpecker - 1 heard Loch Northern Flicker - 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 west side of the Loch (probably Willow/Alder) Eastern Phoebe - Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 8 American Crow - 5 Winter Wren - 1 Loch Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (the Pool & east of the Great Hill) Veery - just outside Conservatory Garden (a little late in the season) Amercan Robin - around 30 Gray Catbird - around 40 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Conservatory Garden Brown Thrasher - 5 Cedar Waxwing - flock of 6 flying over the Wildflower Meadow House Finch - 5 American Goldfinch - 6 Chipping Sparrow - 10 Song Sparrow - 1 south side of the Compost Area Swamp Sparrow - 2 at the Loch White-throated Sparrow - 10 (4 at the Wildflower Meadow) White-crowned Sparrow - immature (first-cycle) N. Meadow Ball fields (Bob-early) Eastern Towhee - 3 Loch Common Grackle - 1 Harlem Meer Ovenbird - 1 Fort clinton Northern Waterthrush - 1 Loch Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Nashville Warbler - 3 west side of the Pool Common Yellowthroat - 4 American Redstart - 6 Cape May Warbler - adult male Great Hill (Enrico Leonardi) Northern Parula - 10 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Yellow Warbler - 2 Meer Island Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 west side of the Pool Blackpoll Warbler - 2 (Great Hill, Meer Island) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 3 females Wilson's Warbler - Meer Island (Enrico Leonardi & Vicki Seabrook) Scarlet Tanager - male east side of the Loch (Vicki Seabrook) Northern Cardinal - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 Loch
On Thursday evening our fellow bird walk leader Sandra Critelli @alexcritelli7 spotted a Fox Sparrow at Azalea Pond, the first of the season for Central Park, reporting it on the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark.
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 10/4/19 5:52 am From: Sean Sime <sean...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Interesting Sulid at RMSP yesterday
Yesterday afternoon at 2pm a very interesting sulid passed Field 2 at
Robert Moses State Park that showed many characteristics consistent with an
adult Masked Booby. Below are my field notes written immediately after the
sighting.
"“Picked up the bird in scope when it was at roughly “1 o’clock “ and
slowly being pushed west by the ENE wind.
Immediately stood out as an adult or near adult sulid. It was drifting and
making wobbly circles and not actively feeding. It wasn’t giving me a
dorsal view of the spread wing, but even in profile the amount of black
seemed extensive in the primaries. I could see black feathering at the base
of the light colored bill. The head color matched the white of the body.
When the bird finally banked I could see the black extended past the
primaries and included all the secondaries as well. The only white on the
upper wing was the leading edge back to the coverts and from the body to
the wrist. The black appeared solid and not blotchy.
Overall the bird appeared smaller and less powerful than NOGA”
An attempt to race to get ahead of it and seawatch from Long Beach proved
fruitless. Although not a chaseable bird, it's worth getting the word out
as a reminder that early autumn easterlies can produce along the coast.
This year there were (and still are) numbers of Brown Booby and other more
"tropical" species in the NE which will likely reorient with each passing
cold front and cooling water temps.
The 6th Annual Seatuck LI Birding Challenge was conducted on 28 September this year, and despite the date being later than in past years, the weather was still more like summer than fall. The persistent tendency for the wind to be lightly from the northeast and the warm, sunny weather no doubt was responsible for smaller numbers and less variety of migrant species than would be expected, many of them most likely leftover from the last good flight day. Many folks rued the slow pace and low number of species found on this hot day, yet enthusiasm was still high all the way to the five o’clock hour when the compilation and celebrations began at the lovely Scully mansion.
Competing this year were five senior teams with a total of 21 participants and six high school teams with over a dozen (not all names were submitted). Senior teams found 155 species, and the high school teams found 41 species; they added two not seen by the senior teams, Ring-necked Duck and Least Tern, bringing the total to 157 species. Not bad for a day in the doldrums!
The cumulative total for the six years now stands at 235, with four species added this year: Lesser Scaup (Bird Brainz and Four Harbors Herons at Connetquot River SP), Northern Saw-whet Owl (Pteam Ptarmigeddon, Northport), Winter Wren (Outlaws, Southards Pond Park), and White-crowned Sparrow (Four Harbors Herons, Jones Beach West End).
The Outlaws took first place with 113 species and 15 “saves” (species not seen by any other team). All of the Outlaws have long histories competing in the challenge, often together in various combinations, and generally producing very competitive totals—but always short of first place. Thus, it was a satisfying reward to finally wrest the coveted trophy from the younger whipper-snapper teams!
In second place were the Four Harbors Herons, with 107, and in third place, Pteam Ptarmigeddon with 100. The Three-legged Ravens! took first prize for the high school teams, seeing an impressive 31 of the 41 total species for that group. All the senior teams came in with multiple “saves”, making for a nice variety of the more unusual species.
Thanks to Enrico Nardone and the Seatuck team for organizing and hosting this increasingly popular and exciting event. For more information on this important organization, visit the website at:
Date: 10/2/19 11:30 am From: Sy Schiff <icterus...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside
The day started slow but picked up considerably when Mike Farina and I saw an adult and juvenile HUDSONIAN GODWIT feeding. Both birds soon flew off. Among the few Shorebird species was a group of 12 KILLDEER.
The trail along the BACK fence had a LINCOLN , several SWAMP and SONG SPARROWS as well as SAVANNAH SPARROWS around the main trail plus a SALTMARSH SPARROW in the marsh. In the dune area there were single YELLOW-RUMPED and a BLACKPOLL WARBLER. Also, a very brief look at a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT.
Other birds of interested were COOPER’S HAWK, GREAT BLUE HERON, BELTED KINGFISHER, CAROLINA WREN, NORTHERN FLICKER and BROWN THRASHER.
Sy Schiff
Date: 10/2/19 8:07 am From: TURNER <redknot...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch - Setauket, NY
Last night we had a highly productive count with 237 nighthawks coming through. Typically, by early October the numbers start waning so the total for 10/1 was a large surprise. Will be curious to see how the weather over the next couple of days affects the count.
Thought many of you would be interested in my next guests Mike Lanzone, Casey Halverson and David LaPuma
who gives a deep dive into the world of Wildlife Telemetry. https://bit.ly/2akUsxp
Date: 10/1/19 9:06 am From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Sept. 30, 2019: Philly Vireo, 13 Warbler Species, E. Whip-poor-will and Dickcissel Reports
Central Park NYC Monday September 30, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob
Highlights: Philadelphia Vireo, Thirteen Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May, Chestnut-sided, and Yellow Palm Warblers, E. Whip-poor-will and Dickcissel Reports. In addition, a Sora was reported at Madison Square Park, and a Virginia Rail continued in Abingdon Square Park.
Canada Goose - 8 Lake Mallard - 20 (Lake & Turtle Pond) Mourning Dove - 8 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - around 30 Belted Kingfisher - heard and seen flyover Azalea Pond Solitary Sandpiper - 1 at the Oven (David Barrett) Herring Gull - 3 or 4 flyovers Ramble Double-crested Cormorant - 5 (1 perched Turtle Pond & 4 flyovers Ramble) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 5 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Summer House Northern Flicker - 60 Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 (Shakespeare Garden & Oven) Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 Eastern Phoebe - 3 Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Philadelphia Vireo - 2 in Strawberry Fields Warbling Vireo - 1 east side of Maintenance Field Red-eyed Vireo - 15 Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - 6 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Azalea Pond House Wren - 10 winter Wren - 8 Carolina Wren - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 5 Swainson's Thrush - 5 American Robin - around 50 Gray Catbird - easily 125 Brown Thrasher - 20 to 25 Cedar Waxwing - 30 to 45 (3 flocks) House Finch - 3 Strawberry Fields Song Sparrow - 3 turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - 3 White-crowned Sparrow - hatch-year Strawberry Fields (Deb) Eastern Towhee - female Strawberry Fields Common Grackle - flock of 80 at the Oven Ovenbird - 1 Tupelo Field Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthroat - 4 American Redstart - 10 Cape May Warbler - 1 east of Azalea Pond Northern Parula - 25 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Ramble Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Ramble (Carine Mitchell) Blackpoll Warbler - 7 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 (male & female) Ramble Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" (Great Lawn & Strawberry Fields) Pine Warbler - 1 Strawberry Fields Scarlet Tanager - 12 Northern Cardinal - 10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 seen + 10 heard-only Indigo Bunting - 1 Tupelo Field -- An Eastern Whip-poor-will was reported at Hallett Monday by Florence Marcisak @FMarcisak via the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark. Frank Rutellea reported the first Dark-eyed Junco of the season at the North End Monday. A Dickcissel was reported at the North End Monday by @jhonny_2003. -- Ethan Goodman @emginnyc reported a Sora at Madison Square Park Monday. And the Virginia Rail continued at Abingdon Square Park Monday and today (many observers).
Date: 9/30/19 2:37 pm From: <info2...> Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] Virginia Rail at Abingdon Square, W. Village, Manhattan YES
The Virginia Rail was still in Abington Square Park (West Village, NYC) today as of 5PM. It was spending most of the time foraging in shrubbery (and not visible), but made occasional forays across the paths and open lawn.
Zack Winestine
> On Sep 30, 2019, at 12:09 AM, Todd Olson wrote:
>
> Evidently a Virginia Rail has been present in lower Manhattan's Abingdon
> Square Park for a day or so. A visit Sunday morning was rewarded with a
> bit of patience. Bird takes refuge in the green perennial patches, but
> ventures out to forage at edges and more open exposures without
> provocation.
Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 23, 2019
Highlights:
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GLOSSY IBIS
CACKLING GOOSE
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
STILT SANDPIPER
PEREGRINE FALCON
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
MOURNING WARBLER
CAPE MAY WARBLER
PRAIRIE WARBLER
LINCOLN’S SPARROW
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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Shorebirds seen at the complex this week.
SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
KILLDEER
WILSON’S SNIPE
GREATER YELLOWLEGS
LESSER YELLOWLEGS
SPOTTED SANDPIPER
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
STILT SANDPIPER
SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER
DUNLIN
PECTORAL SANDPIPER
9/25: 7 Warbler species and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO were seen on Howland Island.
9/26: the last day for a positive sighting of the GLOSSY IBIS at Knox-Marsellus Marsh.
9/28: A PEREGRINE FALCON, 3 LINCOLN’S SPARROWS, a STILT SANDPIPER and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER were all noted on the Wildlife Drive.
9/29: A CACKLING GOOSE and a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen from East Road. A PHILADELPHIA VIREO and a late MOURNING WARBLER were seen along Towpath Road.
Onondaga County
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9/25: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen along the Onondaga Creek Creek Walk north of Hiawatha Blvd. in Syracuse.
9/26: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen at Green Lakes State Park.
9/28: A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was see at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville.
9/29: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO and 11 Warbler species including 7 CAPE MAYS were seen at Oneida Shores State Park. 12 Warbler species including 2 BAY BREASTED WARBLERS were seen at Three Rivers WMA. A PEREGRIND FALCON was seen fro Jamesville Ave. in Syracuse.
Oswego County
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9/26: A PRAIRIE WARBLER was seen in Constantia.
9/28: A PIPIT was seen on Baum Road in Hastings.
Madison County
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9/24: A LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was seen at the Madison Street Impoundment north of Hamilton.
9/27: A CACKLING GOOSE was seen on Woodman Pond north of Hamilton.
9/28: A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOODE was seen on Co. Rt. 85 near Woodman Pond.
Oneida County
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9/25: A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen near Rt.12 south of Clinton.
9/28: 9 Warbler species including 6 CAPE MAYS were seen at the Woodford Memorial State Forest east of Sangerfield.
Date: 9/30/19 11:08 am From: Joseph O'Sullivan <josullivan58...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western Kingbird Kissena Corridor In Queens
Right now I am viewing a very cooperative Western Kingbird in Kissena
Corridor Park. It is in the eastern section of the park on the north side
of the park. It’s viewable from Underhill Road. It’s about a half a block
from 164th Street.
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Date: 9/29/19 4:32 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sun. Sept. 29, 2019: 11 Warbler Species, Clay-colored Sparrow, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Y-b Cuckoo
Central Park NYC Sunday September 29, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Eleven Species of Wood Warblers including Cape May and Bay-breasted, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Clay-colored Sparrow reported at North End.
Canada Goose - at least 60 Gadwall - 2 pairs on the Reservoir Mallard - 40+ Mourning Dove - 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 at the Oven Ring-billed Gull - 24 Reservoir Herring Gull - 19 Reservoir & flyovers Great Black-backed Gull - 5 Reservoir Double-crested Cormorant - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult on the Point Osprey - high flyover Maintenance Field Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2 flyovers Boathouse & Tupelo Field Cooper's Hawk - flyover Tupelo field (with one of the Sharp-shins) Red-tailed Hawk - immature low over Shakespeare Garden Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Tupelo Field Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 9 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 (Summer House (David Barredd), Oven) Eastern Phoebe - 1 Shakespeare Garden Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 6 American Crow - flyover of 4 or 5 seen and heard from the Oven Carolina Wren - Iphigene's Walk Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Summer House Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3 Swainson's Thrush - Shakespeare Garden American Robin - two dozen Gray Catbird - 10 NOrthern Mockingbird - 1 Warbler Rock Brown Thrasher - 10 Cedar Waxwing - 1 Upper Lobe House Finch - 3 SE Turtle Pond American Goldfinch - 2 east of Azalea Pond White-throated Sparrow - 3 or 4 Eastern Towhee - 3 (Bob - early) Common Grackle - 7 Northern Waterthrush - Oven Black-and-white Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 2 (male & female) Tupelo Field American Redstart - 7 Cape May Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle & east of Azalea Pond) Northern Parula - 4 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 SE Turtle Pond Blackpoll Warbler - 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler - female Humming Tombstone Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 east of Azalea Pond Scarlet Tanager - 4 Northern Cardinal - 10 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 (2 females, 1 hatch-year male) Oven --
Benny Romero @Benny33946306 photographed a Clay-colored Sparrow at the Grassy Knoll (just north of the North Meadow Ball Fields) reporting via the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark.
-- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 9/29/19 10:13 am From: Nancy Shamban <nancyshamban...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Virginia Rail at Abingdon Square, W. Village, Manhattan
ONG. I’m in Paris and there is a Virginia Rail 2 minutes from my home!!!
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> On Sep 29, 2019, at 3:58 PM, Todd Olson <gothamdweller...> wrote:
>
> Evidently a Virginia Rail has been present in lower Manhattan's Abingdon Square Park for a day or so. A visit Sunday morning was rewarded with a bit of patience. Bird takes refuge in the green perennial patches, but ventures out to forage at edges and more open exposures without provocation.
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60202791 >
> Todd Olson, Greater NYC
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Date: 9/29/19 8:00 am From: TURNER <redknot...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch, Setauket, NY
September 25th- 92 nighthawks, 97 minutes (2165 nighthawks, 3316 minutes)
September 26th- 15 nighthawks, 87 minutes (2180 nighthawks, 3403 minutes)
September 27th- 172 nighthawks, 95 minutes. (2352 nighthawks, 3498 minutes)
September 28th- 90 nighthawks, 92 minutes (2442 nighthawks, 3590 minutes)
The last four nights have remained productive with the totals shown above. The Watch has established a new seasonal total for the number of nighthawks seen with 2,442 birds seen to date, breaking the 2017 high total of 2,046 birds, and we still have eight more days to go! (We saw 2018 nighthawks in 2018)
Date: 9/29/19 6:58 am From: Todd Olson <gothamdweller...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Virginia Rail at Abingdon Square, W. Village, Manhattan
Evidently a Virginia Rail has been present in lower Manhattan's Abingdon Square Park for a day or so. A visit Sunday morning was rewarded with a bit of patience. Bird takes refuge in the green perennial patches, but ventures out to forage at edges and more open exposures without provocation.
Date: 9/28/19 5:47 pm From: Corey Finger <10000birdsblogger...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Queens Big Sit on Saturday, 10/12
The sixth annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit will take place at the Battery Harris Platform at Fort Tilden in, you guessed it, Queens, on Saturday, 12 October. (If we get horrific weather we’ll move it to the 13th.)
The Big Sit is an all-day-long event where we seek to see as many species as possible from a single location in 24 hours (though we usually start an hour or so before dawn and go until dark). Last year we crushed our record when we saw 91 species and we hope to at least come close to that tally again this year.
If you want to come you don’t have to spend the whole day. You can come for a quick visit, an extended stay, or join us for the whole shebang. Feel free to bring snacks and warm beverages!
P.S. The Queens County Christmas Bird Count will be Sunday, 15 December, this year if you can’t get enough birding in the best borough in NYC. We’d love to have some more folks join the count this year!
Date: 9/28/19 2:11 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sat. Sept. 29, 2019: 12 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Bay-breasted & Chestnut-sided Warblers
Central Park NYC Saturday September 29, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Twelve Species of Wood Warblers including Bay-breasted & Chestnut-sided Warblers, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Brown Thrasher, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Mourning Dove - 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 at Jewelweed patch at the Oven Herring Gull - 3 flyovers Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult Upper Lobe Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Gill Overlook, east of Azalea Pond) Northern Flicker - 5 to 7 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 (Gill Source, Warbler Rock) Eastern Phoebe - Tupelo Field Red-eyed Vireo - 5 or 6 Blue Jay - 5 White-breasted Nuthatch - east of Azalea Pond (Karen Evans) House Wren - Bow Bridge Island Swainson's Thrush - 2 or 3 in Ramble Wood Thrush - 5 American Robin - 30+ Gray catbird - 15 Brown Thrasher - 15-20 Cedar Waxwing - 25 in 2 flocks (Upper Lobe Lawn & Swampy Pin Oak) House Finch - 3 Maintenance Field American Goldfinch - 2 east of Azalea Pond Eastern Towhee - female east side of Maintenance Field Common Grackle - 5 Ovenbird - 2 (Summer House, Evodia Field) Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe Black-and-white Warbler - 6 Common Yellowthroat - 1 Tupelo Field American Redstart - 8 including 1 adult male Northern Parula - 6 Magnolia Warbler - 2 south side of Maintenance Field Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 Humming Tombstone Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 (Humming Tombstone & east of Azalea Pond) Blackpoll Warbler - 1 south end of Maintenance field Black-throated Blue Warbler - male & female Evodia Field Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 east of Azalea Pond Scarlet Tanager - 2 (Humming Tombstone & east of Azalea Pond) Northern Cardinal - 16 Chez Armando (top of Oven) Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 6 to 10 -- A hatch-year Red-headed Woodpecker was reported at the Loch via the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark on twitter. Lots of Pin Oak acorns this year, so a Red-headed woodpecker may over-winter.
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 9/28/19 5:55 am From: Corey Finger <10000birdsblogger...> Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] Avocet, Jamaica Bay
Make that two!
Good Birding,
Corey
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> On Sep 28, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Corey Finger <10000birdsblogger...> wrote:
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> There is an American Avocet at the north end of the East Pond right now. Viewable, but not great looks, from the raunt.
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> Good Birding,
> Corey Finger
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 27,
2019 at 10:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results including NORTHERN
FULMAR, AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER, POMARINE JAEGER and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE,
EURASIAN WIGEON, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, HUDSONIAN
and MARBLED GODWITS, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CONNECTICUT
WARBLER, CLAY-COLORED and LARK SPARROWS, DICKCISSEL, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
Last Sunday a pelagic trip organized by See Life Paulagics aboard the
Brooklyn VI began a pleasant day on the ocean at water depth of over 7,000
feet, later working back through Hudson Canyon, with highlights including
21 NORTHERN FULMARS, 12 CORY’S, 323 GREAT and 23 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS, 1
LEACH’S and 222 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, an adult POMARINE JAEGER, 1
NORTHERN GANNET, 7 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 6 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES.
Though the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge still has too high a
water level to attract large numbers of shorebirds, waterfowl numbers
continue to build there, with a EURASIAN WIGEON showing up on the pond last
Saturday. Despite the conditions, a reasonable selection of shorebirds
this week did feature some HUDSONIAN GODWITS, with 5 noted there Monday,
while Tuesday produced both a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and a WILSON’S
PHALAROPE. Among the other shorebirds there have been a few STILT,
PECTORAL, and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, with a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER also
identified there last Sunday.
Roughly 4 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS also continue along Santapogue Creek off
Venetian Boulevard in West Babylon.
At Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx, drained for the second time recently,
there were still 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS present Monday, 2 on Tuesday,
and a STILT SANDPIPER visited there today.
Among the shorebirds at Jones Beach West End there were 3 or 4 MARBLED
GODWITS seen on the bar off the Coast Guard Station through Monday, with 1
there Wednesday. A GULL-BILLED TERN also visited the bar from Saturday at
least to Wednesday, and another GULL-BILLED was noted at Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge Wednesday.
Up to 3 CASPIAN TERNS were at Jones Beach West End over last weekend, and
others were reported from Prospect Park Lake last Saturday, Plumb Beach
Monday, Jamaica Bay Tuesday, and Smith Point County Park in Shirley
Tuesday, the latter site on Tuesday also producing 65 ROYAL TERNS along
with 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS offshore.
A nice coastal fall flight took place Wednesday morning, witnessed by
observers at both Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn and at Robert Moses
State Park Field 2 on Fire Island. The mix of the most common of the
identified WARBLERS varied slightly, but the flight featured good numbers
of NORTHERN WATERTHUSH, BLACK-AND-WHITE, TENNESSEE, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT,
AMERICAN REDSTART, CAPE MAY, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA and BLACKPOLL, with
lesser numbers of several other species. A CONNECTICUT was identified at
Moses Park, and 2 WHIMBREL and a DICKCISSEL were among the other highlights
there.
Another DICKCISSEL was spotted at Jamaica BayWildlife Refuge last Saturday.
A few BLUE GROSBEAKS included one at Moses Park Saturday to Tuesday,
another at Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers Tuesday, and 1 at Sunken Meadow
State Park Thursday.
A LARK SPARROW was reported from Midland Beach on Staten Island Wednesday,
and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW featured singles at Moses Park last Saturday, and
on Wednesday at Lido Beach Passive Preserve and Pelham Bay Park.
A few YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS included birds at Moses Park Sunday and
Tuesday, at the Avalon Preserve in Stony Brook Monday, and at the Oceanside
Marine Nature Study Area today.
Migrant RED-HEADED WOODPECKSERS appeared on Staten Island Sunday, in
Prospect Park Tuesday, and on Governors Island today.
Other recent migrants have included a decent number of YELLOW-BILLED
CUCKOOS, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, and LINCOLN’S and
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.
To phone in reports please call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922 and leave a
message.
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Date: 9/27/19 4:26 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri. Sept. 27, 2019: Y-b Cuckoo, Lincoln's Sparrow, 15 Warbler Species incl. Tennessee & Cape May
Central Park NYC - North End & Ramble Friday, September 27, 2019 OBS: Deborah Allen, Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: Lincoln's Sparrow, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 15 Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Cape May, Prairie & Black-throated Green Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Great Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
Canada Goose - 11 Harlem Meer Mallard - 40+ American Black Duck - Upper Lobe Mourning Dove - at least 2 dozen Yellow-billed cuckoo - Tupelo Field Chimney Swift - 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 (1 at the Pool (Peter Haskel), 3 at the Oven) Herring Gull - flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - Lake Great Blue Heron - flying around over the Pool & perched Bald Eagle - flyover north end (Vicki Seabrook) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 (perched at the Loch, 2 flyovers) Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Upper Lobe Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 8 Great Crested Flycatcher - heard Strawberry Fields Eastern Wood-Pewee - 8 Empidonax Flycatcher - Tupelo field Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Persimmon Slope & West Blowdown) Red-eyed Vireo - 8 Blue Jay - 10-12 American Crow - 3 together over Fort Clinton House Wren - 3 Winter Wren - 2 (Pool (David Barrett), Ramble) Carolina Wren - 3 (pair Strawberry Fields, heard s. of Nutter's Battery) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 Veery - east of Swampy Pin Oak in Ramble Swainson's Thrush - 4 Wood Thrush - 3 in Ramble Gray Catbird - 16 Northern Mockingbird - 6 to 8 (most near the North End Compost) Brown Thrasher - a dozen (11 Ramble, 1 Pool (David Barrett)) House Finch - 12 American Goldfinch - 3 (2 Loch, 1 Wildflower Meadow) Song Sparrow - 3 Lincoln's Sparrow - north end of Strawberry Fields Swamp Sparrow - 3 (2 Tupelo Field, 1 Pool (David Barrett)) White-throated Sparrow - 3 North End Common Grackle - around 20 (Turtle Pond & Ramble) Ovenbird - 3 (2 Ramble, 1 Great Hill) Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Turtle Pond & Upper Lobe) Black-and-white Warbler - 12 Tennessee Warbler - 3 (1 Pool (Dan S.), 2 west side of Great Hill) Common Yellowthroat - 6 American Redstart - 17 (2 adult males) Cape May Warbler - 3 west side of the Pool (Vicki Seabrook & Peter Haskel) Northern Parula - 17 Magnolia Warbler - 9 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (Loch, Humming Tombstone, Upper Lobe) Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 females Palm Warbler - 1 North End Compost (reported earlier by Dennis Newsham) Pine Warbler - 1 Loch Prairie Warbler - 1 North End Compost (reported earlier by Dennis Newsham) Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 east of Belvedere Castle Scarlet Tanager - 2 males (Swampy Pin Oak & Tupelo Field) Northern Cardinal - 9 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 8 or 9, others heard
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Date: 9/27/19 3:48 pm From: Steve Walter <swalter15...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Jones Beach: Marbled Godwits, Gull-billed Tern, Empi
There are now 4 Marbled Godwits in the Jones Beach area. They were embedded in the large Oystercatcher roost, which this morning was on the outer part of the sand spit near the Coast Guard station. All left about half way down on the falling tide.
One reason for going there today was to hopefully catch up with the lingering Gull-billed Tern. As late is it now is for one to be around, I suspected (and actually had seen a distant photo of it) that it would be in a plumage that I didn't have. After a previous trip in which I only saw it as a fly by, I succeeded in getting pictures today. It looks to me to be a molting adult, not all the way into winter plumage. If I'm wrong, my tern guru will let me know. I posted a picture at my web site (http://stevewalternature.com/ ).
I also posted pictures of an Empidonax flycatcher (one of the very few migrants that I came across). Sadly, after many years of birding, I can't say that I've mastered expertise in these guys (and I don't have an Empi guru). When I looked at the pictures, I got the impression of a buffy wash on the belly. But surely, that must be yellow? As in Yellow-bellied Flycatcher? But it doesn't strike me as that, and it is kind of late. Acadian? Gotta study up on primary projections.
There is currently one stilt sandpiper with a few killdeer and a lesser yellowlegs in the tub at Jerome resevior.a rare visitor to the bronx but seen often on the island and Jamaica bay.spotted by university and reservoir avenues close too the fence.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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Date: 9/27/19 7:22 am From: Sy Schiff <icterus...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] marine nature study area-Yellow-breasted Chat
A Yellow-breasted Chat, 2 Marsh Wrens and a Common Yellowthroat were hiding in a series of shrubs along the trail just past the bridge at the north end of the pond. They finally came out for looks, but only the wren stayed long enough to get a picture.
Sy Schiff
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AMER. WHITE PELICAN CONNECTICUT WARBLER AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Semipalmated Plover Red-headed Wdpkr. Eastern Bluebird Gray Catbird Cape May Warbler Pine Warbler Chipping Sparrow
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
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Highlights of reports received September 12 through September 26 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
A unique sight from downtown Buffalo. September 25, an AMER. WHITE PELICAN, viewed in flight from the 15th floor of the Rand Building on Lafayette Square. The pelican was seen by three observers.
September 24 and 25, at the Beaver Meadow Audubon Center in Wyoming County, a rare CONNECTICUT WARBLER.
In Dunkirk this week, at Saint Hyacinth Cemetery and the adjacent field on Route 5, two AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, plus RED-HEADED WDPKR., GRAY CATBIRD, 6 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, 5 CHIPPING SPARROWS, CAPE MAY WARBLER and PINE WARBLER.
You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
Date: 9/25/19 12:37 pm From: Jack Rothman <jacroth1...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Hunter Island warblers today, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
There was lots of warbler activity, birds seem to have landed and spread out quickly. I know I missed some species and saw multiples of the ones listed.
(Thought there was a Mourning Warbler but couldn’t stay on it long enough for a positive ID.)
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black and White Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Common Yellowthoat
American Redstart
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Northern Parula
Black -throated Blue Warbler
Most birds were seen at the very beginning of the wooded area as you proceed up the hill from the parking area.
It looks like Patrick Horan had some terrific birds at the other end of the park in the southern zone.
The Bronx has good birding, we need more observers.
Date: 9/25/19 11:30 am From: kevin rogers <kev31317...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Clay-colored sparrow - lido preserve passive nature area-nassau county
A clay colored sparrow is showing well at lido passive preserve...by the bench near the wetland trail path and sign. It pops out of the low underbrush and poses! Kev --
Currently in pehlam bay parks south zone off the landfill are many species.migrant's included so far at least one clay-colored sparrow seen with a Lincoln sparrow.this on top of last night's white-crowned sparrow.many warblers and a few swainsons thrushes.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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Date: 9/25/19 5:47 am From: Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Long Island Morning Flight
The morning flight on coastal Long Island is very heavy and diverse today, as viewed with Doug Gochfeld, Shane Blodgett and others at Coney Island Creek Park, Kings, and by Michael McBrien at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk. I would expect it to continue for another hour and a half or so at outer beach sites, with large numbers of migrants on the ground everywhere also. Check eBird for details.
Shai Mitra
Bay Shore (currently running to class on Staten Island)
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Date: 9/24/19 8:00 pm From: Ben Cacace <bcacace...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Bryant Park, Manhattan: Lincoln's Sparrow, 23-24 Sep
A Lincoln's Sparrow has been seen over the past two days in the begonia garden surrounding the bird bath at the northeast corner of the park. This is on the west side of the New York Public library just south of the restrooms. It was discovered on Monday evening and spotted again today during lunch hour.
Location: 40th-42nd St. east of 6th Ave. -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC
Date: 9/24/19 7:27 pm From: Joshua Malbin <joshuamalbin...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Royal Terns on Long Island
Last year and this year I have seen a number of Royal Terns in Brooklyn banded with field-readable bands -- six this summer and early fall alone. They have all been juveniles banded a month or two before I saw them, all from one of two colonies in Virginia, either near Chincoteague or Hampton City. Based on their behavior with the other terns around them, it seems clear they are traveling with a parent or both parents. It is impossible to know the origin of all the birds without field-readable bands, of course, but it seems likely that many or most of the Royal Terns that appear on Long Island in late summer are coming north from Virginia in search of bait fish after their breeding season is over.
Others may have reached the same conclusion independently a long time before me.
Date: 9/24/19 7:22 pm From: TURNER <redknot...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch - Setauket, NY
Another productive night with stunning skies and clouds with 152 nighthawks flying through it. We've now passed 2,000 birds.....saw the red bat again......we were joined by Spike Millington, Vice President and Director of the Asia Program at the International Crane Foundation.
Date: 9/24/19 6:27 pm From: Robert Lewis <rfermat...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
Its intersection with Pine Island Turnpike is unmarked and it appears to be a public road. However, it is of no value to the birder as it ends quickly at some businesses.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY
On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 5:45:39 PM EDT, Ajit Antony <aiantony...> wrote:
Transport Lane is another private road that birders are not welcome on.... for about 15 years.
Ajit I. Antony
Mearns Bird Club, Orange County New York
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:52 PM -0400, "ArieGilbert" <ArieGilbert...> wrote:
Trespassing is *against the law*. Adults should know this. Birders or photographers are *not* exempt.
See the following document on proper behavior. Sheesh, does it really need to be posted? Apparently and sadly yes. Yes it does.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxxY2JpcmRjbHVifGd4OjcyZDE1Nzk1MDNjZWM3Yzc It will not take a lot for the selfish and inconsiderate to ruin it for the rest of us. Dont be one of them!
Arie GilbertNorth Babylon Queens County Bird Club inc.
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-------- Original message --------From: Peter <pwpost...> Date: 9/23/19 3:22 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> Cc: Robert Lewis <rfermat...>, nys birds <NYSbirds-L...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
One should never enter the fields on Indiana Road. The last time I was there there were birders from a number of states trampling all of the fields, much to the dismay (right fully so) of the local farmers. So much so that there was talk of putting up a locked entrance gate.
Peter Post
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On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:18 PM, Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> wrote:
There a several private roads but you can enter through Skinner’s lane and drive in the direction of Route 12 and look around for migrating shorebirds (now in early fall). You will pass several sad farms and now there a few “protected” medical cannabis farms too, and the area is under surveillance.
https://ebird.org/hotspots?hs=L1276465&yr=all&m= The other road that is private but birders use is Indiana rd that is good for migrating hawks in Fall.
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 Avoid to enter the crop fields when you see workers and stay on the main dirt roads.
The other place to go is Pine Island Turf Nursery. I suggest NOT to visit that farm during the week since they are working and preparing the fields for winter. I generally go there ONLY during the weekends, when the place is more quiet.
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 Good luck!
Felipe
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...> wrote:
A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane,41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at 41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris andTransport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY
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Date: 9/24/19 2:45 pm From: Ajit Antony <aiantony...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
Transport Lane is another private road that birders are not welcome on.... for about 15 years.
Ajit I. Antony
Mearns Bird Club, Orange County New York
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:52 PM -0400, "ArieGilbert" <ArieGilbert...> wrote:
Trespassing is *against the law*. Adults should know this. Birders or photographers are *not* exempt.
See the following document on proper behavior. Sheesh, does it really need to be posted? Apparently and sadly yes. Yes it does.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxxY2JpcmRjbHVifGd4OjcyZDE1Nzk1MDNjZWM3Yzc It will not take a lot for the selfish and inconsiderate to ruin it for the rest of us. Dont be one of them!
Arie GilbertNorth Babylon Queens County Bird Club inc.
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-------- Original message --------From: Peter <pwpost...> Date: 9/23/19 3:22 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> Cc: Robert Lewis <rfermat...>, nys birds <NYSbirds-L...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
One should never enter the fields on Indiana Road. The last time I was there there were birders from a number of states trampling all of the fields, much to the dismay (right fully so) of the local farmers. So much so that there was talk of putting up a locked entrance gate.
Peter Post
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:18 PM, Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> wrote:
There a several private roads but you can enter through Skinner’s lane and drive in the direction of Route 12 and look around for migrating shorebirds (now in early fall). You will pass several sad farms and now there a few “protected” medical cannabis farms
too, and the area is under surveillance.
Avoid to enter the crop fields when you see workers and stay on the main dirt roads.
The other place to go is Pine Island Turf Nursery. I suggest NOT to visit that farm during the week since they are working and preparing the fields for winter. I generally go there ONLY during the weekends, when the place is more quiet.
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...> wrote:
A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be
on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane,
41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent
gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at
41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris and
Transport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
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Date: 9/24/19 1:39 pm From: Robert Lewis <rfermat...> Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
On my excursion of two days ago, which I posted about, I saw no "do not enter" or "private property" signs. I am speaking of the gravel roads. I would not even think of entering the fields.
Bob Lewis
On Monday, September 23, 2019, 4:05:43 PM EDT, sophiesaid <sophiesaid...> wrote:
Please note: that birding the farm formally known as the Warren Sod Farm (now known as the Sunflower Valley Farm) hasbeen *RESTRICTED* since last year and is not accessible to birders. I have had conversations with the owner and he wanted me to pass along this information.To my knowledge there hasn't been any updates since then.
Felipe and Bob: Warren Sod Farm/Sunflower Valley Farm is the farm that the entrance is on Rt 12 between the silos. This road leads to the "bridge: that Bob mentioned. The other side of the bridge is Skinner's Lane. This is private property and the farmer has stated that it is off-limits to birders. They allow access by invitation only.
Pine Turf Nursery: Please stop and ask for permission at the office first. The farmer have stated that they do not want cars on their road after a heavy rain.Please keep this in mind.
Skinner's Lane: Still open, but occasionally a worker will harass birders. THIS IS NOT A THROUGH ROAD. Please trun around before the bridge,as the farm across from the Skinner's Lane farm is the farm that is restricted to birders. Please exit through the same entrance you entered off Pulasky Highway.
Please be birding ambassadors in the Black Dirt. Many Black Dirt farmers are seeing their requests disregarded.
Linda
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To: Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...>
Cc: Robert Lewis <rfermat...>; nys birds <NYSbirds-L...>
Sent: Mon, Sep 23, 2019 3:22 pm
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
One should never enter the fields on Indiana Road. The last time I was there there were birders from a number of states trampling all of the fields, much to the dismay (right fully so) of the local farmers. So much so that there was talk of putting up a locked entrance gate.
Peter Post
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:18 PM, Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> wrote:
There a several private roads but you can enter through Skinner’s lane and drive in the direction of Route 12 and look around for migrating shorebirds (now in early fall). You will pass several sad farms and now there a few “protected” medical cannabis farms too, and the area is under surveillance.
https://ebird.org/hotspots?hs=L1276465&yr=all&m= The other road that is private but birders use is Indiana rd that is good for migrating hawks in Fall.
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 Avoid to enter the crop fields when you see workers and stay on the main dirt roads.
The other place to go is Pine Island Turf Nursery. I suggest NOT to visit that farm during the week since they are working and preparing the fields for winter. I generally go there ONLY during the weekends, when the place is more quiet.
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 Good luck!
Felipe
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...> wrote:
A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane,41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at 41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris andTransport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY
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Observers enjoyed another solid day of Caprimulgid viewing with 155 nighthawks being tallied. Many birds at medium to low elevations; two more tailless birds were observed.
Relating to this taillessness, the BNA account for this species suggests the bird undergoes its definitive basic molt, which is a complete molt, on its wintering grounds. This would indicate no molting during migration; thus our observations of several tailless birds suggests some other reason for the loss of all the tail feathers, such as attempted predation, or that the account is wrong, at least as it relates to the remiges.
Anyone with more information or has thoughts about the tailless birds we're seeing can reach me off-line at <redknot...> mailto:<redknot...>
Date: 9/23/19 5:43 pm From: Gus Keri <guskeri...> Subject: Re: LINKS - Re: [nysbirds-l] News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
Thank you Christopher for the links.
I agree that the curve on your link is compressed horizontally but it shows the same pattern I described before. Even the curve of each specific habitat is showing this pattern.
Look at (fig 1, A and B) on page 12 from the full study and you will see that each habitat has the U shaped curve (or reversed bell shape). The Boreal Forest's curve, for example, becomes completely flat in the last few years.
Birds numbers' decline should be more severe in the last couple of decades when the enveronmental changes are more severe. On the contrary, the decline recently becomes less steeped than in the early stages of the study when the conditions were more favorable.
It would be interesting to know why this paradox is happening.
I am suggesting the presence of other factors that play role here. For example, birds might have some ability to adjust to adverse conditions in order to survive and thrive. Finidng the answer could provide help in the fight to save wildlife.
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> Hi Shai and Gus,
> Here’s a link to the 2019 State of the Birds: https://www.stateofthebirds.org/2019/download-pdf-report/ > At the above link, the front page shows a graph depicting the actual data from 1970 to present. The x-axis is compressed relative to the one appearing in Living Bird and the online graphic (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone), so the curve in the State of the Birds report appears to have a sharper decline; although, there was a minor increase about a decade ago, which helped level out the line. Also of note, the y-axis depicts thepopulation change (in billions of birds) by way of negative values.
> The full Science article is below, although, I’m not certain if those outside of a university setting will have full access:
> https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/09/18/science.aaw1313 > Hope these links are helpful.
> Sincerely,Chris T-H
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> On Sep 22, 2019, at 1:12 PM, Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> wrote:
> Hi Gus,
>
> I really think it's just an artifact of the way the figure was made, and not something with a complicated biological explanation. To me it looks like a simple function that illustrates the entire estimated decline from 10 to 7, as though the current population size was the end point. In other words, the graphic looks like the exponential loss of 3 billion birds, starting with all of the 3 billion birds that used to exist, to the zero of those birds that remain today.
>
> Shai
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>
> Hi Shaibal,
>
> I took into consideration the possibility of exponential decline but it didn't look like that.
> If you calculate the decline in relation to the absolute number of birds at the beginning of each decade, the difference is more remarkable.
> Here is the percentage of decline for each decade alone:
> By the end of the 70s: 12%
> By the end of the 80s: 9%
> By the end of the 90s: 7%
> BY the end if the 2000s: 4%
> By now: 1-2%
>
> I don't know if birds are finding a way to adjust with all the environmental changes that are taking place, or there are other factors involved.
>
>
>
>
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> ---- On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:01:35 -0400 Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> wrote ----
> Hi Gus and all,
>
> The curve in the link has the shape characteristic of exponential decline at a constant rate. It has the properties you describe, with the amount of absolute loss diminishing in the recent years, because the population itself is getting smaller all the time. I suspect that this graphic is not to be taken literally but instead is a simple, fitted function meant to express the overall rate of loss that was estimated over these decades.
>
> Best,
> Shai
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> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:57 PM
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>
> https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/ >
> The shape of the curve on the graphic in the above article is very intriguing to me. It starts with a steep decline in the first couple of decades and plateaued toward the last few years.
> The curve suggests that more than 75% of birds losses happened in the first 25 years (betwween 1970 and 1995) and less than 25% of the losses took place in the last 25 years(from 1995 to present).
> The fact that habitat loss, climate changes and other adverse environmental changes are worse in the last 25 years compared to the previous period suggests other factors are at play to slow down the decline of the total population.
> Does anyone have any explanation for this contradiction?
>
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> ---- On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:18:43 -0400 Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote ----
> The unformatted PDF version of the study is now openly linked on Cornell Lab's website here:https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DECLINE-OF-NORTH-AMERICAN-AVIFAUNA-SCIENCE-2019.pdfand also linked from accompanying Living Birds article here:https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/
>
> Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org
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>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:29 PM Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote:
> Further on this topic: someone just passed along a PDF of full text of the study.
> Reply off list, if a copy would be of interest.
> Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org
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Date: 9/23/19 2:45 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Sept. 23, 2019: 10 Species of Wood Warblers, Influx of Y-b cukoos & Brown Thrashers
Central Park NYC Monday September 23, 2019 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob.
Highlights: 10 Species of Wood Warblers, Influx of Yellow-billed Cukoos & Brown Thrashers.
Canada Goose - a dozen on the Lake Wood Duck - male on the Lake with Mallards Mallard - 36 Mourning Dove - 5 Shakespeare Garden Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 6 to 10 Chimney Swift - 11 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Lake Herring Gull - 3 flyovers Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flyover Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 10 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 7 Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - 2 Upper Lobe House Wren - 2 (Strawberry Fields, Shakespeare Garden) Carolina Wren - 1 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 (Shakespeare Garden, Ramble) Veery - 1 Tupelo Field Swainson's Thrush - 1 Tupelo Field American Robin - usual numbers Gray Catbird - 20 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Tupelo Field Brown Thrasher - 18 House Finch - 4 Baltimore Oriole - adult male Tupelo Field Common Grackle - 10 Ovenbird - Shakespeare Garden Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Oven, Wagner Cove) Black-and-white Warbler - 6 Common Yellowthroat - 4 American Redstart - around 20 Northern Parula - around 15 Magnolia Warbler - 5 Blackpoll Warbler - 3 Shakespeare Garden Pine Warbler - 1 Shakespeare Garden Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Oven (Cheechman) Northern Cardinal - 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 at the Oven
Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC
Please note: that birding the farm formally known as the Warren Sod Farm (now known as the Sunflower Valley Farm) hasbeen *RESTRICTED* since last year and is not accessible to birders. I have had conversations with the owner and he wanted me to pass along this information.To my knowledge there hasn't been any updates since then.
Felipe and Bob: Warren Sod Farm/Sunflower Valley Farm is the farm that the entrance is on Rt 12 between the silos. This road leads to the "bridge: that Bob mentioned. The other side of the bridge is Skinner's Lane. This is private property and the farmer has stated that it is off-limits to birders. They allow access by invitation only.
Pine Turf Nursery: Please stop and ask for permission at the office first. The farmer have stated that they do not want cars on their road after a heavy rain.Please keep this in mind.
Skinner's Lane: Still open, but occasionally a worker will harass birders. THIS IS NOT A THROUGH ROAD. Please trun around before the bridge,as the farm across from the Skinner's Lane farm is the farm that is restricted to birders. Please exit through the same entrance you entered off Pulasky Highway.
Please be birding ambassadors in the Black Dirt. Many Black Dirt farmers are seeing their requests disregarded.
Linda
Date: 9/23/19 1:05 pm From: sophiesaid <sophiesaid...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
Please note: that birding the farm formally known as the Warren Sod Farm (now known as the Sunflower Valley Farm) hasbeen *RESTRICTED* since last year and is not accessible to birders. I have had conversations with the owner and he wanted me to pass along this information.To my knowledge there hasn't been any updates since then.
Felipe and Bob: Warren Sod Farm/Sunflower Valley Farm is the farm that the entrance is on Rt 12 between the silos. This road leads to the "bridge: that Bob mentioned. The other side of the bridge is Skinner's Lane. This is private property and the farmer has stated that it is off-limits to birders. They allow access by invitation only.
Pine Turf Nursery: Please stop and ask for permission at the office first. The farmer have stated that they do not want cars on their road after a heavy rain.Please keep this in mind.
Skinner's Lane: Still open, but occasionally a worker will harass birders. THIS IS NOT A THROUGH ROAD. Please trun around before the bridge,as the farm across from the Skinner's Lane farm is the farm that is restricted to birders. Please exit through the same entrance you entered off Pulasky Highway.
Please be birding ambassadors in the Black Dirt. Many Black Dirt farmers are seeing their requests disregarded.
Linda
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Sent: Mon, Sep 23, 2019 3:22 pm
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
One should never enter the fields on Indiana Road. The last time I was there there were birders from a number of states trampling all of the fields, much to the dismay (right fully so) of the local farmers. So much so that there was talk of putting up a locked entrance gate.
Peter Post
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On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:18 PM, Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> wrote:
There a several private roads but you can enter through Skinner’s lane and drive in the direction of Route 12 and look around for migrating shorebirds (now in early fall). You will pass several sad farms and now there a few “protected” medical cannabis farms too, and the area is under surveillance.
https://ebird.org/hotspots?hs=L1276465&yr=all&m= The other road that is private but birders use is Indiana rd that is good for migrating hawks in Fall.
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 Avoid to enter the crop fields when you see workers and stay on the main dirt roads.
The other place to go is Pine Island Turf Nursery. I suggest NOT to visit that farm during the week since they are working and preparing the fields for winter. I generally go there ONLY during the weekends, when the place is more quiet.
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 Good luck!
Felipe
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...> wrote:
A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane,41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at 41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris andTransport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY
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Date: 9/23/19 12:52 pm From: ArieGilbert <ArieGilbert...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
Trespassing is *against the law*. Adults should know this. Birders or photographers are *not* exempt.
See the following document on proper behavior. Sheesh, does it really need to be posted? Apparently and sadly yes. Yes it does.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxxY2JpcmRjbHVifGd4OjcyZDE1Nzk1MDNjZWM3Yzc It will not take a lot for the selfish and inconsiderate to ruin it for the rest of us. Dont be one of them!
Arie GilbertNorth Babylon Queens County Bird Club inc.
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-------- Original message --------From: Peter <pwpost...> Date: 9/23/19 3:22 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> Cc: Robert Lewis <rfermat...>, nys birds <NYSbirds-L...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
One should never enter the fields on Indiana Road. The last time I was there there were birders from a number of states trampling all of the fields, much to the dismay (right fully so) of the local farmers. So much so that there was talk of putting up a locked entrance gate.
Peter Post
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On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:18 PM, Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> wrote:
There a several private roads but you can enter through Skinner’s lane and drive in the direction of Route 12 and look around for migrating shorebirds (now in early fall). You will pass several sad farms and now there a few “protected” medical cannabis farms
too, and the area is under surveillance.
Avoid to enter the crop fields when you see workers and stay on the main dirt roads.
The other place to go is Pine Island Turf Nursery. I suggest NOT to visit that farm during the week since they are working and preparing the fields for winter. I generally go there ONLY during the weekends, when the place is more quiet.
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...> wrote:
A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be
on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane,
41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent
gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at
41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris and
Transport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
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Date: 9/23/19 12:22 pm From: Peter <pwpost...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
One should never enter the fields on Indiana Road. The last time I was there there were birders from a number of states trampling all of the fields, much to the dismay (right fully so) of the local farmers. So much so that there was talk of putting up a locked entrance gate.
Peter Post
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:18 PM, Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> wrote:
>
> There a several private roads but you can enter through Skinner’s lane and drive in the direction of Route 12 and look around for migrating shorebirds (now in early fall). You will pass several sad farms and now there a few “protected” medical cannabis farms too, and the area is under surveillance.
>
> https://ebird.org/hotspots?hs=L1276465&yr=all&m= >
> The other road that is private but birders use is Indiana rd that is good for migrating hawks in Fall.
>
> https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 >
> Avoid to enter the crop fields when you see workers and stay on the main dirt roads.
>
> The other place to go is Pine Island Turf Nursery. I suggest NOT to visit that farm during the week since they are working and preparing the fields for winter. I generally go there ONLY during the weekends, when the place is more quiet.
>
> https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1041928 >
> Good luck!
>
> Felipe
>
>
>> On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...> wrote:
>>
>> A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
>>
>> I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
>>
>> Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane, 41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at 41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris and Transport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
>>
>> As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
>>
>>
>> Bob Lewis
>> Sleepy Hollow NY
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Greetings: This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 16, 2019
Highlights:
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GLOSSY IBIS
CACKLING GOOSE
SANDHILL CRANE
STILT SANDPIPER
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
SEDGE WREN
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
LINCOLN’S SPARROW
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)
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Shorebirds seen at the complex this week.
SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
KILLDEER
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
PECTORAL SANDPIPER
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
WILSON’S SNIPW
GREATER YELLOWLEGS
LESSER YELLOWLEGS
LEAST SANDPIPER
SOLITARY SANDPIPER
SPOTTED SANDPIPER
SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER
STILT SANDPIPER
The GLOSSY IBIS found last week at Knox-Marsellus has continued to be present throughout the week.
9/18: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO and a CAPE MAY WARBLER were seen on VanDyne Spoor road
9/19: 8 species of Shorebirds including BAIRD’S SANDPIPER and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER were seen at the Visitor’s Center.
9/20: A CACKLING GOOSE was seen at the Visitor’s Center.
9/23: A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen and photographed in the bushes at Tschache Pool.
Cayuga County
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YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and at least three RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were reported from West Barrier Beach Park and the State Park grounds at Fair Haven this week.
Onondaga County
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9/17: A n OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was again found at Raddison River Park (private) north of Baldwinsville and was seen through the 21st.
9/18: A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was found at Raddison River Park.
9/19: A COMMON NIGHTHAWK was seen at Barry Park in Syracuse.
9/21: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW was seen at Raddison River Park. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and 2 CAPE MAY WARBLERS were seen on the Onondaga Creek Creek Walk north of Hiawathe Blvd. in Syracuse. 6 Warbler species and 6 PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were seen at Labrador Hollow Unique Area. A CAPE MAY WARBLER was seen in Manlius.
Oswego County
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9/19: A SEDGE WREN was found at Sandy Island State Park on Lake Ontario along with a PHILADELPHIA VIREO and a CAPE MAY WARBLER.
9/20: The SEDGE WREN was refound at Sandy Island along with 3 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS.
9/22: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen on Hinman Road north of Port Ontario.
9/23: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW was seen on Hinman Road.
Madison County
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9/20: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO and 2 LINCOLN’S SPARROWS were seen at the Tuscarora nature Area west of Erieville. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at Woodman Pond north of Hamilton.
9/22: A LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was seen at the Madison Street Impoundment north of Hamilton. A SANDHILL CRANE was found at the Sky High Sod Farm north of Chittenango.
Oneida County
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9/16: 8 species of Warblers including CAPE MAY were seen at the Spring Farm Nature Sanctuary south of Clinton.
9/17: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was seen in Waterville.
9/19: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen at Spring Farm Nature Sanctuary.
9/21: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at the Sparin Farn Nature Sanctuary.
Herkimer County
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9/20: An early WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was seen at a feeder north of Dolgeville.
Date: 9/23/19 11:18 am From: Felipe Pimentel <fpimente...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
There a several private roads but you can enter through Skinner’s lane and drive in the direction of Route 12 and look around for migrating shorebirds (now in early fall). You will pass several sad farms and now there a few “protected” medical cannabis farms too, and the area is under surveillance.
Avoid to enter the crop fields when you see workers and stay on the main dirt roads.
The other place to go is Pine Island Turf Nursery. I suggest NOT to visit that farm during the week since they are working and preparing the fields for winter. I generally go there ONLY during the weekends, when the place is more quiet.
On Sep 23, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...><mailto:<rfermat...>> wrote:
A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane, 41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at 41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris and Transport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
Date: 9/23/19 11:07 am From: Robert Lewis <rfermat...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Birding the Black Dirt Region, Orange County
A few weeks ago I asked here for directions about where to actually go in the Black Dirt region. One can find many references to birding there online, and there are some ebird spots, but there are many dirt or gravel roads and many seem to be on private property, and many are obviously not driveable once you see them. So what is an out-of-the-area birder supposed to do?
I thank Felipe Pimentel who provided directions to the Pine Island Turf farm.
Yesterday I went exploring. The attached map is the result. Enter the area at Skinner Lane, 41.320541, -74.435339. My route is the narrow black line. I went up Skinner Lane to the northwest until it meets Iris Road, which is called Celery Avenue on my Iphone map app. Then I turned left and follow Iris a long time. It is all an excellent gravel road. I was surprised to see a bridge over the Wallkill River at 41.325083, -74.466914. It is certainly driveable. The maps are wrong in that there is no connection between Iris and Transport at 41.300798, -74.472080.
As for birds, there were very few. But in a few months -- let's hope.
Date: 9/23/19 7:51 am From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <cth4...> Subject: LINKS - Re: [nysbirds-l] News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
At the above link, the front page shows a graph depicting the actual data from 1970 to present. The x-axis is compressed relative to the one appearing in Living Bird and the online graphic (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone), so the curve in the State of the Birds report appears to have a sharper decline; although, there was a minor increase about a decade ago, which helped level out the line. Also of note, the y-axis depicts the population change (in billions of birds) by way of negative values.
The full Science article is below, although, I’m not certain if those outside of a university setting will have full access:
I really think it's just an artifact of the way the figure was made, and not something with a complicated biological explanation. To me it looks like a simple function that illustrates the entire estimated decline from 10 to 7, as though the current population size was the end point. In other words, the graphic looks like the exponential loss of 3 billion birds, starting with all of the 3 billion birds that used to exist, to the zero of those birds that remain today.
Shai
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From: Gus Keri [<guskeri...><mailto:<guskeri...>]
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2019 12:35 PM
To: Shaibal Mitra
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Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
Hi Shaibal,
I took into consideration the possibility of exponential decline but it didn't look like that.
If you calculate the decline in relation to the absolute number of birds at the beginning of each decade, the difference is more remarkable.
Here is the percentage of decline for each decade alone:
By the end of the 70s: 12%
By the end of the 80s: 9%
By the end of the 90s: 7%
BY the end if the 2000s: 4%
By now: 1-2%
I don't know if birds are finding a way to adjust with all the environmental changes that are taking place, or there are other factors involved.
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---- On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:01:35 -0400 Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...><mailto:<Shaibal.Mitra...>> wrote ----
Hi Gus and all,
The curve in the link has the shape characteristic of exponential decline at a constant rate. It has the properties you describe, with the amount of absolute loss diminishing in the recent years, because the population itself is getting smaller all the time. I suspect that this graphic is not to be taken literally but instead is a simple, fitted function meant to express the overall rate of loss that was estimated over these decades.
Best,
Shai
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Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
The shape of the curve on the graphic in the above article is very intriguing to me. It starts with a steep decline in the first couple of decades and plateaued toward the last few years.
The curve suggests that more than 75% of birds losses happened in the first 25 years (betwween 1970 and 1995) and less than 25% of the losses took place in the last 25 years(from 1995 to present).
The fact that habitat loss, climate changes and other adverse environmental changes are worse in the last 25 years compared to the previous period suggests other factors are at play to slow down the decline of the total population.
Does anyone have any explanation for this contradiction?
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---- On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:18:43 -0400 Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote ----
The unformatted PDF version of the study is now openly linked on Cornell Lab's website here:https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DECLINE-OF-NORTH-AMERICAN-AVIFAUNA-SCIENCE-2019.pdfand also linked from accompanying Living Birds article here:https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/
Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:29 PM Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote:
Further on this topic: someone just passed along a PDF of full text of the study.
Reply off list, if a copy would be of interest.
Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org
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Date: 9/22/19 10:12 am From: Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
Hi Gus,
I really think it's just an artifact of the way the figure was made, and not something with a complicated biological explanation. To me it looks like a simple function that illustrates the entire estimated decline from 10 to 7, as though the current population size was the end point. In other words, the graphic looks like the exponential loss of 3 billion birds, starting with all of the 3 billion birds that used to exist, to the zero of those birds that remain today.
Shai
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Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
Hi Shaibal,
I took into consideration the possibility of exponential decline but it didn't look like that.
If you calculate the decline in relation to the absolute number of birds at the beginning of each decade, the difference is more remarkable.
Here is the percentage of decline for each decade alone:
By the end of the 70s: 12%
By the end of the 80s: 9%
By the end of the 90s: 7%
BY the end if the 2000s: 4%
By now: 1-2%
I don't know if birds are finding a way to adjust with all the environmental changes that are taking place, or there are other factors involved.
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---- On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:01:35 -0400 Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> wrote ----
> Hi Gus and all,
>
> The curve in the link has the shape characteristic of exponential decline at a constant rate. It has the properties you describe, with the amount of absolute loss diminishing in the recent years, because the population itself is getting smaller all the time. I suspect that this graphic is not to be taken literally but instead is a simple, fitted function meant to express the overall rate of loss that was estimated over these decades.
>
> Best,
> Shai
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>
> https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/ >
> The shape of the curve on the graphic in the above article is very intriguing to me. It starts with a steep decline in the first couple of decades and plateaued toward the last few years.
> The curve suggests that more than 75% of birds losses happened in the first 25 years (betwween 1970 and 1995) and less than 25% of the losses took place in the last 25 years(from 1995 to present).
> The fact that habitat loss, climate changes and other adverse environmental changes are worse in the last 25 years compared to the previous period suggests other factors are at play to slow down the decline of the total population.
> Does anyone have any explanation for this contradiction?
>
> Sent using Zoho Mail
>
>
> ---- On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:18:43 -0400 Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote ----
> > The unformatted PDF version of the study is now openly linked on Cornell Lab's website here:https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DECLINE-OF-NORTH-AMERICAN-AVIFAUNA-SCIENCE-2019.pdfand also linked from accompanying Living Birds article here:https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/
> >
> > Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org
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Date: 9/22/19 9:36 am From: Gus Keri <guskeri...> Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
Hi Shaibal,
I took into consideration the possibility of exponential decline but it didn't look like that. If you calculate the decline in relation to the absolute number of birds at the beginning of each decade, the difference is more remarkable. Here is the percentage of decline for each decade alone: By the end of the 70s: 12% By the end of the 80s: 9% By the end of the 90s: 7% BY the end if the 2000s: 4% By now: 1-2%
I don't know if birds are finding a way to adjust with all the environmental changes that are taking place, or there are other factors involved.
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---- On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:01:35 -0400 Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> wrote ---- > Hi Gus and all, > > The curve in the link has the shape characteristic of exponential decline at a constant rate. It has the properties you describe, with the amount of absolute loss diminishing in the recent years, because the population itself is getting smaller all the time. I suspect that this graphic is not to be taken literally but instead is a simple, fitted function meant to express the overall rate of loss that was estimated over these decades. > > Best, > Shai > ________________________________________ > From: <bounce-123944861-3714944...> [<bounce-123944861-3714944...>] on behalf of Gus Keri [<guskeri...>] > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:57 PM > To: Anne Swaim > Cc: NYSBIRDS-L-for posts posts; Birding alert, ebirdsNYC, Birding alert > Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats. > > https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/ > > The shape of the curve on the graphic in the above article is very intriguing to me. It starts with a steep decline in the first couple of decades and plateaued toward the last few years. > The curve suggests that more than 75% of birds losses happened in the first 25 years (betwween 1970 and 1995) and less than 25% of the losses took place in the last 25 years(from 1995 to present). > The fact that habitat loss, climate changes and other adverse environmental changes are worse in the last 25 years compared to the previous period suggests other factors are at play to slow down the decline of the total population. > Does anyone have any explanation for this contradiction? > > Sent using Zoho Mail > > > ---- On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:18:43 -0400 Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote ---- > > The unformatted PDF version of the study is now openly linked on Cornell Lab's website here:https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DECLINE-OF-NORTH-AMERICAN-AVIFAUNA-SCIENCE-2019.pdfand also linked from accompanying Living Birds article here:https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/ > > > > Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:29 PM Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote: > > Further on this topic: someone just passed along a PDF of full text of the study. > > Reply off list, if a copy would be of interest. > > Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org > > > > > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- > > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/<nysbirds-l...>/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/<nysbirds-l...>/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > >
Date: 9/22/19 9:02 am From: Shaibal Mitra <Shaibal.Mitra...> Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
Hi Gus and all,
The curve in the link has the shape characteristic of exponential decline at a constant rate. It has the properties you describe, with the amount of absolute loss diminishing in the recent years, because the population itself is getting smaller all the time. I suspect that this graphic is not to be taken literally but instead is a simple, fitted function meant to express the overall rate of loss that was estimated over these decades.
Best,
Shai
________________________________________
From: <bounce-123944861-3714944...> [<bounce-123944861-3714944...>] on behalf of Gus Keri [<guskeri...>]
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:57 PM
To: Anne Swaim
Cc: NYSBIRDS-L-for posts posts; Birding alert, ebirdsNYC, Birding alert
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats.
The shape of the curve on the graphic in the above article is very intriguing to me. It starts with a steep decline in the first couple of decades and plateaued toward the last few years.
The curve suggests that more than 75% of birds losses happened in the first 25 years (betwween 1970 and 1995) and less than 25% of the losses took place in the last 25 years(from 1995 to present).
The fact that habitat loss, climate changes and other adverse environmental changes are worse in the last 25 years compared to the previous period suggests other factors are at play to slow down the decline of the total population.
Does anyone have any explanation for this contradiction?
Sent using Zoho Mail
---- On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:18:43 -0400 Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote ----
> The unformatted PDF version of the study is now openly linked on Cornell Lab's website here:https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DECLINE-OF-NORTH-AMERICAN-AVIFAUNA-SCIENCE-2019.pdfand also linked from accompanying Living Birds article here:https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/
>
> Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:29 PM Anne Swaim <anneswaim...> wrote:
> Further on this topic: someone just passed along a PDF of full text of the study.
> Reply off list, if a copy would be of interest.
> Anne SwaimSaw Mill River Audubonwww.sawmillriveraudubon.org
>
>
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Date: 9/22/19 6:12 am From: zach schwartz-weinstein <zachsw...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western kingbird, Voorheesville
A western Kingbird found yesterday afternoon by Frank Mitchell at Black
creek marsh in voorheesville, NY (Albany’s county) on the tracks west of
Hennessy Road is continuing this morning, relocated by Jeremy Collison.
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There is a lot of radar activities (green color) in NYC and the Tristate area this early morning (2 to 4 am) suggestive of a lot of birds landing. Today looks to be a good birding day. Good luck.
