Hello Rich, When I used to drive Long Island often in a big rig all thru 2011, I reported seeing 1 Common Raven usually at the southern end but twice on the northern end of the Tappen Zee bridge. Once at the sign announcing White Plains Westchester county. :) Once I saw it flying with a large piece of bread in it's bill, also. Dan Furbish peterbilt.bir...@yahoo.com ------------
On Mar 15, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Richard Guthrie <gael...@capital.net> wrote: > At noon, on Tuesday, March 13, I watched a C. Raven fly up from a downtown > parking lot in White Plains, Westchester County. That was unusual in itself, > but in addition, the bird was carrying a big bit of food (looked like a bagel > or roll) as if flew off. I watched it continue on as it disappeared around > one of the skyscrapers, food in beak. > > > > In atlasing parlance, that would be “CO-FY”, meaning that the species is > confirmed as breeding in that area. However, as ravens, and other corvids, > are prone to caching chow, I’d hesitate to jump to that conclusion just yet. > He/she may also be bringing some take-out back to its mate. Either way, it > does present an interesting possibility that, with the continuing expansion > of this species’ distribution in NYS, bears monitoring. > > > > I might add that there are plenty of both American and Fish Crows in downtown > White Plains – a three crow city. > > > > Rich Guthrie > > New Baltimore, > > The Greene County, > > New York > > gael...@capital.net > > http://blogs.timesunion.com/birding > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
