I've had the good luck to spot the Yellow-headed blackbird twice and both times it was associating with cowbirds, first time with a few female CB's, second time with a small mixed group of CB's and red-wings, also mostly female. Both times in the west Tern colony at Nickerson near the edge of the pond. Jennifer Wilson Pines
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 4:58 PM Timothy Healy <tp...@cornell.edu> wrote: > I spent several hours at Nickerson Beach today, searching for the long > continuing but infrequently encountered Yellow-headed Blackbird that was > reported again yesterday evening. There were tons of starlings and cowbirds > moving around the area, but they were tricky to pin down. Reviewing my > photos from the day, I was able to confirm that a briefly seen candidate in > a distant passing flock was indeed the sought after vagrant. If you try for > it, patience and luck are going to be necessary. The flocks seem to move > throughout the entire area between Point Lookout and Lido Beach. For what > it’s worth, the Yellow-headed Blackbird was associating with a group of > cowbirds when I photographed it, rather than the massive hordes of > starlings that I spent much of my day sifting through. > > Cheers! > -Tim H > -- > > 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@cornell.edu/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/ > > -- > > -- Jennifer Wilson-Pines -- 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@cornell.edu/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/ --
