Despite some decent search efforts by several birders, including myself, the shrike was not relocated. I stopped searching somewhere around 3:30 PM.
The word is that the bird took flight heading west and was last seen near Field 7. Search parties canvassed scrub areas near Fields 6,7 & 8 but unfortunately came out shrikeless. Hopefully the bird turns up again. Best, Derek Rogers Sayville Begin forwarded message: > From: Shaibal Mitra <[email protected]> > Date: October 27, 2012, 5:24:17 PM EDT > To: nysbirds-l <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Northern Shrike at Heckscher S.P. > Reply-To: Shaibal Mitra <[email protected]> > > The bird was found by Joan Quinlan around 11:00. It fed actively on crickets > in the moorland between field 8 and the model airplane field for two hours, > then got up and flew east to the area between fields 7 and 8. It was hunting > in this area when we left it. > > Some record shots are posted at the end of this album: > > https://picasaweb.google.com/109808209543611018404/LongIsland2012# > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Anthony Collerton > [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:40 PM > To: nysbirds-l > Subject: [nysbirds-l] Northern Shrike at Heckscher S.P. > > I'm sure others will post details soon but there's also a Northern Shrike in > the area of the model airplane field at Heckscher. > > > Washington Monthly magazine ranks the College of Staten Island as one of > “America’s Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges” > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
