10/24/15 Sabattis Circle Road, & Shaw Pond, Long Lake (Hamilton Co.)
Late morning, I drove Sabattis Circle Road, and stopped at Shaw Pond on my way home. Some of the species found: Wood Duck - Shaw Pond Amer. Black Duck - inlet of Round Lake Ring-necked Duck - over 60 on Shaw Pond Hooded Merganser - inlet of Round Lake Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe - Shaw Pond *Northern Shrike - inlet of Little Tupper Lake (first of the season) Gray Jay - 4 at Sabattis Bog; the birds are now divided into a solo jay and a group of 3. The group of 3 Gray Jays are very aggressive toward the solo bird. Blue Jay - still many around Common Raven Amer. Robin - still many around *American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Purple Finch Pine Siskin - large flock of ~ 40 to 50 birds at Sabattis Bog Amer. Goldfinch 10/19/15 Malone (Franklin Co.) I traveled to Rotary Lake in the Malone Memorial Recreation Park this past Monday. Thousands of Snow Geese feed in the area fields during the day and after sunset, they descend on Rotary Lake for the night. It is a remarkable annual spectacle that can be observed during Oct. and Nov. with numbers peaking by late October - early November (with prior year estimates of 4,000 Snow Geese completely covering the lake). I arrived in mid-afternoon to check the lake, and was surprised to find over 1,000 Snow Geese, and even more Canada Geese covering the lake! I photographed them for over an hour, and then they all headed east (likely to the nearby Salmon River). A couple hours later, just after sunset, wave after wave of geese flocks descended onto the lake for over 45 minutes. It is a visual and auditory experience that is hard to put into words. I posted a few photos to my Facebook page and there are more photos in my blog published on the Malone site: http://www.visitmalone.com/blog/2015/10/snow-geese-spectacle . (Photos include dark morph and intermediate birds also.) On the drive up, I observed Bufflehead, and Hooded and Common Mergansers along the causeway at Tupper Lake. I also observed 4 different Common Loons on lakes along the drive. 10/18/15 Long Lake We had an Eastern Phoebe in our backyard. Kathy Schneider reported a late Ruby-throated Hummingbird at her camp in Newcomb. She took her feeder down, and an hour later, spotted the hummingbird where the feeder had been! Joan Collins President, NYS Ornithological Association Editor, New York Birders Long Lake, NY (315) 244-7127 cell (518) 624-5528 home http://www.adirondackavianexpeditions.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AdirondackAvian -- 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/ --
