Patricia Lindsay heard a waterthrush calling at Southards Pond this morning but never saw the bird. The date would be exceptionally early for a migrant Northern (tying the record-early date cited by the late Stephen Eaton in his species account in Bull's Birds of NYS); it would be in line for Louisiana, but the latter is quite uncommon in Suffolk County. Thus I decided to make an effort to pin it down. It took a while, but I eventually obtained definitive views of a Northern Waterthrush.
eBird checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S35757724 This is almost certainly the same individual recorded at Southards by Pete Morris on two dates in February: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34308665 --establishing a remarkable first NYS record of overwinter survival by this Neotropical migrant species. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
