RE: [nysbirds-l] John Bulls list of spring ariival dates

[mike]

Below is a list of typical spring arrival dates mostly lifted from Birds of the 
New York Area by Bull(1964)- one of my favorite books. A few things here may be 
slightly outdated, but overall it's still surprisingly accurate.  

 

Late Feb (Feb 21-28)- Canada Goose, Red-wing, Common Grackle

 

Early March (March 1-10)- Pied-billed Grebe, Wood Duck, Killdeer, Woodcock, 
Robin, Eastern Bluebird, Rusty Blackbird, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow

 

Mid March (11-20)- Gannet, Blk-cr Night Heron, Snow Goose, Turkey Vulture, 
Piping Plover, Wilson's Snipe, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, Flicker, 
Phoebe, Fish Crow, Water Pipit, Meadowlark, Cowbird

 

Late March (21-31) DC Cormorant, Osprey, Greater Yellowlegs, Laughing Gull, 
Tree Swallow, G-Cr Kinglet, Savannah Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Field Sparrow

 

Early April (1-10) Great Bl Heron, Great Egret, Bittern, Bl winged Teal, 
Broad-winged Hawk, Merlin, Pectoral Sandpiper, Sapsucker, Creeper, Hermit 
Thrush, Ruby-cr Kinglet, Pine Warbler, "Yellow" Palm Warbler, Towhee, Chipping 
Sparrow, White-throat, Swamp Sparrow

 

Mid April- Snowy Egret, Green Heron, Yellow-cr Night Heron, Clapper Rail, 
Virginia Rail, Sora, Upland Sandpiper, Rough-winged Swallow, Barn Swallow, 
Purple Martin, Gnatcatcher, Yellow-rumped  Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush

 

Late April- Little Blue Heron, Common Moorhen, Semi Plover, Solitary Sandpiper, 
Least Sandpiper, Dunlin, Semi Sandpiper, Whip-poor-will, Chimney Swift, Bank 
Swallow, Cliff swallow, House Wren, Brown Thrasher, Blue-headed Vireo, Blk& 
White Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Parula, Yellow Warbler, 
Blk-thr Green Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Grasshopper Sparrow, Sharp-tailed 
Sparrow, Seaside Sparrow

 

Early May- Least Bittern, Ruddy Turnstone, Willet, Shrt-billed Dowitcher, 
Common Tern, Least Tern, R-thr Hummingbird, E. Kingbird, Grt-cr. Flycatcher, 
Least Flycatcher, Marsh Wren, Catbird, Wood Thrush, Veery, White-eyed Vireo, 
Yellow-thr Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Golden -w Warbler, Bl-w Warbler, Blk-thr Blue 
Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Ovenbird, N. Waterthrush, Yellowthroat, Hooded 
Warbler, Wm. Redstart, Bobolink, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet 
Tanager, Rose-br Grosbeak

 

Mid May- Knot, White-rumped Sandpiper, Roseate Tern, Black Skimmer, Yellow-b 
Cuckoo, Blk--b Cuckoo, Common Nighthawk, Wood Peewee, Swainson's Thrush, Gr- 
Cheeked Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed Vireo, Tennessee Warbler, Magnolia 
Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, 
Blackpoll, Yellow-br. Chat, Wilson's Warbler, Canada Warbler, Indigo Bunting, 
White-cr Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow

 

Late May- Sooty Shearwater, Wilson's Storm Petrel, Black Tern, Yellow-bellied 
Flycatcher, Alder/ Willow Flycatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Mourning Warbler, 
Nelson’s Sparrow  

 


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Re: [nysbirds-l] FOS American Oystercatcher Shinnecock

[Mike]

Today a FOS American Oystercatcher was east of the Ponquogue Bridge near 
Shinnecock, Suffolk Co. Although they overwinter regularly around Jones Inlet, 
I haven't seen one at this location since the fall. 

In Riverhead, a Red-necked Grebe was just west of the Roadhouse Pizza joint 
along the Peconic River. 

Mike Cooper
Ridge, LI NY  

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 14, 2015, at 11:29 AM, "editcon...@aol.com"  wrote:

> Sorry - meant to add this to the thread. 
> 
> NYBG has been frozen, as much of the NYC area. Our crabapples and any other 
> fruit/seed producing trees have been stripped bare with some strands left. If 
> the grosbeak over wintered at the zoo there would have been more available 
> food. 
> 
> In the last two weeks NYBG had a weak migration of grackles, red winged 
> blackbirds and rusty blackbirds. 
> 
> The earliest record I have of a grosbeak at NYBG is mid -April from 1998 
> which was a very warm winter and early spring. 
> 
> Debbie Becker
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 14, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Hugh McGuinness  wrote:
> 
> To further support the over-wintering hypothesis, we would predict that if 
> this were a migrant, there would currently be a spate of records along the 
> Gulf Coast. Checking e-bird, there are exactly two March 2015 records for the 
> species, with none in the Caribbean.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Joe DiCostanzo  wrote:
>> As Gabriel Willow and Tom Fiore have already pointed out, given the 
>> proximity of the New York Botanical Garden to the Bronx Zoo where a female 
>> Rose-breasted Grosbeak was reported on December 28 and February 17, this is 
>> far more likely to be that same individual than an early arrival from the 
>> species’ Neotropical wintering area. Though extremely rare in winter 
>> locally, the species is not unprecedented at that season. I found an 
>> immature male Rose-breasted in the southern part of the Botanical Garden, 
>> across the road from the Bronx Zoo on the CBC 32 years ago on December 26, 
>> 1982. In the species account in Bull’s Birds of New York State (1998), Bob 
>> McKinney reports : “… there are many CBC reports and many other records of 
>> individuals persisting for several weeks or longer with food available at 
>> feeders.” In his earlier Birds of New York State (1974), John Bull says the 
>> species has been recorded during the winter months, but that he wondered 
>> about the possibility of confusion with Black-headed Grosbeak. However, he 
>> does cite two mid-winter undoubted occurrences: 1) a bird at a feeder in 
>> Dunkirk, December 1965 to late January 1966, seen by many, and 2) a male 
>> filmed at a feeder in Poughkeepsie December 25, 1966 to January 12, 1967. In 
>> some neighboring states, Dick Veit and Wayne Peterson in Birds of 
>> Massachusetts (1993) record a handful of winter records and a few early 
>> March records [also likely to be over-wintering birds]; and Joan Walsh, et 
>> al. in Birds of New Jersey (1999) after reporting four CBC records state: 
>> “There are also a few mid-winter reports, mainly of birds appearing at 
>> feeders.”
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> While the above records show that the species has overwintered in the 
>> Northeast on rare occasions, it is truly remarkable that this individual 
>> apparently managed the feat in the at times brutally cold and snowy winter 
>> we have just gone through!
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Joe DiCostanzo
>> 
>> www.greatgullisland.org
>> 
>> www.inwoodbirder.blogspot.com
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> From: bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu 
>> [mailto:bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sharron 
>> Crocker
>> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 6:37 PM
>> To: Birds - nysbirds-l@cornell.edu
>> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I've been told that this is an early sighting.  New York Botanical Garden, 
>> Bronx, NY, Thursday 3/12/15 around 2:00 at the swamp (Mitsubishi Wetlands) 
>> ...
>> 
>> Sharron Crocker
>> 
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 3/14

[Thomas Fiore]

Saturday, 14 March, 2015
Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City)

In a drizzly lull in rain, a walk from one end of Central Park to the  
other (60th-110th Sts.) provided views of a few lingering or newly- 
arrived birds: a pair (hen & drake) of Red-breasted Mergansers at the  
C.P. reservoir, on the s. end of the open water; other ducks as prev.,  
along with at least 2 Amer. Coot, & several hundred gulls of what  
seemed to be just the 3 most-typical spp.;  the male Common Redpoll  
made a quick showing at the Ramble feeders before noon, & on the  
western-most part of the N. Meadow ballfields, a single Killdeer was  
in the vicinity of some Mallards out on the newly-revealed grass  
there. All the park's water-bodies are now showing more small cracks &  
openings - there were even a few ducks at the Meer. Also noticed  
during my walk were American Kestrel, Cooper's Hawk (Ramble) & calling  
Fish Crow (near the Meer), along with smatterings of Amer. Robins, Red- 
winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, & various wintering regulars.


good birding,

Tom Fiore
Manhattan

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[nysbirds-l] Additional observations of the overwintering Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Bronx NY

[Todd Olson]

I feel compelled to chime in with some additional information that vouches
for the overwintering survival of a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the
contiguous Bronx Park (Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden).  As noted
earlier, a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak was seen at the Bronx Zoo on the
December 28, 2014 Bronx/Westchester CBC.  I was among the birding party
covering the zoo that date.  We observers recognized the bird immediately,
but considering the very late date we paid close attention to be sure we
were not in fact looking at an extralimital female Black-headed Grosbeak.

On February 17th another observer posted their Bronx Zoo Rose-breasted
Grosbeak sighting to eBird with a documentary record photo (eBird
checklist S21945422).
 On February 20th, I observed the bird again at the zoo (eBird checklist
S21986073).  Curiously, neither the February 20th nor CBC sighting have yet
posted *publicly*  on eBird, presumably awaiting a reviewer's follow-up?
In any event, I am glad she has survived. No mean feat!

Todd Olson, Greater NYC

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[nysbirds-l] The New York Botanical Garden

[editcon...@aol.com]

A very rainy day at the Saturday morning bird walk produced all the usual birds 
and a female ROSE BREASTED GROSBEAK eating sunflower seeds someone had thrown 
down. 

Good Birding,
Debbie Becker
BirdingAroundNYC.com
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[nysbirds-l] Overwintering Bronx Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[Todd Olson]

As noted earlier, a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak was seen at the Bronx Zoo
for the 2014 Bronx/Westchester CBC.  I was among that birding party
covering the zoo.

On

February 17th another sighting of RBGR posted to eBird with a documentary
record shot.

 eBird checklist

S21945422

.

On February 20th, I saw the bird again at the zoo. eBird checklist here:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21986073

.  Neither that nor the 12/18/14 sighting from Bx/Wchester CBC has posted
*publicly* - presumably awaiting a reviewer's query.

Glad she's survived!

Todd Olson, Greater NYC

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

[Shaibal Mitra]

For the past several years I've focused my spring season reports in North 
American Birds on the curious spike in our Region of records of vagrants and 
half-hardies during March. This generally under-appreciated pattern is not only 
very well-documented but also, I argue, potentially a very significant 
indicator of how birds are responding to our changing environment.

The idea is that as temperatures increase and day length increases rapidly 
during March, birds that have over-wintered in favorable micro-environments 
(often involving feeders) begin to move around. Many of these birds were 
undetected or at least unreported through the winter, but their March movements 
increase the likelihood that they will cross paths with birders.

The basic pattern is very recognizable regardless of whether a particular 
winter survivor belongs to an extralimital species (like Rufous Hummingbird, 
Varied Thrush, Painted Bunting, or Black-headed Grosbeak) or a regularly 
occurring breeder/migrant that normally winters far to the south (like 
Orange-crowned Warbler, Northern Parula, or Rose-breasted Grosbeak): if people 
were aware of the bird through the winter, it abruptly disappears during March; 
at the same time, previously undetected birds begin to be reported as they roam 
around. The parallel between vagrant species and half-hardies implies that the 
two groups might be doing something similar--and that the "vagrants" might be 
doing more than being lost.

Anyway, regarding the following chestnut, I'd say that the accumulation of data 
strongly supports the over-wintering hypothesis.

From: Shaibal Mitra [mi...@mail.csi.cuny.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:37 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu
Subject: Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Bay Shore, Suffolk County

Pat Lindsay just called with news of a young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
singing at Gardiner County Park, which is essentially due north across Great 
South Bay from Fire Island Lighthouse. Her description rules out Black-headed 
Grosbeak, but the question of whether this bird wintered locally or just 
arrived from afar can probably only be settled if other Neotropical 
Cardinalids, tanagers, etc. show up coastally today or tomorrow.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore, NY


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Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

[editcon...@aol.com]

Sorry - meant to add this to the thread. 

NYBG has been frozen, as much of the NYC area. Our crabapples and any other 
fruit/seed producing trees have been stripped bare with some strands left. If 
the grosbeak over wintered at the zoo there would have been more available 
food. 

In the last two weeks NYBG had a weak migration of grackles, red winged 
blackbirds and rusty blackbirds. 

The earliest record I have of a grosbeak at NYBG is mid -April from 1998 which 
was a very warm winter and early spring. 

Debbie Becker





On Mar 14, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Hugh McGuinness  wrote:

To further support the over-wintering hypothesis, we would predict that if this 
were a migrant, there would currently be a spate of records along the Gulf 
Coast. Checking e-bird, there are exactly two March 2015 records for the 
species, with none in the Caribbean.

Hugh

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Joe DiCostanzo  wrote:
> As Gabriel Willow and Tom Fiore have already pointed out, given the proximity 
> of the New York Botanical Garden to the Bronx Zoo where a female 
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak was reported on December 28 and February 17, this is 
> far more likely to be that same individual than an early arrival from the 
> species’ Neotropical wintering area. Though extremely rare in winter locally, 
> the species is not unprecedented at that season. I found an immature male 
> Rose-breasted in the southern part of the Botanical Garden, across the road 
> from the Bronx Zoo on the CBC 32 years ago on December 26, 1982. In the 
> species account in Bull’s Birds of New York State (1998), Bob McKinney 
> reports : “… there are many CBC reports and many other records of individuals 
> persisting for several weeks or longer with food available at feeders.” In 
> his earlier Birds of New York State (1974), John Bull says the species has 
> been recorded during the winter months, but that he wondered about the 
> possibility of confusion with Black-headed Grosbeak. However, he does cite 
> two mid-winter undoubted occurrences: 1) a bird at a feeder in Dunkirk, 
> December 1965 to late January 1966, seen by many, and 2) a male filmed at a 
> feeder in Poughkeepsie December 25, 1966 to January 12, 1967. In some 
> neighboring states, Dick Veit and Wayne Peterson in Birds of Massachusetts 
> (1993) record a handful of winter records and a few early March records [also 
> likely to be over-wintering birds]; and Joan Walsh, et al. in Birds of New 
> Jersey (1999) after reporting four CBC records state: “There are also a few 
> mid-winter reports, mainly of birds appearing at feeders.”
> 
>  
> 
> While the above records show that the species has overwintered in the 
> Northeast on rare occasions, it is truly remarkable that this individual 
> apparently managed the feat in the at times brutally cold and snowy winter we 
> have just gone through!
> 
>  
> 
> Joe DiCostanzo
> 
> www.greatgullisland.org
> 
> www.inwoodbirder.blogspot.com
> 
>  
> 
> From: bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu 
> [mailto:bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sharron 
> Crocker
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 6:37 PM
> To: Birds - nysbirds-l@cornell.edu
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> I've been told that this is an early sighting.  New York Botanical Garden, 
> Bronx, NY, Thursday 3/12/15 around 2:00 at the swamp (Mitsubishi Wetlands) ...
> 
> Sharron Crocker
> 
> NYC
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[nysbirds-l] Grosbeak at NYBG

[editcon...@aol.com]

NYBG has been frozen, as much of the NYC area. Our crabapples and any other 
fruit/seed producing trees have been stripped bare with some strands left. If 
the grosbeak over wintered at the zoo there would have been more available 
food. 

In the last two weeks NYBG had a weak migration of grackles, red winged 
blackbirds and rusty blackbirds. 

The earliest record I have of a grosbeak at NYBG is mid -April from 1998 which 
was a very warm winter and early spring. 

Debbie Becker
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

[Hugh McGuinness]

To further support the over-wintering hypothesis, we would predict that if
this were a migrant, there would currently be a spate of records along the
Gulf Coast. Checking e-bird, there are exactly two March 2015 records for
the species, with none in the Caribbean.

Hugh

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Joe DiCostanzo  wrote:

> As Gabriel Willow and Tom Fiore have already pointed out, given the
> proximity of the New York Botanical Garden to the Bronx Zoo where a female
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak was reported on December 28 and February 17, this is
> far more likely to be that same individual than an early arrival from the
> species’ Neotropical wintering area. Though extremely rare in winter
> locally, the species is not unprecedented at that season. I found an
> immature male Rose-breasted in the southern part of the Botanical Garden,
> across the road from the Bronx Zoo on the CBC 32 years ago on December 26,
> 1982. In the species account in *Bull’s Birds of New York State* (1998),
> Bob McKinney reports : “… there are many CBC reports and many other records
> of individuals persisting for several weeks or longer with food available
> at feeders.” In his earlier *Birds of New York State* (1974), John Bull
> says the species has been recorded during the winter months, but that he
> wondered about the possibility of confusion with Black-headed Grosbeak.
> However, he does cite two mid-winter undoubted occurrences: 1) a bird at a
> feeder in Dunkirk, December 1965 to late January 1966, seen by many, and 2)
> a male filmed at a feeder in Poughkeepsie December 25, 1966 to January 12,
> 1967. In some neighboring states, Dick Veit and Wayne Peterson in Birds of
> Massachusetts (1993) record a handful of winter records and a few early
> March records [also likely to be over-wintering birds]; and Joan Walsh, et
> al. in *Birds of New Jersey* (1999) after reporting four CBC records
> state: “There are also a few mid-winter reports, mainly of birds appearing
> at feeders.”
>
>
>
> While the above records show that the species has overwintered in the
> Northeast on rare occasions, it is truly remarkable that this individual
> apparently managed the feat in the at times brutally cold and snowy winter
> we have just gone through!
>
>
>
> Joe DiCostanzo
>
> www.greatgullisland.org
>
> www.inwoodbirder.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> *From:* bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:
> bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *Sharron Crocker
> *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 6:37 PM
> *To:* Birds - nysbirds-l@cornell.edu
> *Subject:* [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak
>
>
>
>
> I've been told that this is an early sighting.  New York Botanical Garden,
> Bronx, NY, Thursday 3/12/15 around 2:00 at the swamp (Mitsubishi Wetlands)
> ...
>
> Sharron Crocker
>
> NYC
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[nysbirds-l] Mew Gull Brooklyn continues

[Shane Blodgett]

For those of you not on Facebook or eBird, the long staying Mew Gull (MEGU) 
along Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn is still around. Although I personally have not 
seen it since Feb. 17-despite many attempts-local Brooklyn birder Daniel 
Frazier has seen and photographed it at least 2x since then, including 
yesterday Friday March 14. 
Daniel walks the entire waterfront from the Verrazanno to Caesar's Bay shopping 
center and this seems to possibly be the best method for searching for the bird 
as he saw the bird a couple of weeks ago about .25 mile south of the 
Verrazzanno and Josh Malbin reported it even nearer to the bridge the same day.

Yesterday's reports (he saw it two different times) were in the more usual area 
between the Bensonhurst ballfields (which are just north of Caesar's Bay) and 
the pedestrian footbridge that is about .5 mile north of that.

I do think the bird will depart soon though as RBGU seem to be massing to move.

Thanks to Daniel for his coverage/reporting.

Best regards,
Shane Blodgett 
Brooklyn NY

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