[nysbirds-l] Vesper Sparrows Dutchess County
5 Vesper Sparrows in Dover Plains 2:30 today. Berkshire Rd, about .25 mile from Lime Kiln Rd. Carena Pooth -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Vesper Sparrows Dutchess County
5 Vesper Sparrows in Dover Plains 2:30 today. Berkshire Rd, about .25 mile from Lime Kiln Rd. Carena Pooth -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Croton Bay Arrivals & other Croton Point sightings
Raft of 80+ Ruddy Ducks seen in Croton Bay this blustery late October morning on a gray and choppy Hudson River, along with small groups of Bufflehead and Lesser Scaup and bonus of three White-winged Scoters. Ospreys (4 seen today) continuing around Croton Point and three different pursuits by 1st/2nd yr Bald Eagles observed with Osprey surrendering fish each time. Total of four different 1st/2nd yr Bald Eagles seen plus one adult. One Northern Harrier, total of 41 American Pipits, and two Vesper Sparrows seen on Croton Point landfill grasslands. Eastern Meadowlark seen early in am feeding on ballfield by entrance. Uptick today in other bird activity on Croton Point as well (eBird list below) but no re-sighting of yesterday's Nelson's Sparrow. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32226120 -- Anne Swaim Saw Mill River Audubon -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Croton Bay Arrivals & other Croton Point sightings
Raft of 80+ Ruddy Ducks seen in Croton Bay this blustery late October morning on a gray and choppy Hudson River, along with small groups of Bufflehead and Lesser Scaup and bonus of three White-winged Scoters. Ospreys (4 seen today) continuing around Croton Point and three different pursuits by 1st/2nd yr Bald Eagles observed with Osprey surrendering fish each time. Total of four different 1st/2nd yr Bald Eagles seen plus one adult. One Northern Harrier, total of 41 American Pipits, and two Vesper Sparrows seen on Croton Point landfill grasslands. Eastern Meadowlark seen early in am feeding on ballfield by entrance. Uptick today in other bird activity on Croton Point as well (eBird list below) but no re-sighting of yesterday's Nelson's Sparrow. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32226120 -- Anne Swaim Saw Mill River Audubon -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret @ Fort Tidlen Queens Co...
While trying to get in on a pretty much non existent migration flight at Fort Tilden, I stumbled upon a Cattle Egret loafing on the soccer/rugby fields. This one showed even less breeding plumes on its head than Rob Jett's Floyd Bennett Field bird and looked more like John Young's bird from Van Cortlandt Park. Today's CAEG (Cattle Egret) makes it 3 seen for the month of October and 4 in total for the year for me, having seen one on the East Pond earlier in the year. With Peter Dorosh's report of another CAEG documented by Gus Keri at Bush Terminal Pier Park in Brooklyn. We could have at the moment 3-4 CAEG in play (not sure if the Bronx bird is still being seen). I wonder how many more we are missing that are out there in our area. Cheers, "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu The Art of War > (__/) > (= '.'=) > (") _ (") > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret @ Fort Tidlen Queens Co...
While trying to get in on a pretty much non existent migration flight at Fort Tilden, I stumbled upon a Cattle Egret loafing on the soccer/rugby fields. This one showed even less breeding plumes on its head than Rob Jett's Floyd Bennett Field bird and looked more like John Young's bird from Van Cortlandt Park. Today's CAEG (Cattle Egret) makes it 3 seen for the month of October and 4 in total for the year for me, having seen one on the East Pond earlier in the year. With Peter Dorosh's report of another CAEG documented by Gus Keri at Bush Terminal Pier Park in Brooklyn. We could have at the moment 3-4 CAEG in play (not sure if the Bronx bird is still being seen). I wonder how many more we are missing that are out there in our area. Cheers, "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu The Art of War > (__/) > (= '.'=) > (") _ (") > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Vesper Sparrow Jones beach
In median west of large deciduous trees.also several purple finches Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Vesper Sparrow Jones beach
In median west of large deciduous trees.also several purple finches Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Large Numbers of Laughing Gulls Rockaway Inlet, Brooklyn/Queens
At dawn this morning there was a spectacular fly-out of Laughing Gulls at Plum Beach, Kings, with hundreds of birds streaming east to west along the entire width of Rockaway Inlet, joined by hundreds more arriving from the the creeks to the north. By the time I left, the flight had stopped, but Laughing Gulls were visible in numbers everywhere I could see, along all shorelines and feeding in flocks all over the inlet. My overall estimate is 3,000 birds. I was also surprised to count 88 Royal Terns, with 73 resting on a bar at Plum at one time, plus 15 scattered around the inlet. I had to leave before satisfying myself that no Franklin's Gull was present, and also before the passerine morning flight got going. Highlights of the last were 23 American Pipits. Shai Mitra Bay Shore, NY -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Large Numbers of Laughing Gulls Rockaway Inlet, Brooklyn/Queens
At dawn this morning there was a spectacular fly-out of Laughing Gulls at Plum Beach, Kings, with hundreds of birds streaming east to west along the entire width of Rockaway Inlet, joined by hundreds more arriving from the the creeks to the north. By the time I left, the flight had stopped, but Laughing Gulls were visible in numbers everywhere I could see, along all shorelines and feeding in flocks all over the inlet. My overall estimate is 3,000 birds. I was also surprised to count 88 Royal Terns, with 73 resting on a bar at Plum at one time, plus 15 scattered around the inlet. I had to leave before satisfying myself that no Franklin's Gull was present, and also before the passerine morning flight got going. Highlights of the last were 23 American Pipits. Shai Mitra Bay Shore, NY -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret Floyd Bennett Field Continues
Derek Rogers, Adam Starke & I relocated Cattle Egret in the Beach grass nursery, Ranger Rd, 8 am in field with flock of Canada Geese Mike Scheibel Brookhaven Sent from my iPhone -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret Floyd Bennett Field Continues
Derek Rogers, Adam Starke & I relocated Cattle Egret in the Beach grass nursery, Ranger Rd, 8 am in field with flock of Canada Geese Mike Scheibel Brookhaven Sent from my iPhone -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 10/24
Extralimitally, A Gray Kingbird that's been present at Hyannisport, Massachusetts was seen again on Monday 10/24; a Sprague's Pipit seen on Sunday 10/23 at Westport, Connecticut was not re-found the next day - that pipit was found near the shores of Long Island Sound, and was viewed & documented by many observers; both birds have been well- reported on their respective state birding list-serves. Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Monday, 24 October, 2016 - Among the dozen Warbler species present Monday in Central Park was an Orange-crowned Warbler at the Great Hill in the park's north end, as well as a White-eyed Vireo in the same location, both photographed by Lynne Hertzog. Some of the other warbler species present have been in the south-most part of the park as well as in many scattered locations therein, some species may be represented by just single individuals, yet there are also a few species still in modest -if scattered- numbers. Chrysanthemums ('mums') in the Conservatory Garden -especially, even with others in other areas- of Central Park are starting to peak, with lush color- and a 'must'-see are many of the trees in the park as they attain autumn colors; a great "sour gum" (Tupelo) tree in the heart of the Ramble among those to seek out in coming days and weeks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), U.S. wildlife biologist, conservationist, professor, author, best known for his book "A Sand County Almanac" (1949), which has sold more than two million copies. Good cold-front birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 10/24
Extralimitally, A Gray Kingbird that's been present at Hyannisport, Massachusetts was seen again on Monday 10/24; a Sprague's Pipit seen on Sunday 10/23 at Westport, Connecticut was not re-found the next day - that pipit was found near the shores of Long Island Sound, and was viewed & documented by many observers; both birds have been well- reported on their respective state birding list-serves. Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Monday, 24 October, 2016 - Among the dozen Warbler species present Monday in Central Park was an Orange-crowned Warbler at the Great Hill in the park's north end, as well as a White-eyed Vireo in the same location, both photographed by Lynne Hertzog. Some of the other warbler species present have been in the south-most part of the park as well as in many scattered locations therein, some species may be represented by just single individuals, yet there are also a few species still in modest -if scattered- numbers. Chrysanthemums ('mums') in the Conservatory Garden -especially, even with others in other areas- of Central Park are starting to peak, with lush color- and a 'must'-see are many of the trees in the park as they attain autumn colors; a great "sour gum" (Tupelo) tree in the heart of the Ramble among those to seek out in coming days and weeks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), U.S. wildlife biologist, conservationist, professor, author, best known for his book "A Sand County Almanac" (1949), which has sold more than two million copies. Good cold-front birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --