[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 9/17

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Fiore

Thursday, 17 September, 2009 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

Birding was rather good, despite the 'raw' weather for mid-September:  
wind chill hasn't factored in for recent years here, as it may have in  
the old days, when "cold fronts" really were cold by September...   
today may have seen a bit less diversity, while volume of a few  
species picked up, & most noticeable were the increase in or arrival  
of some "later" fall migrants.  The sparrows are now beginning to make  
a real showing, with a Vesper seemingly a bit early for this  
location.  Of the warblers, 2 different Yellow-breasted Chats, one at  
the wildflower meadow, & another at Strawberry Fields & vicinity were  
the most notable & at least 16 additional species of warblers included  
Tennessee, Cape May, more Palm warblers, & others.  Winter Wren, Ruby- 
crownned Kinglet, & at least 6 species of sparrows including the  
Vesper on the knoll (north of the NE part of the N. Meadow  
ballfields), Lincoln's, Swamp, & Chipping, with expected White- 
throateds increasing plus resident Song, were among the new and/or  
very recent arrivals.  I didn't watch for hawks much & noticed only a  
few Osprey going over, but there could have been some other migrating  
raptors.  There were also a fair number of hummingbirds, all presumed  
Ruby-throated but not all definitely ID'd as some zipped by, while  
others stayed & visited the many flowers still blooming. In some  
places that held some migrants on Wednesday there were fewer today and  
overall, diversity seemed to have dropped off slightly overnight. A  
smattering of icterids were moving, too.


Good birding,

Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 17 Sep 2009

2009-09-17 Thread dfsuggs


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* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/17/2009
* NYBU0909.17
- Birds mentioned
  -
 Please phone in rare sightings for update
 Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
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 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER
 WILLET
 CLAY-COL. SPARROW
 SNOW GOOSE
 SANDHILL CRANE
 Osprey
 Bald Eagle
 Black-bellied Plover
 Semipalmated Plover
 Killdeer
 Greater Yellowlegs
 Lesser Yellowlegs
 Spotted Sandpiper
 Ruddy Turnstone
 Red Knot
 Sanderling
 Semipalm. Sandpiper
 Least Sandpiper
 White-r. Sandpiper
 Baird's Sandpiper
 Pectoral Sandpiper
 Caspian Tern
 Forster's Tern
 Common Nighthawk
 Yellow-b. Flycatcher
 Ruby-cr. Kinglet
 Veery
 Gray-cheeked Thrush
 Swainson's Thrush
 Brown Thrasher
 Tennessee Warbler
 Nashville Warbler
 Northern Parula
 Chestnut-s. Warbler
 Magnolia Warbler
 Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
 Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
 Palm Warbler
 Bay-breasted Warbler
 American Redstart
 Northern Waterthrush
 Common Yellowthroat
 Wilson's Warbler
 Rose-br. Grosbeak
 Chipping Sparrow
 White-thr. Sparrow

- Transcript
 Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
 Date: 09/17/2009
 Number:   716-896-1271
 To Report:Same
 Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
 Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
 Website:  www.BOSBirding.org

 Thursday, September 17, 2009

 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of  Science 
and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to  leave a message, 
(3) for updates, meeting and field trip  information and (4) for 
instructions on how to report  sightings. To contact the Science 
Museum, call 896-5200.


 Highlights of reports received September 10 through  September 17 
from the Niagara Frontier Region include BUFF-

 BR. SANDPIPER, WILLET, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, SNOW GEESE and  SANDHILL CRANE.

 Sixteen shorebird species on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario  this 
week were highlighted by a BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, September  10, at Rock 
Point Park in Dunnville, and a WILLET at  Windmill Point in Fort Erie. 
September 13, RED KNOT and  WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Windmill Point, and 3 
BAIRD'S  SANDPIPERS at Point Abino. Other shorebirds in Ontario this  
week, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER,  GREATER 
YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER,  RUDDY TURNSTONE, 
SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST  SANDPIPER and PECTORAL 
SANDPIPER.


 September 11, in a Williamsville yard in Amherst, a very  rare 
CLAY-COL. SPARROW among a flock of 15 CHIPPING  SPARROWS. Also reported 
in at this location - OSPREY,  YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, GRAY-CHEEKED 
THRUSH, SWAINSON'S  THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, 11 warbler species, 
WHITE-THR.  SPARROW and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK.


 In Buffalo, September 17, an early flock of 7 SNOW GEESE  over 
Lafayette Avenue. And September 10 in North Tonawanda,  a SANDHILL 
CRANE over Deerwood Golf Course on Sweeney  Street.


 September 13, the BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in  Buffalo 
reported 11 warbler species plus YELLOW-B.  FLYCATCHER and RUBY-CR. 
KINGLET.


 Other reports - Night migrants heard over the Town of  Tonawanda 
between midnight and 2 AM this week totaled 75  VEERYS, 73 SWAINSON'S 
THRUSHES and 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES.  At Dunkirk Harbor, 2 FORSTER'S 
TERNS, seven shorebird  species including BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 7 CASPIAN 
TERNS and 6  BALD EAGLES. And, small numbers of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over  
Tonawanda and Williamsville.Dial-a-Bird 
will be updated Thursday evening, September 24.  Please call in your 
sightings by noon Thursday. You may  report sightings after the tone. 
Thank you for calling and  reporting to Dial-a-Bird.


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[nysbirds-l] Lark Sparrow follow-up

2009-09-17 Thread Rob Jett
Just a quick follow-up for the Lark Sparrow at Floyd Bennett Field.  
After the clouds cleared I went back hoping to digi-bin some photos.  
At 3:45pm, I relocated the bird in virtually the same spot. It was  
feeding at the base of the berm along the edge of the pavement. This  
is at the parking area one uses when going to the Return-a-Gift Pond  
or North Forty. I have a map on my blog here:


http://tinyurl.com/n43tos

Or if you just want to check out a couple of fairly decent photos  
(Doug G. taught me everything I know about digi-binning):


http://tinyurl.com/mtbtwk

http://tinyurl.com/kwfk5j

Good birding,

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[nysbirds-l] Riis Park and Jamaica Bay, 17 Sep

2009-09-17 Thread Sy Schiff
Joe Guinta and I (Sy Schiff) found a Clay-colored Sparrow along the fence at 
the west side of the golf course at Riis Park this morning. The sky was 
overcast and there was a brisk wind which kept the birds down. Except for the 
sparrow, not much of a birding morning.

We came home via Jamaica Bay starting at the West Pond. On the bayside at bench 
#3, a Tricolored Heron was feeding along the shore. We did a quick stop at the 
south end of the East Pond where a single American Avocet was resting along the 
east edge It flew north as we came out onto the flat.

There are large numbers of Blue-winged Teal on both ponds and an early female 
Greater Scaup on the West Pond.

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[nysbirds-l] Lark Sparrow /Floyd Bennett/Brooklyn

2009-09-17 Thread Shane Blodgett
Rob Jett found a Lark Sparrow  along the south edge of the North Forty at Floyd 
Bennett. It was in a rainwater pool at the end of the north/south main 
road/runway. This is near the pools that have attracted shorebirds over the 
past couple of summers. 

  It subsequently flew into some mugwort along the berm that seperates the 
cricket field from the aforementioned runway. With Rob's help I was able to 
quickly find the bird in the weedy field just behind the berm. This was 
~1:30-2:00 p.m. today.

Shane B.
Brooklyn NY

 


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[nysbirds-l] Linnaean Society Meeting Announcement

2009-09-17 Thread Alice Deutsch
THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Auditorium
Speaker: Kimberly Bostwick, Curator of Birds and Mammals at Cornell  
University Museum of Vertebrates and Research Associate, Department of  
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Subject: Cloud Forest Virtuosos: Discovering the Amazing Wing- 
Instruments of Club-winged Manakins
 We often have the sense that all the major biological  
discoveries have been made long ago.  In this talk, Bostwick  
encourages the audience to discover for themselves the solution to a  
mystery that puzzled even Darwin, and has only been worked out in  
recent years.  That is, some animals exhibit exceptions to the rule of  
"survival of the fittest" and conform more to the idea of "survival of  
the sexiest".  Male Club-winged Manakins, an Andean cloud-forest bird,  
is one of these exceptions; it has a unique, specialized, and very  
costly method of courting females, that will be revealed and explored  
in detail.
 Kimberly Bostwick received her Ph.D. from the University  
of Kansas. She has authored numerous papers on bird ecology and  
evolution. She most recently appeared in the first episode of PBS’s  
Nature series entitled Deep Jungle.
 The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please  
join us for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum  
at West 77th Street. If you would like to meet Dr. Bostwick prior to  
the talk, join us at Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and  
Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The reservation will be in the name of Alice.
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[nysbirds-l] (northern N.J.) N. Wheatear continues, 9/17

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Fiore

Thursday, 17 September, 2009 - New Jersey N. Wheatear :

http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1253197859

Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] good migration in NYC, 9/16

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Fiore

Wednesday, 16 September, 2009

The addition of Hooded Warbler to the list of species seen in Central  
Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) pushed the warbler 'tally' to at least 25  
species on the day there, as well as having both of our cuckoo  
species reported.  A look at some reports from Prospect Park's  
(Brooklyn, NYC) birders shows a minimum of 22 warbler species  
including Hooded there on Wednesday, along with many of the other  
migrants noted in Central on the day. The other urban migration "hot- 
spots" probably fared well also.


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Manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] good migration in NYC, 9/16

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Fiore

Wednesday, 16 September, 2009

The addition of Hooded Warbler to the list of species seen in Central  
Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) pushed the warbler 'tally' to at least 25  
species on the day there, as well as having both of our cuckoo  
species reported.  A look at some reports from Prospect Park's  
(Brooklyn, NYC) birders shows a minimum of 22 warbler species  
including Hooded there on Wednesday, along with many of the other  
migrants noted in Central on the day. The other urban migration hot- 
spots probably fared well also.


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Manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Linnaean Society Meeting Announcement

2009-09-17 Thread Alice Deutsch
THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Auditorium
Speaker: Kimberly Bostwick, Curator of Birds and Mammals at Cornell  
University Museum of Vertebrates and Research Associate, Department of  
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Subject: Cloud Forest Virtuosos: Discovering the Amazing Wing- 
Instruments of Club-winged Manakins
 We often have the sense that all the major biological  
discoveries have been made long ago.  In this talk, Bostwick  
encourages the audience to discover for themselves the solution to a  
mystery that puzzled even Darwin, and has only been worked out in  
recent years.  That is, some animals exhibit exceptions to the rule of  
survival of the fittest and conform more to the idea of survival of  
the sexiest.  Male Club-winged Manakins, an Andean cloud-forest bird,  
is one of these exceptions; it has a unique, specialized, and very  
costly method of courting females, that will be revealed and explored  
in detail.
 Kimberly Bostwick received her Ph.D. from the University  
of Kansas. She has authored numerous papers on bird ecology and  
evolution. She most recently appeared in the first episode of PBS’s  
Nature series entitled Deep Jungle.
 The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please  
join us for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum  
at West 77th Street. If you would like to meet Dr. Bostwick prior to  
the talk, join us at Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and  
Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The reservation will be in the name of Alice.
Alice Deutsch, Vice President
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[nysbirds-l] Lark Sparrow /Floyd Bennett/Brooklyn

2009-09-17 Thread Shane Blodgett
Rob Jett found a Lark Sparrow  along the south edge of the North Forty at Floyd 
Bennett. It was in a rainwater pool at the end of the north/south main 
road/runway. This is near the pools that have attracted shorebirds over the 
past couple of summers. 

  It subsequently flew into some mugwort along the berm that seperates the 
cricket field from the aforementioned runway. With Rob's help I was able to 
quickly find the bird in the weedy field just behind the berm. This was 
~1:30-2:00 p.m. today.

Shane B.
Brooklyn NY

 


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[nysbirds-l] Riis Park and Jamaica Bay, 17 Sep

2009-09-17 Thread Sy Schiff
Joe Guinta and I (Sy Schiff) found a Clay-colored Sparrow along the fence at 
the west side of the golf course at Riis Park this morning. The sky was 
overcast and there was a brisk wind which kept the birds down. Except for the 
sparrow, not much of a birding morning.

We came home via Jamaica Bay starting at the West Pond. On the bayside at bench 
#3, a Tricolored Heron was feeding along the shore. We did a quick stop at the 
south end of the East Pond where a single American Avocet was resting along the 
east edge It flew north as we came out onto the flat.

There are large numbers of Blue-winged Teal on both ponds and an early female 
Greater Scaup on the West Pond.

Sy

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[nysbirds-l] Lark Sparrow follow-up

2009-09-17 Thread Rob Jett
Just a quick follow-up for the Lark Sparrow at Floyd Bennett Field.  
After the clouds cleared I went back hoping to digi-bin some photos.  
At 3:45pm, I relocated the bird in virtually the same spot. It was  
feeding at the base of the berm along the edge of the pavement. This  
is at the parking area one uses when going to the Return-a-Gift Pond  
or North Forty. I have a map on my blog here:


http://tinyurl.com/n43tos

Or if you just want to check out a couple of fairly decent photos  
(Doug G. taught me everything I know about digi-binning):


http://tinyurl.com/mtbtwk

http://tinyurl.com/kwfk5j

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Rob

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[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 17 Sep 2009

2009-09-17 Thread dfsuggs


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* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/17/2009
* NYBU0909.17
- Birds mentioned
  -
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 Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
 Thank you, David
 -

 BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER
 WILLET
 CLAY-COL. SPARROW
 SNOW GOOSE
 SANDHILL CRANE
 Osprey
 Bald Eagle
 Black-bellied Plover
 Semipalmated Plover
 Killdeer
 Greater Yellowlegs
 Lesser Yellowlegs
 Spotted Sandpiper
 Ruddy Turnstone
 Red Knot
 Sanderling
 Semipalm. Sandpiper
 Least Sandpiper
 White-r. Sandpiper
 Baird's Sandpiper
 Pectoral Sandpiper
 Caspian Tern
 Forster's Tern
 Common Nighthawk
 Yellow-b. Flycatcher
 Ruby-cr. Kinglet
 Veery
 Gray-cheeked Thrush
 Swainson's Thrush
 Brown Thrasher
 Tennessee Warbler
 Nashville Warbler
 Northern Parula
 Chestnut-s. Warbler
 Magnolia Warbler
 Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
 Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
 Palm Warbler
 Bay-breasted Warbler
 American Redstart
 Northern Waterthrush
 Common Yellowthroat
 Wilson's Warbler
 Rose-br. Grosbeak
 Chipping Sparrow
 White-thr. Sparrow

- Transcript
 Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
 Date: 09/17/2009
 Number:   716-896-1271
 To Report:Same
 Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
 Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
 Website:  www.BOSBirding.org

 Thursday, September 17, 2009

 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of  Science 
and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to  leave a message, 
(3) for updates, meeting and field trip  information and (4) for 
instructions on how to report  sightings. To contact the Science 
Museum, call 896-5200.


 Highlights of reports received September 10 through  September 17 
from the Niagara Frontier Region include BUFF-

 BR. SANDPIPER, WILLET, CLAY-COL. SPARROW, SNOW GEESE and  SANDHILL CRANE.

 Sixteen shorebird species on the Lake Erie shore in Ontario  this 
week were highlighted by a BUFF-BR. SANDPIPER, September  10, at Rock 
Point Park in Dunnville, and a WILLET at  Windmill Point in Fort Erie. 
September 13, RED KNOT and  WHITE-R. SANDPIPER at Windmill Point, and 3 
BAIRD'S  SANDPIPERS at Point Abino. Other shorebirds in Ontario this  
week, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER,  GREATER 
YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER,  RUDDY TURNSTONE, 
SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST  SANDPIPER and PECTORAL 
SANDPIPER.


 September 11, in a Williamsville yard in Amherst, a very  rare 
CLAY-COL. SPARROW among a flock of 15 CHIPPING  SPARROWS. Also reported 
in at this location - OSPREY,  YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER, GRAY-CHEEKED 
THRUSH, SWAINSON'S  THRUSH, BROWN THRASHER, 11 warbler species, 
WHITE-THR.  SPARROW and ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK.


 In Buffalo, September 17, an early flock of 7 SNOW GEESE  over 
Lafayette Avenue. And September 10 in North Tonawanda,  a SANDHILL 
CRANE over Deerwood Golf Course on Sweeney  Street.


 September 13, the BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in  Buffalo 
reported 11 warbler species plus YELLOW-B.  FLYCATCHER and RUBY-CR. 
KINGLET.


 Other reports - Night migrants heard over the Town of  Tonawanda 
between midnight and 2 AM this week totaled 75  VEERYS, 73 SWAINSON'S 
THRUSHES and 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES.  At Dunkirk Harbor, 2 FORSTER'S 
TERNS, seven shorebird  species including BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 7 CASPIAN 
TERNS and 6  BALD EAGLES. And, small numbers of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over  
Tonawanda and Williamsville.Dial-a-Bird 
will be updated Thursday evening, September 24.  Please call in your 
sightings by noon Thursday. You may  report sightings after the tone. 
Thank you for calling and  reporting to Dial-a-Bird.


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[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 9/17

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Fiore

Thursday, 17 September, 2009 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

Birding was rather good, despite the 'raw' weather for mid-September:  
wind chill hasn't factored in for recent years here, as it may have in  
the old days, when cold fronts really were cold by September...   
today may have seen a bit less diversity, while volume of a few  
species picked up,  most noticeable were the increase in or arrival  
of some later fall migrants.  The sparrows are now beginning to make  
a real showing, with a Vesper seemingly a bit early for this  
location.  Of the warblers, 2 different Yellow-breasted Chats, one at  
the wildflower meadow,  another at Strawberry Fields  vicinity were  
the most notable  at least 16 additional species of warblers included  
Tennessee, Cape May, more Palm warblers,  others.  Winter Wren, Ruby- 
crownned Kinglet,  at least 6 species of sparrows including the  
Vesper on the knoll (north of the NE part of the N. Meadow  
ballfields), Lincoln's, Swamp,  Chipping, with expected White- 
throateds increasing plus resident Song, were among the new and/or  
very recent arrivals.  I didn't watch for hawks much  noticed only a  
few Osprey going over, but there could have been some other migrating  
raptors.  There were also a fair number of hummingbirds, all presumed  
Ruby-throated but not all definitely ID'd as some zipped by, while  
others stayed  visited the many flowers still blooming. In some  
places that held some migrants on Wednesday there were fewer today and  
overall, diversity seemed to have dropped off slightly overnight. A  
smattering of icterids were moving, too.


Good birding,

Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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