[nysbirds-l] Possible new addition to the NY list
Hempstead Lake State Park, April 1 Two Lesser Pterodactyls were observed flying overhead this afternoon. While the ID is not in doubt, experts have been consulted to get the latest definitive scoop on whether these flyers are Reptiles or Dinosaurs. If they agree on the latter (flying dinosaurs are definitely classified as BIRDS), the record will be submitted to NYSARC for addition to the NYS List. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 01 Apr 2010
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/01/2010 * NYBU1004.01 - Birds mentioned - Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David - BARNACLE GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE GREATER YELLOWLEGS Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Snow Goose Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Red-br. Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Great Horned Owl Eastern Phoebe Brown Creeper Winter Wren Fox Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/01/2010 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, April 1, 2010 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 March 25 through April 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BARNACLE GOOSE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and GREATER YELLOWLEGS. March 27, on the BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, a BARNACLE GOOSE at Johnson Creek Road and Hartland-Somerset Townline. Most likely the same individual that was at the Iroquois Refuge last week, about 10 miles to the south. Also on the field trip, hundreds of RED-NECKED GREBES on Lake Ontario with HORNED GREBE and RED-THROATED LOON, plus GREATER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, COMMON GOLDENEYE and abundant RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Waterfowl in the fields included AMERICAN WIGEON, RING-NECKED DUCK, NORTHERN PINTAIL and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. On the Niagara-Orleans Countyline at Route 18, 2 SNOW GEESE, CACKLING GOOSE and L. BLACK-B. GULL. Also migrant hawks throughout the day - NORTHERN HARRIER, SHARP-SH. HAWK, COOPER'S HAWK, RED- SHOULDERED HAWK, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, AMERICAN KESTREL and PEREGRINE FALCON. March 30 in Niagara County, a GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE on Dickersonville Road south of Youngstown-Wilson Road in the Town of Porter. An escaped RUDDY SHELDUCK has been reported several times at this location. Also, multiple reports of a CANADA GOOSE with a white body and black neck at Ring-neck and Schoolhouse Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. In the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, March 28, first report of GREATER YELLOWLEGS, in the marsh at Griswold Road and Route 77. Also 50 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. March 29, 10 GREAT EGRETS, a high count of March, at the heronry on Motor Island in the upper Niagara River. Also the 29th, OSPREY on the utility pole nest off Ditch Road, near the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. Arriving this week in the Town of Wilson - EASTERN PHOEBE, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN and 2 FOX SPARROWS. Before sunset on March 25 in the Town of Amherst, 88 low flying TURKEY VULTURES, apparently searching for a night roost, at Main Street and Eggert Road. Other reports this week - From Cattaraugus County, EASTERN MEADOWLARK amid the snow patches in the Town of Hinsdale, and BALD EAGLE and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on Swamp Road in Randolph. On the lower Niagara River at Lewiston, LITTLE GULL among the LONG-TAILED DUCKS. And, on Grand Island, GREAT HORNED OWL at the BOS Sanctuary on Love Road. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 8. 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. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Sunken Meadow SP- Early White-eyed Vireo, Suffolk County
I took advantage of this gorgeous day and went over to Sunken Meadow State Park(Suffolk County) this morning. I birded from 8:00am-12:00pm on the Inner Marsh trail, down near the Golf Course, to the backwaters of Sunken Meadow Creek. The best bird seen was a very early White-eyed Vireo in the expansive thickets about three quarters of a mile down the trail. He was actively foraging in and out of the thickets. Waterfowl were quite plentiful today with 15 species recorded, the best being a drake Canvasback, 2 Lesser Scaup, 7 Northern Shovelers, 27 Green-winged Teal, 12 Wood ducks, 9 Hooded Mergansers, and 11 Common Mergansers(still lingering). The full bird list from today is below. Great Blue Heron- 8 Great Egret- 1 Mute Swan Canada Goose Wood duck- 12 Green-winged Teal- 27 American Black ducks Mallards Northern Shoveler-7 Gadwall American Wigeon- 2 Canvasback- single drake on Sunken Meadow Creek Lesser Scaup- 2 Ring-necked Duck- 20 Bufflehead- 8 Hooded Merganser- 9 Common Merganser- 11 Osprey- 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk- 1 Red-tailed Hawk- 1 Killdeer-1 American Coot- 2 Great-horned Owl- 1 Belted Kingfisher 5 species of Woodpecker including a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe- 3 Tree Swallows- 24+ Fish Crows White-eyed Vireo- 1 very early bird Yellow-rumped warblers Golden-crowned Kinglets Gray Catbird- 1 Eastern Towhee- 3 Song, White-throated, and Swamp sparrows Vinny Pellegrino www.flickr.com/pellegrinov East Northport, NY "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." -Henry David Thoreau -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Hudson-Mohawk Birdline for 31 March
This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending March 31, 2010 Report your sightings in New York's Hudson-Mohawk Region to birdl...@hmbc.net. Sixty species were reported this week. The most interesting were: GREAT EGRET: Collins Lake 3/27. VARIED THRUSH*: Wilton/Gansevoort 3/26, 3/31. PINE WARBLER: Spencertown 3/27. RUSTY BLACKBIRD: Vischer Ferry 3/25 (3); Schodack Island SP 3/27 (8). PINE SISKIN: Galway 3/30 (2). EVENING GROSBEAK: Gansevoort 3/27. Other highlights: Mute Swan: 4-mile Point 3/29 (2). Gadwall: Ferry Road 3/25 (2); 4-mile Point 3/29 (4). American Wigeon: 4-mile Point 3/29 (6). Blue-Winged Teal: Vischer Ferry 3/25. Northern Shoveler: Vischer Ferry 3/25. Northern Pintail: Vischer Ferry 3/25 (2). Bufflehead: Vischer Ferry 3/25 (2); Chatham 3/25 (2); Nassau Lake 3/31 (6). Ruddy Duck: Collins Lake 3/27. Pied-billed Grebe: Vischer Ferry 3/25. Osprey: Athens 3/25. Bald Eagle: Vroman's Nose 3/28; Mill Kill SP 3/28 (3). Peregrine Falcon: Vroman's Nose 3/28; Rip Van Winkle Bridge 3/29. American Woodcock: Claverack 3/29 (several). Eastern Phoebe: Vischer Ferry 3/25; Schodack Island SP 3/27; 4-mile Point 3/29 (2). Tree Swallow: Vischer Ferry 3/25; New Salem 3/25 (4); Brunswick 3/27 (7). Carolina Wren: Ferry Road 3/25; Burnt Hills 3/30. Eastern Towhee: Livingston 3/28. Purple Finch: Burnt Hills 3/30; East Greenbush 3/30 (2). * location details and photo posted on HMBirds. Thanks to Phil Whitney (compiler), Dave Baim (New Salem), Karen Browne (Schodack Island SP), Larry Federman (Athens), Deb Ferguson (Delmar), Alan French (Glenville), Elisabeth Grace (Chatham), Don Gresens (Collins Lake), Rich Guthrie (4-mile Point), Roberta Hynes (Wilton/Gansevoort), Nancy Kern (Spencertown), Bill Lee (Vischer Ferry, Ferry Road), Roger Miller (Galway), Frank Palmer (Burnt Hills), Barb Putnam (Gansevoort), Bob Ramonowski (Schenectady), Brad Walker (Brunswick), Tom Williams (Vromans Nose, Mill Kill SP), and Chad Witko (Claverack, Livingston, RVW Bridge). -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
