Re: [nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay shorebirds -
Not mentioned by John yesterday, but seen today was a Wilson's Phalarope, spending most of it's time (while I was there) just beyond the raunt. Also in this area were 2 Western Sandpipers. One Pectoral Sandpiper was at the south end, where the adult Long-billed Dowitcher remains a fixture (only a touch of color now remaining on this nearly basic plumage bird). Stilt and White-rumped Sandpipers were conspicuous in both areas. Does anyone remember a year with so many White-rumps? I'd put the number in the neighborhood of 20 today. A Philadelphia Vireo was in the cluster if trees just before Big John's Pond (now Big John's Meadow). Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * September 06, 2010 * NYSY 0609.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 30, 2009 - September 06, 2010 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison & Cortland compiled:September 06 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #220 -Monday September 06, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 30 , 2010 Highlights: --- LITTLE BLUE HERON BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON GLOSSY IBIS BLUE-WINGED TEAL SANDHILL CRANE MISSISSIPPI KITE MERLIN PEREGRINE FALCON AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER RUDDY TURNSTONE RED KNOT RUFF STILT SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER RED-NECKED PHALAROPE PARASITIC JAEGER POMERINE JAEGER LITTLE GULL COMMON NIGHTHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER PHILIDELPHIA VIREO Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 9/1: The GLOSSY IBIS was refound at May’s Point Pool and has been seen throughout the week. 9/4: A juvenile LITTLE BLUE HERON was see at the Visitor’s Center. It later flew and was not refound. At Knox-Marsellus Marsh the shorebirding remained excellent with 17 species found. 9/6: A juvenile RUFF, an extremely rare find for New York, was found this morning at Knox-Marsellus. Fortunately is stayed for the day and was still being observed at 4:00 this afternoon. Most of the weeks shorebirds were still present with RED KNOT being added to the mix. A PEREGRINE FALCON harassed the birds all day and was seen taking a shorebird and later a songbird along Towpath Road. Oswego County 8/30: 9 species of shorebird including 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES were seen at Sandy Pond. 9/03: A MISSISSIPPI KITE was seen at Derby Hill. 9/5: 1 POMERINE and 11 PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen flying from the bluff at Derby Hill. A LITTLE GULL was found also. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was found at Deer Creek WMA. At McCloud Road on the north shore of Oneida Lake 7 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS and a MERLIN were observed. 9/6: A large group of local and long distance migrants were found at Noye’s Sanctuary and the Sithe Energy Trails. 17 species of Warbler were found. Highlights were PHILADELPHIA VIREO, SWAINSON’S THRUSH, CAPE MAY WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, and BLACKPOLL WARBLER Madison County 9/02: 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS were seen at the turf farm north of Chittenango on Lakeport Road. 9/03: The region’s first BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was found at the turf farm along with 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS and 8 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS. 9/06: A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was seen at the turf farm after being absent since the 3rd. Onondaga County -- 9/02: 2 GREAT EGRETS and 1 RED-HEADED WOODPECKER were seen in the swamp on fenner Road west of Baldwinsville. 9/05: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. A juvenile BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen along the Seneca River on River Road just north of Rt. 31. A BLUE-WINGED TEAL and a GREAT EGRET were found at the south end of Jamesville Resevoir. 9/06: 6 species of shorebirds and a MERLIN were seen at the Nine Mile Creek inlet into Onondaga Lake near the State Fair. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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/ --
RE:[nysbirds-l] [cayugabirds-l] Ruff, knot, and more - Montezuma NWR
Cayguabirders - According to Linda Ziemba, Refuge biologist, the dike betwween Knox-Marsellus and Puddler's Marsh is a closed area. Please respect Refuge access rules. Thanks. Jane -Original Message- From: bounce-6258126-3493...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Jay McGowan Sent: Mon 9/6/2010 1:53 PM To: Cayugabirds-L; Nysbirds-l@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Ruff, knot, and more - Montezuma NWR The juvenile RUFF is still visible in Knox-Marsellus Marsh at Montezuma NWR, Seneca County, from the dike at Towpath Road, as well as a juvenile RED KNOT, two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, two Ruddy Turnstones, two Sanderlings, many Least, Semipalmated, Pectoral, Baird's, Stilt, and White-rumped sandpipers, Short-billed Dowitchers, both yellowlegs, 14 American Golden-Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, and Killdeer. Jay McGowan Ithaca, NY On Sep 6, 2010 11:16 AM, "Jay McGowan" wrote: Tim Lenz says he and others are watching a juvenile RUFF from Towpath Road. Jay McGowan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabird...@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- 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] Alley Pond Park, Queens
Many good birds at Alley Pond Park again this morning. Of note was Philadelphia Vireo, seen well one early in the morning and two around noon in the trees beyond the handball courts just east of the green canister. Other highlights seen by various observers include Blackburnian, Worm-eating, Tennessee, Bay-breasted and Canada Warblers, Mourning Warbler and Hooded Warbler. Jeff Ritter __ This e-mail transmission contains confidential information that is the property of the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any retention, disclosure, reproduction or distribution of the contents of this e-mail transmission, or the taking of any action in reliance thereon or pursuant thereto, is strictly prohibited. No warranty is given by NYSIF that this e-mail is free of viruses, interception or interference. NYSIF disclaims liability for any unauthorized opinion, representation, statement, offer or contract made by the sender on behalf of NYSIF. NYSIF's delegation of authorities, setting out who may make representations or contract on behalf of NYSIF, is available by contacting NYSIF at mail...@nysif.com. Jurisdiction for all actions arising out of dealings with NYSIF shall lie only in a court of competent jurisdiction of the State of New York -- 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] West End/Jones Beach This Morning (Nassau Co.)
I got a late start this morning, arriving at WE2 at 9:00AM. Bird activity was slow - two flyover Bobolinks, a few small groups of Baltimore Oriole's, and not much else. As the morning progressed, however, new birds were found, and it was clear that this was going to be low number, good variety day. Highlights were a Yellow-breasted Chat, found by Bob Berlingeri in the median, that I was able to observe, as well as a spanking fall adult male Blackburnian Warbler. The swale was slow, with a lone Baird's Sandpiper being the highlight. Compared to yesterday, where two species of warbler were observed all morning at WE2, today was a bonanza. At Heckscher State Park, Sue Feustel found a single Buff-breasted Sandpiper feeding in the median east of the pool accompanied by ten Killdeer. Warblers observed were Parula, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, and Am. Redstart. Ken Feustel -- 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] Rockefeller S.P.P. birds
9/5/10 - Rockefeller S.P.P., Pocantico Hills, NY Time: 2pm to 5pm Observers: Andrew Block, Mark Schwartz 2 Magnolia Warblers 3 Black-throated Green Warblers 1 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Northern Parula 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Warbling Vireos 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Hairy Woodepeckers 2 Northern Flickers 3 Red-bellied Woodpeckers 8+ Chimney Swifts 3 Black Vultures plus usual species Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Field Biologist & Eco-tour Leader 37 Tanglewylde Avenue Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131 Phone: (914) 337-1229; Fax: (914) 771-8036 "When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again..." - William Beebe, first Curator of Birds, Bronx Zoo "Crikey! Have a look at that!" - Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter "Just like the white winged dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing whoo, baby...whoo...said whoo" - Stephanie L. Nicks, Edge of 17, Bella Donna -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Ruff, knot, and more - Montezuma NWR
The juvenile RUFF is still visible in Knox-Marsellus Marsh at Montezuma NWR, Seneca County, from the dike at Towpath Road, as well as a juvenile RED KNOT, two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, two Ruddy Turnstones, two Sanderlings, many Least, Semipalmated, Pectoral, Baird's, Stilt, and White-rumped sandpipers, Short-billed Dowitchers, both yellowlegs, 14 American Golden-Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, and Killdeer. Jay McGowan Ithaca, NY On Sep 6, 2010 11:16 AM, "Jay McGowan" wrote: Tim Lenz says he and others are watching a juvenile RUFF from Towpath Road. Jay McGowan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabird...@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Sullivan County
A four day weekend of birding for Scott Baldinger, Arlene Borko, Lance Verderame and I here in Sullivan County really paid off in terms of migration and good birds. Highlights of the weekend included 16 or more species of warbler, including BAY-BREASTED, TENNESSEE and Palm Warblers. The big highlights of the 85 species recorded were the STILT SANDPIPER on Friday and FORSTER'S TERN on Sunday! We had several PHILADELPHIA VIREOS each of the four days and in several locations. Two OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS at the Bashakill and a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER (LV) made for some really interesting days. Renee Davis and I started the hawk watch season off with nice diversity and great looks at a Peregrine Falcon. You can go to the HMANA web page to see results. John Haas -- 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/ --
Re: [nysbirds-l] Robt Moses SP Suffolk County - Chat, Lark Sparrow, +
To add to Dave's report: after departing Robert Moses I had an immature Stilt Sandpiper, female Greater Scaup, and 4 Blue-winged teal at a pond in the Cedar Beach Sore Thumb, which is located at the end of Oak Beach Road west of Captree SP. The marshes on Captree Island, as viewed from Captree Island Road, held two Little Blue Herons and about 5 Boat-tailed Grackles. The Clay-colored Sparrow was seen by Shai Mitra, Pat Lindsay, and me at around 7:00 next to the hawkwatch platform on the south side of the parkway. The bird proceeded to fly into the median and then the north side of the road, but was not subsequently visible. Also, to clarify, the Red-headed Woodpecker and Dickcissel were seen from the hawkwatch yesterday, not this morning. Sorry for the confusion, that was my fault. Good Birding, Brent Bomkamp Northport, NY From: David Klauber To: NY Birds Sent: Mon, September 6, 2010 11:24:36 AM Subject: [nysbirds-l] Robt Moses SP Suffolk County - Chat, Lark Sparrow, + The previously reported Lark Sparrow was found again this morning near the dumpsters at the western end of Robt Moses field 2. I could not find it from around 7:30 to 8:30, but Brent Bonkamp, John Gluth and others had it just north of the dumpsters around 8:30, flying across the closed exit ramp and also feeding along the curb giving great looks. A Dickcissel was seen by Pat Lindsay earlier near the volleyball courts at the eastern end of field 2. A search around 9:30 or so failed to relocate it, however Joan Quinlan found a Yellow-breatsed Chat in the shrubs by the southwest corner. It later flew into the pines just north and west, along the exit. Also reported was a Clay-colored Sparrow by the field 5 hawkwatch earlier - not seen later around 9 AM, but there was lots of foot traffic. I heard that earlier a red-headed Woodpecker and Dickcissel were seen first thing this morning by the hawkwatch by Shai and Brent Bonkamp. In general there were not that many birds, just a few good ones Most of these birds were at the north end of their respective areas -- 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] Juvenile Ruff at Montezuma
>Tim Lenz says he and others are watching a juvenile RUFF from Towpath Road. Jay McGowan This timely note from Jay McGowan (Sep 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM) deserves cross-posting on the statewide list. Compared to the 1970's and 80's when a number of birds were seen each spring and fall migration, Ruff has become quite rare statewide and is now on the NYSARC review list. For reasons that are still poorly understood, juveniles have always been quite rare on the east coast and are thus especially noteworthy. I'll leave it to the Cayuga Basin birders to provide further updates. -- Angus Wilson New York City & The Springs, NY, USA http://birdingtotheend.blogspot.com/ -- 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] general migration (northeast)
Labor Day, 6 Sept., 2010 I would point out that in the NYC area there have been some bird reports suggesting relatively little migration in the past several days (while there are also simultaneous reports from NYC locations indicating fairly good migrant passage & stop-over). In fact, my understanding is that there has been tremendous southward migration lately and that a great deal of that has been nocturnal and of such duration that many birds have sailed past the NYC region to points south. This is supported at least somewhat by voluminous various reports from sites in southern New Jersey, Pennsylavania, Delaware, and elsewhere in the region just south of New York (and from personal bird-related messages from others in the field). Interesting, at least to me, are the numbers of Black-capped Chickadees migrating in some areas (including smallish numbers moving through at Central Park, NYC) & of course, the ongoing movements of Red-breasted Nuthatches, rather widely reported and observed recently. Plenty of nice migrants being seen in Prospect Park, Brooklyn over Sunday & likely again this Labor Day Monday including Yellow-breasted Chat, & much more, as reported by multiple observers out that way via Peter Dorosh's Brooklyn birding blog, & from a few personal messages as well. Also, as virtually anyone in the northeast who went out at all this past week saw, "Hurricane Earl" was a big disappointment in terms of storm-related fall-out or vagrant sightings, although at least one Sooty Tern was reported from Nova Scotia, as well as three Sandwich Terns at a single (other) location in that Canadian province, after "Earl"'s passage there. Also of note were a very recent photo of a "possible" 'Snowy' Plover from a still-different location on Nova Scotia. Many terns of more 'northern'-breeding flavors (than Sooty or Sandwich) were found off Nova Scotia, some quite special for that province or anywhere quite that far north (& east). One New Brunswick (Maritime province of eastern Canada) birder summed up Earl's passage there thusly: "not a bang but a whimper". On Newfoundland Canada, a couple of birders there summed up the search for "pearls from Earl": "no results oh well", although a Northern Shrike there on "Newfie" is a nice addition, at least to us deep-south New Yorkers. There are modest increases in jaeger sightings from such places as along the shores of the Great Lakes (both U.S. & Canada) and these are in normal migration mode now, so that a sighting in an area such as coastal Long Island, NY should not really be seen necessarily as having been storm- related, although a major storm could influence any migration, obviously. It is typical jaeger migation time, into the autumn. In central New Hampshire (near Concord), a Western Kingbird was sighted Sunday, 9/5 - but this is a regular/annual "vagrant" to the northeast from late Aug. thru the autumn and not really related to "Earl" the little hurricane that couldn't. (That W.K.B. was not reported as a storm-related sighting.) At least a few Connecticut Warblers have been reported with reasonable certainty (such as one that gave a bit of song & was seen in Pennsylvania) from varied locations east, west, north & south of NY state in the past few days. (I think hear one of them tip-toeing about Central Park this very morning... but from a tremendous distance -so I'll rely on others to verify any such possibility! The species does have large feet for a wood-warbler...) A nice sighting of four Caspian Terns on Staten Island here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SINaturaList/message/1807 (That is Staten Island / Richmond County, in New York City) The White-tailed Kite has lingered on in coastal Connecticut, via the CT Daily reports - at least into Sunday, 5 September. Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan & points n. -- 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] Kew Gardens Common Ravens
This morning, two Common Ravens were on the water tower in Kew Gardens, Queens. The next Kingbird will include an article by Corey Finger and I about the nest there last spring. Seth Ausubel Forest Hills, NY -- 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/ --
