[nysbirds-l] Barrier Beach Birds (Suffolk/Nassau Counties)

[ken feustel]

On Monday Sue and I started our morning at Robert Moses State Park which, 
except for a few warblers was quiet. We proceeded west down Ocean Parkway and 
made a stop at Gilgo Beach, where for the last few years Forster's Terns have 
been using the floating docks down at the west end of the marina as an early 
fall roost (we observed thirty-five birds on the docks). As we were leaving we 
noticed a bird sitting on the wire near the first home at the east end of the 
Gilgo Beach parking area - Western Kingbird. The bird, an individual in worn 
plumage, quickly flew toward the parkway and we could not relocate it. We then 
proceeded to West End, where the previously reported Marbled Godwit was 
sleeping on the sandbar. At the swale an immature American Golden Plover was 
picking through the mud. Other shorebirds present in the swale and on the beach 
included White-rumped, Semi, and Western Sandpipers.

Sue and I spent five days on Monhegan Island, Maine, a well known migrant trap 
twelve miles east of Port Clyde, ME. Although we encountered no cold fronts and 
birding was slow, we still managed Lark (3) and Clay-colored Sparrows (3), 
Dickcissel (10), Philadelphia Vireo (2), Orange-crowned Warbler (1), Western 
Kingbird (1) and Lapland Longspur (2). A few nice looks at Great Shearwater 
were obtained on the ferry ride home. Photos of some Monhegan Island birds, as 
well as juvenile White-rumped Sandpiper and the Gilgo Western Kingbird (poor 
photo) can be found at my flickr website at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfeustel/



Ken & Sue Feustel

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[nysbirds-l] Peter Pyle and Helen Hays to speak at The Linnaean Society of NY next Tuesday (11 Oct)

[Angus Wilson]

*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***

Next TUESDAY (11 Oct 2011), The Linnaean Society of New York (TLS) will
present another two part program featuring entertaining talks by Helen Hays
and Peter Pyle. The program is held at the American Museum of Natural
History (AMNH) in New York City.

*6:00 p.m. A TALK WITH HELEN HAYS*
AMNH ornithologist Helen Hays - director of the Great Gull Island Project,
recipient of the Eisenmann Medal (1989), and the first woman to be elected
president of The Linnaean Society of New York (1973) - will share stories of
tern research on Great Gull Island, the Society, and the Museum.

*7:30 p.m. ADVENTURES IN MOLT BY PETER PYLE*
Working as a biologist on the Farallon Islands off California for the past
24 years, Peter Pyle has studied the ecology and migrations of many forms of
marine life ranging from albatrosses to Great White Sharks. He is perhaps
best known for his two volume *Identification Guide to North American Birds*.
Popularly called the 'Bander’s Bible', this unparalleled guide to North
American birds is based on the study of more than 60,000 specimens from
museum skin collections and remains the most comprehensive guide available
for identifying species and subspecies, sex and age by using evidence such
as individual feathers.

In his talk, Peter Pyle will explain various aspects of bird molt,
“presenting the vastly improved Humphrey-Parkes system of molt and plumage
terminology in layperson’s terms; considering the interactions between bird
molt, plumage color, age, and identification; illustrating the fascinating
molt patterns of ducks, ptarmigans, alcids, herons, raptors, and birds that
undergo Stafflemauser (the stepwise molt of many large birds that need to
maintain flight while molting); imparting the importance of molting to bird
conservation; and concluding with thoughts on molt in tropical birds and
avenues for future research.”

Surely, a must for any birder worth their salt!

[Note: If you cannot make it to see Peter on Tuesday, he will also be
speaking to Greenwich Audubon on the subject of Trans-Pacific Migrations
(albatrosses, Great White Sharks and more) the following Thursday (6:30-8:30
PM, 13 Oct). A reception will precede the lecture. RSVP to Jeff Cordulack at
203-869-5272 x239 or jcordul...@audubon.org;. Audubon Greenwich, 613
Riversville Road, Greenwich, CT 06831; on the web at
http://greenwich.audubon.org]

Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the
'People Center' at the American Museum of Natural History. Enter the museum
from the 77th Street entrance, where TLS members will be on hand to guide
you up to the auditorium. The first program will last approximately one
hour. Anyone wishing to meet Peter Pyle before the 7:30 program may come to
dinner at Pappardella, 316 Columbus Ave. at 75th St., at 6 pm. The
reservation will be in the name of Deutsch.

Jeff Nulle (Vice-President and Chair of the Program Committee) has put
together a spectacular program of invited speakers, workshops and video
presentations for the coming 2011/2012 season. For more details, please
check out (and bookmark) our website

http://linnaeannewyork.org/programs.html

or visit us on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linnaean-Society-of-New-York/335385365977?ref=ts

We hope to see many of you on Tuesday (no reservations necessary), for a
very special evening with two leaders in ornithology.

Angus Wilson
Council Member, The Linnaean Society of New York

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[nysbirds-l] Etna, NY: Dickcissel (4 October 2011)

[Chris Tessaglia-Hymes]

For the past few nights, I've been recording from my rooftop in Etna, NY
(Fingerlakes Region), and either listening real-time or doing a quick
browse-through on the following morning, using Raven Pro. If I hear (or see,
as is the case when browsing after the fact) a good, clear or interesting
flight call, I'll grab it and save it as a selection for future reference.

 

Last night, I recorded from about 8:30pm until just after the start of Civil
Twilight this morning (around 6:40am). While I was recording, I listened
live from about 9:00pm to midnight, at which point I allowed the computer to
continue recording, while I went to bed. This morning, upon reviewing the
recording files (browsing), I was pleasantly surprised to find a DICKCISSEL
flight note at 12:34am (only about 30 minutes after I went to bed, so I
missed it, live!). It wasn't totally loud or directly overhead, but probably
off to the side of my recording station somewhere, but still just loud
enough to clearly ID the flight call note.

 

This particular call note has 7 distinct segments to the call, with no
inter-peak connections at the troughs (i.e., not modulated). This gives the
call a distinctive "frappy" or "flatulent" and "reedy" quality and sounds
like a fast: "F-r-r-r-r-r-t".

 

I've placed a 4-second clip of the call at this link:
http://www.northeastbirding.com/111004.003417_DICKCISSEL_Modified_Shorter.wa
v, as well as a frame grab of just the call at this link:
http://www.northeastbirding.com/111004.003417_Dickcissel_Etna_NY.jpg. Again,
it's not too faint, but it's also not right on top of the microphone. I
filtered the clip slightly to help eliminate some LF noise. The Dickcissel
only called once.

 

Throughout the night, there were pretty much constant Gray-cheeked and
Swainson's Thrush calls, as well as ample warbler flight notes. No
definitive Bicknell's Thrush notes, although some that came pretty high and
close to resembling Bicknell's (I was hoping for Bicknell's with the
continued weather patterns and general direction of migration (NE to SW).
During the night of 2 October to 3 October, Green Herons were on the move,
with several individuals being heard flying over throughout the night.

 

If anyone is interested in nocturnal migration and identification of Night
Flight Calls, there is a Night Flight Call eList that was created a couple
years ago to support this growing area of interest. Information about that
eList is available at http://www.NortheastBirding.com. 

 

Good night listening!

 

Sincerely,
Chris T-H

 

 

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TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer

Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850

W: 607-254-2418   M: 607-351-5740   F: 607-254-1132

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp

 

 


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[nysbirds-l] Say's Phoebe at Caumsett State Park (Suffolk Co.)

[ken feustel]

Annie McIntyre and Sue Feustel discovered a Say's Phoebe late this morning in 
the west fields of Caumsett State Park on Lloyd Neck. The fields are to the 
west of the park entrance road and parking area/toll booth. If you go you can 
consult the map in the kiosk just path the toll booth. However, if you just 
walk in a northwest direction from the parking lot you will crest a hill and 
see the fields just beyond a few tall Locust trees. Cell phone service is 
erratic at CSP - you may not be able to call anyone from a given location. Good 
luck if you go (I am stuck waiting for a LIPA representative to service our 
burner).

Ken Feustel

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Say's Phoebe at Caumsett State Park (Suffolk Co.)

[Shaibal Mitra]

The bird showed nicely from when I re-found it around 1:15 to when I left at 
2:45. Thanks Annie, Sue, and Ken!

I recommend bringing a scope and standing back by the line of locust trees 
mentioned in Ken's post.

Scan the brush-hogged stubble and wooden posts to the west. The bird stays low 
and moves around actively, over a fairly wide area, which is nevertheless 
almost completely visible from the locust trees. If people enter the fields to 
get closer views, their views are unlikely to remain close for very long; more 
importantly, the bird's ability to move around as it pleases would be 
restricted, and it might decide to move on.

I've posted some photos at the end of this album:

https://picasaweb.google.com/109808209543611018404/LongIslandFall2011

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-38118688-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-38118688-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of ken feustel 
[feus...@optonline.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:14 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Say's Phoebe at Caumsett State Park (Suffolk Co.)

Annie McIntyre and Sue Feustel discovered a Say's Phoebe late this morning in 
the west fields of Caumsett State Park on Lloyd Neck. The fields are to the 
west of the park entrance road and parking area/toll booth. If you go you can 
consult the map in the kiosk just path the toll booth. However, if you just 
walk in a northwest direction from the parking lot you will crest a hill and 
see the fields just beyond a few tall Locust trees. Cell phone service is 
erratic at CSP - you may not be able to call anyone from a given location. Good 
luck if you go (I am stuck waiting for a LIPA representative to service our 
burner).

Ken Feustel
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[nysbirds-l] Tennessee Warbler in yard

[Andrew Block]

Just had a Tennessee Warbler in my bird bath.  I seem to get them every  now 
and again in the fall.  Nice bird.
 
Andrew

Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist/Wildlife Biologist
37 Tanglewylde Avenue
Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131
Phone: 914-337-1229; Fax: 914-771-8036
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[nysbirds-l] Say's Phoebe at Caumsett State Park Update (Suffolk Co.)

[ken feustel]

I was finally able to reach CSP at about 3:30PM and gradually was joined by a 
small group of birders who all got good spotting scope looks at the phoebe. At 
one point the phoebe grabbed an Orange Sulphur butterfly and an envious Eastern 
Phoebe tried to grab it away (no luck).  Birders should be aware that this site 
is part of an active grasslands restoration project and tilling of the field is 
scheduled to begin tomorrow at about 8:00AM.

In addition to the Phoebe there were a good variety of raptors around, 
including 1-3 Bald Eagles, Cooper's Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Osprey, Merlin, 
and American Kestrel. The Phoebe seemed unfazed by all this activity, sitting 
tight while any raptor was coursing the fields.

Ken Feustel

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