[nysbirds-l] Mottled Duck NO…
Not since it was last reported earlier in the day. Several individuals
including myself covered Ketchum’s Creek and other local spots at various times
throughout the day but the Mottled Duck (MODU) was a no show.
Nevertheless, I did enjoy my 3 hour + vigil at Ketchum’s, meeting with faces
that I had not see in years and some new, including Ernst Mutchnick, the finder
of what would be NY’s first record, pending NYSARC approval.
All reports positive or negative would be appreciated and many thanks to those
who have done so.
Cheers,
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves could free our
mind.” ~ Bob Marley
“Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but
manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran
"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
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[nysbirds-l] Mottled Duck NO…
Not since it was last reported earlier in the day. Several individuals
including myself covered Ketchum’s Creek and other local spots at various times
throughout the day but the Mottled Duck (MODU) was a no show.
Nevertheless, I did enjoy my 3 hour + vigil at Ketchum’s, meeting with faces
that I had not see in years and some new, including Ernst Mutchnick, the finder
of what would be NY’s first record, pending NYSARC approval.
All reports positive or negative would be appreciated and many thanks to those
who have done so.
Cheers,
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves could free our
mind.” ~ Bob Marley
“Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but
manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran
"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
> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (")
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. April 20, 2022: Red-breasted Merganser, Merlin, Louisiana Waterthrush, Yellow-throated Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco
Central Park NYC Sunday April 20, 2022 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights on a breezy and chilly Sunday morning: Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Great Horned Owl, Merlin, Louisiana Waterthrush, Pine Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco uptick in numbers. The Prothonotary Warbler, reported at the Reservoir Saturday by Laura Beamer and Lauren Kingsberg, wasn't refound there today. Canada Goose - 19 (3 nests so far at the Reservoir) Wood Duck - 3 males including one at the NE Reservoir with his female Mallard Gadwall - 2 males Reservoir (Deb - early) Northern Shoveler - around 70 Mallard - around 20 Bufflehead - 23 Hooded Merganser - 3 Red-breasted Merganser - 2 continuing at Reservoir (1st report this a.m. from Edmund Berry) Mourning Dove - 15-20 Herring Gull - 15 Double-crested Cormorant - 8-12 Turkey Vulture - flyover Great Lawn seen from Pinetum (Ryan Serio) Osprey - flyover Belvedere Castle (Bob - early) Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Great Horned Owl - continuing bird attended by Blue Jays, etc. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2-4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 25-30 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Ramble Northern Flicker - 10-15 Merlin - immature male eating a small bird at Tupelo Field Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 1 flyover Maintenance Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3-5 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5-10 Cedar Waxwing - flock of around 10 Brown Creeper - 3-5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher- 3 Brown Thrasher - 2 (Swampy Pin Oak and Weather Station) Northern Mockingbird - heard from NE Reservoir (Deb - early) Hermit Thrush - 25-35 American Robin - 40-50, many paired up House Finch - 5-10 American Goldfinch - 4 Chipping Sparrow - 15-18 Dark-eyed Junco - 75-100 White-throated Sparrow - 15-25 Song Sparrow - 6-8 Swamp Sparrow - 1 flew from Azalea Pond to Swampy Pin Oak (Andrea Hessel) Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Common Grackle - 10-20 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 Ramble (Ryan Serio) Pine Warbler - 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Ramble Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 continued at south end of Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 7-10 Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. April 20, 2022: Red-breasted Merganser, Merlin, Louisiana Waterthrush, Yellow-throated Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco
Central Park NYC Sunday April 20, 2022 OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. Highlights on a breezy and chilly Sunday morning: Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Great Horned Owl, Merlin, Louisiana Waterthrush, Pine Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco uptick in numbers. The Prothonotary Warbler, reported at the Reservoir Saturday by Laura Beamer and Lauren Kingsberg, wasn't refound there today. Canada Goose - 19 (3 nests so far at the Reservoir) Wood Duck - 3 males including one at the NE Reservoir with his female Mallard Gadwall - 2 males Reservoir (Deb - early) Northern Shoveler - around 70 Mallard - around 20 Bufflehead - 23 Hooded Merganser - 3 Red-breasted Merganser - 2 continuing at Reservoir (1st report this a.m. from Edmund Berry) Mourning Dove - 15-20 Herring Gull - 15 Double-crested Cormorant - 8-12 Turkey Vulture - flyover Great Lawn seen from Pinetum (Ryan Serio) Osprey - flyover Belvedere Castle (Bob - early) Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Great Horned Owl - continuing bird attended by Blue Jays, etc. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2-4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 25-30 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Ramble Northern Flicker - 10-15 Merlin - immature male eating a small bird at Tupelo Field Eastern Phoebe - 4 Blue Jay - 6-8 American Crow - 1 flyover Maintenance Field Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3-5 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 5-10 Cedar Waxwing - flock of around 10 Brown Creeper - 3-5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher- 3 Brown Thrasher - 2 (Swampy Pin Oak and Weather Station) Northern Mockingbird - heard from NE Reservoir (Deb - early) Hermit Thrush - 25-35 American Robin - 40-50, many paired up House Finch - 5-10 American Goldfinch - 4 Chipping Sparrow - 15-18 Dark-eyed Junco - 75-100 White-throated Sparrow - 15-25 Song Sparrow - 6-8 Swamp Sparrow - 1 flew from Azalea Pond to Swampy Pin Oak (Andrea Hessel) Red-winged Blackbird - 5-10 Common Grackle - 10-20 Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 Ramble (Ryan Serio) Pine Warbler - 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Ramble Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 continued at south end of Maintenance Field Northern Cardinal - 7-10 Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - 4/10 - Yellow-throated & other Warblers lingering; & other migrants
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Palm Sunday, April 10th:
The Yellow-throated Warbler (first found on April 1st, by Paul Sweet
[A.M.N.H.]) has continued into a tenth day in Central Park, again showing at
the northeast portions of the Ramble there. Some other warblers found on Sunday
in Central were again, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm, Pine, [Myrtle]
Yellow-rumped Warblers… (and out on Governors Island, in N.Y. County, a report
of Orange-crowned Warbler - around the playground by Leggett Plaza there, which
might well be one which had wintered there, along with some
Myrtle/Yellow-rumped Warblers. Thanks to Claudine, and Todd, for the latter
species sighting & report for Sun., 4/10.)
Again, many more Hermit Thrushes & Chipping Sparrows are among the various
species of spring, indicating recent arrival (even with a modest number of
those 2 species having wintered; we are now seeing easily ten times the numbers
of each, than had wintered in the county). Central Park alone had more than 80
Hermit Thrush on Sunday, 4/10 (one end of the park to the other). Very
modestly-more Palm Warblers, all noted rather well being of the ‘yellow’ form.
A very few migrant shorebirds have (again) stopped-in.
Some (not all) of the species found Sunday, April 10th at Central Park, NYC:
Common Loon [& Loon-species, poss. Red-throated] - flyovers.
Double-crested Cormorant - including flyovers.
Great Blue Heron - including flyovers.
Great Egret - including flyovers.
Snowy Egret - flyovers.
Black-crowned Night-Heron (multiple)
Turkey Vulture - flyovers.
Canada Goose
Wood Duck (multiple)
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler (multiple)
Bufflehead (multiple)
Hooded Merganser (multiple)
Red-breasted Merganser (ongoing pair, Reservoir)
Ruddy Duck (multiple)
Osprey - flyovers.
Bald Eagle - flyover.
Sharp-shinned Hawk - flyover.
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk - flyover.
Red-tailed Hawk (multiple)
American Coot (reservoir)
Solitary Sandpiper
American Woodcock
Ring-billed Gull (multiple)
[American] Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
American Kestrel
Merlin - flyover.
Peregrine Falcon
['feral'] Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Owl, & Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (multiple)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker (multiple)
Eastern Phoebe (multiple)
Blue Jay (multiple)
Common Raven
American Crow (multiple)
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (multiple)
Barn Swallow (multiple, but not very many)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper (multiple)
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet (multiple)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (multiple)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (multiple)
Hermit Thrush (many)
American Robin ('vast numbers’)
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher (multiple)
European Starling
House Sparrow
Cedar Waxwing (many, scattered locations)
Eastern Towhee (multiple)
Slate-colored Junco (multiple)
Chipping Sparrow (many, scattered locations)
Field Sparrow (multiple)
Savannah Sparrow
[Red] Fox Sparrow (multiple)
Song Sparrow (multiple)
Swamp Sparrow (multiple)
White-throated Sparrow (many)
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle (multiple)
Brown-headed Cowbird
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Yellow-throated Warbler (ongoing, ‘albilora’ form as found ten days ago, per
above notes, from April 1st)
[Myrtle] Yellow-rumped Warbler (multiple)
Pine Warbler (multiple)
Palm Warbler (multiple)
Louisiana Waterthrush (multiple)
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Purple Finch
House Finch (multiple)
American Goldfinch (multiple)
& likely some other species...
. . .
N.B. - Broad-winged Hawk was also seen as a fly-by/migrant from Inwood Hill
Park, Manhattan on Saturday, April 9th,
and, same obs. has photographed Louisiana Waterthrush at that
northern-Manhattan park for Sunday, 4/10.
Thanks to all of the many quiet observers, many also offering reports of their
sightings from Central Park & elsewhere.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler, Central Park, NYC (Sat.-p.m., 4/9)
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Saturday, April 9th, 6:30 p.m. - thanks to L. Beamer for the eBird report on the (brightly-plumaged) Prothonotary Warbler seen later in the day by the Central Park reservoir’s [north side of] running track (the path right around the reservoir); the warbler foraging along-near the shore there. This area (C.P. reservoir) has, over the many years, regularly been the site of some of the occurences of this species in N.Y. County. It is also very possible that this individual may make its’ way on to other sections of the same park (including parts of the n. end, of same park) or to farther-flung localities. Although the species has a clear, known affinity for being near water, it can also show at times in migration at places where less expected or “anticipated”. And of course, this species will sometimes ascend well-above the water-line areas in any particular location[s]. Also, it is at least possible more than one individual may turn up, as has happened multiple times, again over the years, for that Central Park NYC location. This would be at least the seventh warbler species for Saturday for N.Y. County, and the sixth of that day for Central Park. Also, as already noted the species had been making appearances elsewhere, notably in Queens County, N.Y. City and might well show in some other locations. good birds - quietly-observed, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler, Central Park, NYC (Sat.-p.m., 4/9)
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Saturday, April 9th, 6:30 p.m. - thanks to L. Beamer for the eBird report on the (brightly-plumaged) Prothonotary Warbler seen later in the day by the Central Park reservoir’s [north side of] running track (the path right around the reservoir); the warbler foraging along-near the shore there. This area (C.P. reservoir) has, over the many years, regularly been the site of some of the occurences of this species in N.Y. County. It is also very possible that this individual may make its’ way on to other sections of the same park (including parts of the n. end, of same park) or to farther-flung localities. Although the species has a clear, known affinity for being near water, it can also show at times in migration at places where less expected or “anticipated”. And of course, this species will sometimes ascend well-above the water-line areas in any particular location[s]. Also, it is at least possible more than one individual may turn up, as has happened multiple times, again over the years, for that Central Park NYC location. This would be at least the seventh warbler species for Saturday for N.Y. County, and the sixth of that day for Central Park. Also, as already noted the species had been making appearances elsewhere, notably in Queens County, N.Y. City and might well show in some other locations. good birds - quietly-observed, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Mottled Duck YES Sunday (briefly)
After no confirmed sightings yesterday, the male Mottled Duck appeared at the north end of Ketcham's Creek this morning around 7:30, likely having flown in with a dozen or so other dabblers 10 or 15 minutes prior. At 7:35, its female took off and headed NE, and the Mottled followed a few seconds after, disappearing over houses in that direction. So the bird is still around, but no less challenging to pin down. Jay -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Mottled Duck YES Sunday (briefly)
After no confirmed sightings yesterday, the male Mottled Duck appeared at the north end of Ketcham's Creek this morning around 7:30, likely having flown in with a dozen or so other dabblers 10 or 15 minutes prior. At 7:35, its female took off and headed NE, and the Mottled followed a few seconds after, disappearing over houses in that direction. So the bird is still around, but no less challenging to pin down. Jay -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
