[nysbirds-l] Extralimital Curlew Sandpiper male in Stratford, CT
Just posting for anyone who wants to see a gorgeous sandpiper at Short Beach Golf Course on Short Beach Rd. in Stratford, CT. A gorgeous male Curlew Sandpiper is in the little cattail pond as seen from Short Beach Rd. The pond is on the left after turning right onto Short Beach Rd. from Dorne Dr. off Rte. 113. Can't park on that road but the side roads are parkable. A beautiful bird, my second and first breeding plumage one. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums -- 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] Extralimital Curlew Sandpiper male in Stratford, CT
Just posting for anyone who wants to see a gorgeous sandpiper at Short Beach Golf Course on Short Beach Rd. in Stratford, CT. A gorgeous male Curlew Sandpiper is in the little cattail pond as seen from Short Beach Rd. The pond is on the left after turning right onto Short Beach Rd. from Dorne Dr. off Rte. 113. Can't park on that road but the side roads are parkable. A beautiful bird, my second and first breeding plumage one. Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums -- 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] Syracuse area RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 18, 2022 * NYSY 07. 18. 22 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): July 11, 2022 to July 18, 2022 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: July 18 AT 11:00 a.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #802: Monday July 18, 2022 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 11 2022 Highlights: --- LEAST BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON REDHEAD SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER STILT SANDPIPER COMMON TERN RED-HEADED WOODPECKER ACADIAN FLYCATCHER CERULEAN WARBLER VESPER SPARROW ORCHARD ORIOLE Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 7/13: 10 species of Shorebirds including 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen in the Main Pool. Also seen were 3 BONAPARTE’S GULLS. 7/14: A CERULEAN WRBLER was seen on VanDyne Spoor Road. A LEAST BITTERN was found at the Morgan Road Marsh. 7/17: 4 STILT SANDPIPERS continue at the beginning of the Wildlife Drive. Onondaga County 7/13: A REDHEAD continues in Skaneateles Creek in Skaneateles and appears to be injured. 7/15: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen along the Erie Canal in Fayettevikke. Oswego County 7/11: A VESPER SPARROW was seen in the Fairdale Rural Cemetery. 7/13: 6 Shorebirds along with a GREEN-WINGED TEAL and a NORTHERN PINTAL were found at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario. 7/16: COMMON TERNS were observed on a nest at Lock 2 on the Oswego River in Fulton. 7/17: An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was found on Cowpath Road near Fulton. Madison County 7/14: A VESPER SPARROW was found near DeRuyter Reservoir. 7/16: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at the Great Swamp Conservancy north of Canastota. Oneida County 7/11: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues on Lakeshore Road at the north east end of Oneida Lake near North Bay. ---end report Region 5 Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, NY 13027 -- 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] Syracuse area RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 18, 2022 * NYSY 07. 18. 22 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): July 11, 2022 to July 18, 2022 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: July 18 AT 11:00 a.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #802: Monday July 18, 2022 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of July 11 2022 Highlights: --- LEAST BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON REDHEAD SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER STILT SANDPIPER COMMON TERN RED-HEADED WOODPECKER ACADIAN FLYCATCHER CERULEAN WARBLER VESPER SPARROW ORCHARD ORIOLE Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 7/13: 10 species of Shorebirds including 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen in the Main Pool. Also seen were 3 BONAPARTE’S GULLS. 7/14: A CERULEAN WRBLER was seen on VanDyne Spoor Road. A LEAST BITTERN was found at the Morgan Road Marsh. 7/17: 4 STILT SANDPIPERS continue at the beginning of the Wildlife Drive. Onondaga County 7/13: A REDHEAD continues in Skaneateles Creek in Skaneateles and appears to be injured. 7/15: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen along the Erie Canal in Fayettevikke. Oswego County 7/11: A VESPER SPARROW was seen in the Fairdale Rural Cemetery. 7/13: 6 Shorebirds along with a GREEN-WINGED TEAL and a NORTHERN PINTAL were found at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario. 7/16: COMMON TERNS were observed on a nest at Lock 2 on the Oswego River in Fulton. 7/17: An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was found on Cowpath Road near Fulton. Madison County 7/14: A VESPER SPARROW was found near DeRuyter Reservoir. 7/16: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at the Great Swamp Conservancy north of Canastota. Oneida County 7/11: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues on Lakeshore Road at the north east end of Oneida Lake near North Bay. ---end report Region 5 Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, NY 13027 -- 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/ --
Re: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Bank Swallow nests at Plumb Beach
Hi Redknot, I sent you an email to your email address alone but apparently, you didn't receive it. It might have gone to your spam folder. You seem to only get the email that goes through this list. In my response to your question if it is possible to put signs and ropes, I say: Yes. It can be done. I saw a tent just above the wall and a man was walking at the edge of the cliff, just few feet above the nests. If a tent can be erected there, signs and roping also can be done. Anyway, this is my last email about this subject on the list. I am happy to continue discussion privately. Feel free to send me an email to you email address. Gus Keri On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:28:25 -0400 Gus Keri wrote --- > Yes. It can be done. yesterday, I saw a tent just above the wall and a man > was walking at the edge of the cliff, just few feet above the nests. If a > tent can be erected there, signs and roping also can be done. > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:22:05 -0400wrote --- > > Gus: Thank you for sharing some good news! Do you think that signs and > > roping could be put on top to prevent humans from compressing the > > nesting chambers? > > > > > > -- Original Message -- > > From: gusk...@zoho.com > > To: jose.ramirez.garof...@rutgers.edu > > Cc: nysbirds-l@cornell.edu > > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2022 1:46 PM > > Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Bank Swallow nests at Plumb Beach > > > > Great news! > > After I saw the photo of the nestling taken by another birder 3 days > > ago (I am sorry for not mentioning his/her name. I don't know if he/she > > wants the publicity), I had to go and check on the fate of this nestling > > and the nest. > > > > The moment I arrived, I noticed that the nest that was half occluded > > yesterday is wide open today. It made me happy to see that the swallow > > re-opened it. Looking inside, I could see the chick is alive and well. > > > > Few minutes later, an adult came and fed the chick and I recorded the > > feeding act on video. You can see it here: > > > > https://twitter.com/BirdBrklyn/status/1548720277110005762 > > > > To the best of my knowledge, this is the first ever Bank Swallow > > offspring that was born in Brooklyn. If this is inaccurate, please, let > > me know. > > > > The fact that this nest is wide open proved to me again that no bird > > will ever abandon its chicks permanently. They might abandon them for a > > short period of time when there is a danger around, but they always come > > back to care for them after the danger goes away. At least this is my > > experience with all the nests I have followed over the years. > > > > This Swallow couldn't let its chick be buried alive. > > > > As for the other nests, they are still occluded. Two of them totally > > occluded and the third is half occluded. My thinking that there are no > > living chicks inside. The swallows probably abandoned their eggs, and > > they might try laying eggs in another burrow, like Jose suggested. > > > > Good birding to all > > Gus Keri > > > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:30:59 -0400 Jose Ramirez-Garofalo > > wrote --- > >> > >> Gus, > >> > >> Unfortunately, that is a common occurrence with Bank Swallow > > colonies on the coast. There is really no way to adequately protect the > > nests unless the land management agency fences off the top of the > > dune/bluff. Disturbance to the front of the colony site can also a > > problem at a site like Plumb—though less-so than actual nest collapse. > > Since they aren’t protected (not even as a Species of Special Concern > > despite their widespread declines in NYS/the northeast), it isn’t likely > > that targeted measures will be undertaken for the swallows there. > >> > >> The good news is that they are adept at re-nesting, and will > > sometimes nest in drainpipes like Northern Rough-winged Swallows. We are > > pretty late in the season for them, but it isn’t out of the question. > >> > >> Cheers- > >> José > >> > >> -- > >> José R. Ramírez-Garofalo > >> Pronouns: He/Him/His > >> PhD Student > >> Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources > >> Rutgers University > >> 14 College Farm Road, > >> New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 > >> > >> > >> From: Gus Keri > >> Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:52 PM > >> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Bank Swallow nests at Plumb Beach > >> To: Birding alert, NYSBirds, Birding alert > >> > >> > >> Updates on these nests: > >> Today, the third nest was totally occluded and the fourth one is > > half-occluded, and I anticipate it to be gone by the end of the day. > >> The
Re: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Bank Swallow nests at Plumb Beach
Hi Redknot, I sent you an email to your email address alone but apparently, you didn't receive it. It might have gone to your spam folder. You seem to only get the email that goes through this list. In my response to your question if it is possible to put signs and ropes, I say: Yes. It can be done. I saw a tent just above the wall and a man was walking at the edge of the cliff, just few feet above the nests. If a tent can be erected there, signs and roping also can be done. Anyway, this is my last email about this subject on the list. I am happy to continue discussion privately. Feel free to send me an email to you email address. Gus Keri On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:28:25 -0400 Gus Keri wrote --- > Yes. It can be done. yesterday, I saw a tent just above the wall and a man > was walking at the edge of the cliff, just few feet above the nests. If a > tent can be erected there, signs and roping also can be done. > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:22:05 -0400wrote --- > > Gus: Thank you for sharing some good news! Do you think that signs and > > roping could be put on top to prevent humans from compressing the > > nesting chambers? > > > > > > -- Original Message -- > > From: gusk...@zoho.com > > To: jose.ramirez.garof...@rutgers.edu > > Cc: nysbirds-l@cornell.edu > > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2022 1:46 PM > > Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Bank Swallow nests at Plumb Beach > > > > Great news! > > After I saw the photo of the nestling taken by another birder 3 days > > ago (I am sorry for not mentioning his/her name. I don't know if he/she > > wants the publicity), I had to go and check on the fate of this nestling > > and the nest. > > > > The moment I arrived, I noticed that the nest that was half occluded > > yesterday is wide open today. It made me happy to see that the swallow > > re-opened it. Looking inside, I could see the chick is alive and well. > > > > Few minutes later, an adult came and fed the chick and I recorded the > > feeding act on video. You can see it here: > > > > https://twitter.com/BirdBrklyn/status/1548720277110005762 > > > > To the best of my knowledge, this is the first ever Bank Swallow > > offspring that was born in Brooklyn. If this is inaccurate, please, let > > me know. > > > > The fact that this nest is wide open proved to me again that no bird > > will ever abandon its chicks permanently. They might abandon them for a > > short period of time when there is a danger around, but they always come > > back to care for them after the danger goes away. At least this is my > > experience with all the nests I have followed over the years. > > > > This Swallow couldn't let its chick be buried alive. > > > > As for the other nests, they are still occluded. Two of them totally > > occluded and the third is half occluded. My thinking that there are no > > living chicks inside. The swallows probably abandoned their eggs, and > > they might try laying eggs in another burrow, like Jose suggested. > > > > Good birding to all > > Gus Keri > > > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:30:59 -0400 Jose Ramirez-Garofalo > > wrote --- > >> > >> Gus, > >> > >> Unfortunately, that is a common occurrence with Bank Swallow > > colonies on the coast. There is really no way to adequately protect the > > nests unless the land management agency fences off the top of the > > dune/bluff. Disturbance to the front of the colony site can also a > > problem at a site like Plumb—though less-so than actual nest collapse. > > Since they aren’t protected (not even as a Species of Special Concern > > despite their widespread declines in NYS/the northeast), it isn’t likely > > that targeted measures will be undertaken for the swallows there. > >> > >> The good news is that they are adept at re-nesting, and will > > sometimes nest in drainpipes like Northern Rough-winged Swallows. We are > > pretty late in the season for them, but it isn’t out of the question. > >> > >> Cheers- > >> José > >> > >> -- > >> José R. Ramírez-Garofalo > >> Pronouns: He/Him/His > >> PhD Student > >> Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources > >> Rutgers University > >> 14 College Farm Road, > >> New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 > >> > >> > >> From: Gus Keri > >> Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:52 PM > >> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Bank Swallow nests at Plumb Beach > >> To: Birding alert, NYSBirds, Birding alert > >> > >> > >> Updates on these nests: > >> Today, the third nest was totally occluded and the fourth one is > > half-occluded, and I anticipate it to be gone by the end of the day. > >> The
