Today a FOS American Oystercatcher was east of the Ponquogue Bridge near Shinnecock, Suffolk Co. Although they overwinter regularly around Jones Inlet, I haven't seen one at this location since the fall.
In Riverhead, a Red-necked Grebe was just west of the Roadhouse Pizza joint along the Peconic River. Mike Cooper Ridge, LI NY Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2015, at 11:29 AM, "editcon...@aol.com" <editcon...@aol.com> wrote: > Sorry - meant to add this to the thread. > > NYBG has been frozen, as much of the NYC area. Our crabapples and any other > fruit/seed producing trees have been stripped bare with some strands left. If > the grosbeak over wintered at the zoo there would have been more available > food. > > In the last two weeks NYBG had a weak migration of grackles, red winged > blackbirds and rusty blackbirds. > > The earliest record I have of a grosbeak at NYBG is mid -April from 1998 > which was a very warm winter and early spring. > > Debbie Becker > > > > > > On Mar 14, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Hugh McGuinness <hdmcguinn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To further support the over-wintering hypothesis, we would predict that if > this were a migrant, there would currently be a spate of records along the > Gulf Coast. Checking e-bird, there are exactly two March 2015 records for the > species, with none in the Caribbean. > > Hugh > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Joe DiCostanzo <jdic...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >> As Gabriel Willow and Tom Fiore have already pointed out, given the >> proximity of the New York Botanical Garden to the Bronx Zoo where a female >> Rose-breasted Grosbeak was reported on December 28 and February 17, this is >> far more likely to be that same individual than an early arrival from the >> species’ Neotropical wintering area. Though extremely rare in winter >> locally, the species is not unprecedented at that season. I found an >> immature male Rose-breasted in the southern part of the Botanical Garden, >> across the road from the Bronx Zoo on the CBC 32 years ago on December 26, >> 1982. In the species account in Bull’s Birds of New York State (1998), Bob >> McKinney reports : “… there are many CBC reports and many other records of >> individuals persisting for several weeks or longer with food available at >> feeders.” In his earlier Birds of New York State (1974), John Bull says the >> species has been recorded during the winter months, but that he wondered >> about the possibility of confusion with Black-headed Grosbeak. However, he >> does cite two mid-winter undoubted occurrences: 1) a bird at a feeder in >> Dunkirk, December 1965 to late January 1966, seen by many, and 2) a male >> filmed at a feeder in Poughkeepsie December 25, 1966 to January 12, 1967. In >> some neighboring states, Dick Veit and Wayne Peterson in Birds of >> Massachusetts (1993) record a handful of winter records and a few early >> March records [also likely to be over-wintering birds]; and Joan Walsh, et >> al. in Birds of New Jersey (1999) after reporting four CBC records state: >> “There are also a few mid-winter reports, mainly of birds appearing at >> feeders.” >> >> >> >> While the above records show that the species has overwintered in the >> Northeast on rare occasions, it is truly remarkable that this individual >> apparently managed the feat in the at times brutally cold and snowy winter >> we have just gone through! >> >> >> >> Joe DiCostanzo >> >> www.greatgullisland.org >> >> www.inwoodbirder.blogspot.com >> >> >> >> From: bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu >> [mailto:bounce-118934956-3714...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sharron >> Crocker >> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 6:37 PM >> To: Birds - nysbirds-l@cornell.edu >> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak >> >> >> >> >> >> I've been told that this is an early sighting. 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