[nysbirds-l] Queens County Christmas Bird Count
The Queens County Christmas Bird Count will be held this year on Sunday, December 18. As always, we would love for you to join the count. Each of the last several years we have had more participants than the year before and we would like to continue to grow the count. We have space for birders of all ages and skill levels. Drop me an email by Sunday, December 4, if you haven't participated before and would like to participate. If you participated last year, reach out to your sector leader if you want to participate in the same sector again. I hope to see you out in the field (in Queens!) and at the compilation dinner after the count on the 18th. Good Birding, Corey Finger -- 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] Queens County Christmas Bird Count
Our count was held on Sunday the 19th, and the final tally is 112 species, which is very good for our count. The most unusual sightings we had were Northern Waterthrush in Kissena Park, Common Raven (suddenly not so unexpected in the NYC area anymore), and Semipalmated Plover. Ian Resnick, compiler -- 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] Queens County Christmas Bird Count
The Queens County Christmas Bird Count was held yesterday, Sunday, 15 December. A total of 44 birders covered our circle for the day. We had pretty good weather for the count, with temperatures ranging from just below the freezing mark to just over 40 and no precipitation at all. We totaled 118 species, which ties our "modern" record and is just 6 short of our all time best. (We'll have 119 if NYSARC accepts the Common Linnet which is still hanging in there at Kissena Corridor Park but what are the chances of that?) We also have, so far, a single count-week bird. Highlights included King Eider, Nashville Warbler, Palm Warbler, 2 Glaucous Gulls, Marsh Wren, Common Raven and 5 Snowy Owls. Misses didn't include many terribly obvious birds, with Red-breasted Nuthatch probably being the worst. We also missed snipe, Common Eider (though we got it for count week), American Bittern, all of the winter finches excepting goldfinch, and Eurasian Wigeon, though none of those birds are a huge surprise as a miss. Mostly we got all of the expected birds though some we only got by the skin of our teeth. White-winged Scoter, Merlin, Razorbill, Short-eared Owl, Fish Crow, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, and Orange-crowned Warbler were all found as individuals and the Fish Crow was only identified as such because it looked small and responded to a Fish Crow tape with its own "caa-ing." We had ten species in quadruple digits. They were: Snow Goose, 2276; Brant, 2314; Canada Goose, 3597; Mallard, 1188; Greater Scaup, 6302; Ring-billed Gull, 4251; Herring Gull, 1441; Rock Pigeon, 1616; European Starling, 2081; and Common Grackle, 2821. Our Black-capped Chickadee count was 30 and Tufted Titmouse was 22. The former was pretty much only found in areas where they breed so it looks like we did not have a migratory influx. The latter is slightly less than the average for recent years. Because this is my first year compiling I don't have all of the data from previous years organized in such a way that I can quickly figure out what species for which we had high counts. Hopefully, I'll have that information at my fingertips next time - I just have to spend more time on spreadsheets when I'd rather be out birding. Many thanks to all who participated, especially Mary Normandia who stepped in as a sector leader at the last second and Jean Loscalzo who coordinated a large group of birders in the Forest Park sector. Here's hoping we get 50 participants and 120 species next year! Good (Christmas Bird Count) Birding, Corey Finger http://1birds.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Queens County Christmas Bird Count
The Queens County Christmas Bird Count will take place on Sunday, 14 December. We had great participation last year and hope to continue to build on that experience. With a plethora of parks to cover we can always use more participation. Please send me an email at 1birdsblog...@gmail.com if you would like to participate. Good (Christmas Bird Count) Birding, Corey Finger -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Queens County Christmas Bird Count Results
The Queens County Christmas Bird Count was held yesterday in strong northwest winds. Despite the non-stop gusts, 61 participants (a record for us!) detected 33,337 individuals of 118 species. We set high counts for a surprising number of species (number in parenthesis is the previous high count): Canada Goose - 6,869 (5,674) Ring-necked Duck - 111 (49) Lesser Scaup - 757 (649) Wilson's Snipe - 5 (3) Razorbill - 12 (1) Merlin - 9 (3) Peregrine Falcon 11 (9) Common Raven 9 (5) Carolina Wren 56 (47) Chipping Sparrow 33 (9) Some of these, like Carolina Wren, are likely attributable to more observers. But Common Ravens, like with the Brooklyn count, are genuinely increasing. Perhaps the falcons were observed more easily because the high winds but lack of precipitation made observation easier? Some good birds for the count included American Oystercatcher (5th record), Eastern Screech-Owl (6th record), and House Wren (9th record). Painful misses included Northern Pintail, Pied-billed Grebe, Ring-necked Pheasant, Brown-headed Cowbird, and Rusty Blackbird. Especially painful was missing the Ash-throated Flycatcher that had been present in Bayswater Park until at least Friday. At least we got it as a count-week bird! Thanks to everyone who made this count a success, especially Ian Resnick who made sure to pick up the pizza, Nancy Tognan who did the data entry at the compilation, and all of the sector leaders who made sure their squads were in order and prepared as I was out of the country for a couple weeks leading up to the count. Good (Christmas) Bird Counting, Corey Finger -- 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] Queens County Christmas Bird Count Results
The Queens County Christmas Bird Count was held on Sunday, 18 December. A total of roughly 60 participants (still waiting on some final effort info from some sectors) found 28,701 individuals of 126 species, one of the best counts we've had. An additional 5 species were seen during count week. Highlights included: *3 New Birds for the Count (day)* First record of Forster's Tern (or any tern if you don't count Black Skimmer) - found by Richard Aracil in the Rockaways First (count day) record of Black Vulture, with four, in the Alley Pond Sector (though we had them during count week in recent years) First (count day) record for Prairie Warbler, at Baisley Pond Park (we have had it once during count week before) *Rare-for-our-count birds* Laughing Gull, 1, in the Rockaways, surprisingly our 26th occurrence Semipalmated Plover, 1, in Atlantic Beach, our 12th occurrence *High Counts* Wood Duck - 25, thanks to the growing year-round population at Kissena Park Redhead - 64, bested old record by two! (bulk were at Baisley Pond) Common Loon - 160 - More than doubling our old best of 74 (did we never have good movement observed on a count day before?) Double-crested Cormorant - 315 - topping the 226 last year Bald Eagle - 6 - Exactly double our best Red-bellied Woodpecker - 127 - previous best 92 (Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers were also near their high counts for us so this is probably at least partially effort-related) Blue Jay - 485 - beats previous best by 40 (effort? or genuinely a lot around?) Tufted Titmouse - 293 - nearly tripling our previous best (definitely far more than usual!) White-breasted Nuthatch - 101 - previous 79 (effort and more than usual around?) Nashville Warbler - 3 - beats our previous high of 2 Orange-crowned Warbler - 9 - beats previous high of 7 Misses and other lowlights Canvasback - World's Fair Marina did not come through this year though we did get it for count week Owls - we only had one Great Horned and one Eastern Screech. No other owls at all. Thanks to everyone who participated! Good (CBC) Birding and Happy Holidays to all! Sincerely, Corey Finger -- 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] Queens County Christmas Bird Count Results
The Queens County Christmas Bird County was held on Sunday. Forty-six participants found 43,235 individuals of 123 species, one off our all time high of 124, which has been done twice. (Our report to Audubon will have 124 species but we're not counting introduced bobwhites as a "good" bird.) Thanks to all that participated and made this count one of our best yet, especially to Nancy Tognan who helped deal with technical difficulties at the count dinner, and to the sector leaders who marshaled their forces admirably and came up with some great birds! Highlights included: Hooded Warbler, first ever on the count, an adult male at the wastewater treatment plant in Atlantic Beach Western Tanager, 3rd occurrence (and 2nd year in a row!), long-staying bird at Crocheron Park Yellow-breasted Chat, 3rd occurrence, long-staying bird at Crocheron Park Blue-winged Teal, 7th occurrence on the count, at Jamaica Bay American Bittern, 2, at Edgemere and Jamaica Bay Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, 3rd occurrence on the count, in the far southeastern Rockaways Bald Eagle, 2, 7th occurrence, though almost all have been in last ten years Razorbill, 1, 6th occurrence, Atlantic Beach Lesser Black-backed Gull, 6th occurrence, Edgemere Eastern Screech-Owl, 5th occurrence Eastern Phoebe, Greentree, 11th occurrence Indigo Bunting, Greentree, 2nd occurrence Vesper Sparrow, dunes at Atlantic Beach, tough in recent decades High Counts were set for quite a few species, a function of more eyes looking and of a very smooth ocean with virtually no wind all day, which helped in seeing and identifying even distant birds on the water: Redhead, 62, all but 2 at Baisley Pond Park Ring-necked Duck, 49, all at Baisley Pond Park Long-tailed Duck, 227 Red-throated Loon, 192 (previous high was 46) Great Blue Heron, 66 (tied our high) Cooper's Hawk, 20 Great Horned Owl, 6 (doubled our high count) Snowy Owl, 5 (tied our high set 4 years ago) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 19 Hairy Woodpecker, 20 Blue Jay, 445 Fish Crow, 110, (more than doubled high count) Common Raven, 4 (7th occurrence) American Robin, 759 Chipping Sparrow, 9 Northern Cardinal, 254 Common Grackle, 4626 Great Saves Included: Cedar Waxwing, 3 by the Douglaston crew Common Merganser, 5, also by Douglaston Winter Wren, 4, by the Valley Stream squad Great Cormorant, 1, by the Rockaways set Ring-necked Pheasant, also by the Rockaways Misses Included Common Eider Bonaparte's Gull Red-breasted Nuthatch Snow Bunting Pine Warbler all owls except for Great Horned, Screech, and Snowy all winter finches White-eyed Vireo, seen up to the day before at Charles Memorial Park, count week bird Lesser Yellowlegs, seen repeatedly up until late last week, count week bird Snowy Egret, seen Saturday in southeastern Rockaways, count week bird Wilson's Warbler seen regularly up until late last week at Crocheron Park, count week bird There is still not a definitive identification on the Orange-crowned Warbler / Macgillvary's Warbler that was seen at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It seems expert opinion is now slanting heavily towards possibly the brightest Orange-crowned Warbler ever and the bird was not found today. For counting purposes, it's one species either way because we somehow missed all the Orange-crowneds that had been around. If it's a Macgillvary's it would be new to the count and we'd have Orange-crowned as a count week bird. Good (Christmas Bird Count) Birding, Corey Finger -- 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] Queens County Christmas Bird Count Results
The Queens County Christmas Bird Count was held yesterday in suboptimal conditions but our hale and hearty birders performed admirably anyway, with 112 species recorded on count day. Our big misses were Killdeer, Pied-billed Grebe, Wilson's Snipe, Fish Crow, Eastern Towhee, and Northern Gannet. Good finds included the (reported to this listserv already) Pink-footed Goose in Lake Success (first for the count on count day), an Eastern Phoebe in Greentree, an Iceland Gull at Alley Pond Environmental Center, two Palm Warblers in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, and a Northern Saw-whet Owl in Charles Memorial Park. Also, Bald Eagles have returned to Willow Lake Preserve. Seven Orange-crowned Warblers is a new count high but most species numbers were depressed due to the very rough weather. On a more somber note the Rockaways party stumbled across a body in Bayswater Point State Park in far southeastern Queens, a most unwelcome first for the count. Thanks to everyone who participated, especially the new participants, several of whom were doing their first-ever Christmas Bird Counts, and the sector leaders, who soldiered on, in some cases with teams much-reduced by illness. And thanks to Nancy Tognan, Arie Gilbert, and Ian Resnick, who all did important work in making sure the compilation dinner ran smoothly. Good Birding, Corey Finger P.S. Next year's count will be on Sunday, 15 December. Mark your calendars! -- 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] Queens County Christmas Bird Count, Sunday Dec. 20th
The Queens County Bird Club will be conducting the 2009 Christmas Bird Count(CBC) of the areas in and around Queens on *Sunday, December 20th.** * *Volunteers are welcome! * Last year we counted 107 species and 72,000 individual birds. The day is capped with a celebratory dinner at a local restaurant. As with other CBC's, there is a participant fee of $5 to cover publication of the Count in *American Birds*. Feeder watchers are also encouraged to participate; they are also exempt from the participant fee. The Queens Count area is organized into eight geographic territories: 1. Atlantic Beach/Far Rockaway 2. Valley Stream/North Hills 3. Jamaica Bay, East of Cross Bay Blvd 4. Forest Park/Flushing Meadow Park South 5. Flushing (Kissena/Flushing Meadow North) 6. Coastal Flushing (Flushing Bay/Little Bay) 7. Alley Pond Park/Oakland Lake 8. Douglaston Marsh/Little Neck Bay Contact Count Compiler* Ian Resnick, , 917-626-9562* if you would like to participate. The CBC is part of a national citizen science tradition, now in its 110th years. And, it is lots of fun! All updates on our web site: http://queenscountybirdclub.org/ ** *Donna Schulman, Queens County Bird Club* -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Queens County Christmas Bird Count - Sunday, December 18
Birders, Are you looking to join an exciting Christmas Bird Count that has had two of its best years in terms of species in 2014 and 2015? Is the weekend before Christmas not busy enough for you? Does the best birding borough in New York City intrigue you? Then come on out and do the Queens County Christmas Bird Count! Last year we had Lark Sparrow, Snowy Owl, Clay-colored Sparrow, Bald Eagle, Cackling Goose, and American White Pelican. With your help we can find even better birds! If you are interested just drop me an email. We want the 2016 Queens County Christmas Bird Count to be better than ever! Good Birding, Corey Finger -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Queens County Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, 12/16
The Queens County Christmas Bird Count will be held this year on Sunday, 12/16. Come join one of the most exciting counts in New York State! Our compilation dinner will be held at 6PM at the Alley Pond Environmental Center. If you are interested in participating just drop me an email and we'll find you a group to go with. Good Birding, Corey Finger -- 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/ --
