RE: [nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret- Mecox Rd - yes

[Shaibal Mitra]

In addition to their obvious relevance for year-listers, I suspect the Cattle 
Egrets in Brooklyn and at Mecox are nudging birders' memories of other, similar 
patterns of occurrence. These birds' simultaneous appearance demonstrates again 
the tendency of unusual birds to occur in bunches--and very often with no 
obvious weather mechanism "driving" them from where they were to where they are 
now.

When Rob Jett reported a Cattle Egret in Brooklyn in November 2009--

http://citybirder.blogspot.com/2009/11/november-madness.html

--I suggested that the followup oughtn't merely be a re-check of Floyd Bennett 
Field, but rather an immediate search of the fields at Mecox, 90 miles to the 
east. My reasoning was that Cattle Egrets had co-occurred in 2008 on Staten 
Island and at Mecox, and that a Cattle Egret at Mecox the year before that had, 
indirectly, helped to prompt one of the most frenzied bouts of rarity-finding 
that anyone could remember--

http://www.nybirds.org/Publications/KB58no1_HowWeAllGoBirding.pdf

The upshot in November 2009 was that Pat Lindsay went ahead and checked Mecox 
the day after Rob's Brooklyn bird, showing off good measures of daring and 
style in her chosen mode of bird-chasing. She duly discovered a Cattle Egret 
precisely where she expected to find it.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore



Washington 
Monthly
 magazine ranks the College of Staten Island as one of “America’s 
Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges”

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret- Mecox Rd - yes

[Shaibal Mitra]

In addition to their obvious relevance for year-listers, I suspect the Cattle 
Egrets in Brooklyn and at Mecox are nudging birders' memories of other, similar 
patterns of occurrence. These birds' simultaneous appearance demonstrates again 
the tendency of unusual birds to occur in bunches--and very often with no 
obvious weather mechanism driving them from where they were to where they are 
now.

When Rob Jett reported a Cattle Egret in Brooklyn in November 2009--

http://citybirder.blogspot.com/2009/11/november-madness.html

--I suggested that the followup oughtn't merely be a re-check of Floyd Bennett 
Field, but rather an immediate search of the fields at Mecox, 90 miles to the 
east. My reasoning was that Cattle Egrets had co-occurred in 2008 on Staten 
Island and at Mecox, and that a Cattle Egret at Mecox the year before that had, 
indirectly, helped to prompt one of the most frenzied bouts of rarity-finding 
that anyone could remember--

http://www.nybirds.org/Publications/KB58no1_HowWeAllGoBirding.pdf

The upshot in November 2009 was that Pat Lindsay went ahead and checked Mecox 
the day after Rob's Brooklyn bird, showing off good measures of daring and 
style in her chosen mode of bird-chasing. She duly discovered a Cattle Egret 
precisely where she expected to find it.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore



Washington 
Monthlyhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/americas_bestbangforthebuck_co039461.php
 magazine ranks the College of Staten Island as one of “America’s 
Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges”

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2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L
3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html

Please submit your observations to eBird:
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