[nysbirds-l] Counting underway at Franklin Mt. Hawkwatch

Counting has begun for the 21th consecutive season at the Franklin Mt. Hawkwatch, sponsored by the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society, near Oneonta, NY. Anyone interested in receiving the Franklin Mt. daily reports via email can do so by subscribing to OSBirds at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osb

[nysbirds-l] Night Flight Call List: NFC-L

Greetings! This message is to announce the creation of a relatively new email list for the discussion of nocturnal flight calls of migratory birds. NFC-L is an email list hosted by Cornell University, with the primary purpose to provide an effective electronic forum for experienced birders to

[nysbirds-l] 8/19- JBWR+, American Avocet, Wilson's Phalarope, AGP etc.

This morning I walked up the east side of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and also stopped in briefly at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn on my way home. The highlight was of course the AMERICAN AVOCET on the East Pond, but there were several other notable observations: East Pond:

[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay & environs, Queens/B'klyn, NYC 8/19

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 - Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens County & Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn (Kings County), (& their environs in) N.Y. City I birded the (Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge's) East Pond's north end at first light thru about high tide this early morning. There were easi

[nysbirds-l] hook mt hawkwatch

We opened the 2009 fall hawkwatch at Hook mountain in Nyack, NY today with a handful of migrants. The first bird of the season was an osprey at about 8:20 this morning. Altogether we had 8 birds heading south: 2 osprey 1 northern harrier 3 sharp shins 1 adult bald eagle 1 immature broadwing not

[nysbirds-l] also Avocets & Marbled Godwit nearby (in N.J., & CT)

Wednesday, 19 August 2009 Interestingly, Connecticut had an American Avocet & a Marbled Godwit today, reported here: http://lists.ctbirding.org/pipermail/ctbirds_lists.ctbirding.org/Week- of-Mon-20090817/014632.html Less unusual but worth noting, New Jersey had 2 avocets in one place, repo

[nysbirds-l] Brown Pelican - Adirondacks

I'm up on Fourth Lake between Old Forge and Eagle Bay for the week with limited internet access. I do not know if anyone has reported this earlier but this afternoon there was a Brown Pelican on the lake. I got someone to take a picture of it and will watch to see if it is still around tomorrow. I

[nysbirds-l] Cupsogue Co. Pk. & Pikes Beach, Suffolk Co.

Today, on a rising tide, Andy Baldelli & I had a fair number of birds, without seeing anything too special. (13) species of shorebirds included a juvenile Greater Yellowlegs, a Western Willet, approx. (30) Red Knot, (5) Dunlin and a Pectoral Sandpiper. Among the (5) species of terns seen were (3