- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Dec 18, 2009
* NYNY0912.18
- Birds Mentioned:
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
TUNDRA SWAN
Great Egret
American Oyst
This is a summary of the Birdline reports for the week ending
December 16, 2009.
Report your sightings in the Hudson-Mohawk Region to birdl...@hmbc.net.
Seventy-one species were reported this week.
Most-reported birds:
Snow Goose - 7 migrating flocks including one of ~2000 birds plus a single.
A brutal but beautiful visit to Jones Beach and Point lookout was relatively
productive. Around nine, it was slow and absolutely freezing at the coast guard
station, with some Bonaparte's Gulls, a Horned Grebe, Great Cormorant and a
lone Eider being the most noteworthy birds there. Moving on to
No good light to shoot birds today with a camera, so I returned my old
hobby, bird watching.
Harriman State Park (silvermine area)
200 Plus Robins
100 Cedar Waxwings
Tree Sparrows'
and a single Barred Owl.
Further north on 7 lakes were large flocks of Red-winged blackbirds
more Robins, and Wa