[nysbirds-l] Massachusetts: Red-necked Stint 6/27

A report of Red-necked Stint from Blair Nikula, in Massachusetts: http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1277685181 Offers a reminder of what's possible this time of the early summer. Anyone out to Queens' Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge this week...? Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan

[nysbirds-l] Ward Pound Ridge Cliff Swallows

Cliff Swallows nested successfully at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in northern Westchester County in 2006 and 2007. Then in 2008 and 2009 they didn't, for whatever reason. So I hadn't been on the lookout for them this year, but I don't think I would have overlooked them. So it came as a suprise

[nysbirds-l] Alder Flycatcher at Calverton Ponds Preserve (Suffolk Co.)

An Alder Flycatcher was heard calling and seen briefly this morning at Big Sandy Pond at the Nature Conservancy's Calverton Ponds Preserve on Old River Road in Calverton. Big Sandy Pond is a coastal plain pond where water levels in the pond are solely dependent on groundwater elevation. Coastal