This afternoon Vicki Bustamante found a handsome male *WESTERN TANAGER* in
her yard on the east side of Lake Montauk (Suffolk Co.). She called a number
of birders in the area and after some waiting, the tanager reappeared and
gave excellent looks. The location is at the top of Big Reed Path, a stee
Thank you to everyone who responded on and off the list. The general
consensus is that it is not an accipiter at all, but rather a juvenile
Red-shouldered Hawk. My bad. I responded to Tom Carrolan that we had
actually spotted a beautiful adult red-shouldered later in the day.
These adults h
I think it looks like an immature red shouldered hawk, with streaking up to the
head.
Kyle Bardwell
From: Rob Jett
To: NYSBirds
Sent: Sat, January 29, 2011 7:22:18 PM
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Brooklyn hawks and accipiter ID question
Today Heydi Lopes and I birded
Looks more like a young Red-tailed Hawk to me, the tail doesn't look
proportionally long enough for an accipiter and the white spotting on the back
in common among 1st year Red-tails.
Will Raup
Albany, NY
> From: citybir...@earthlink.net
> To: NYSBirds-L@cornell.edu
> Subject: [nysbirds-l
Today Heydi Lopes and I birded some of Brooklyn's coast. We had
intended on focusing our efforts on gulls and waterfowl. By the end of
the day, however, it had turned into more of a raptor-fest. We
finished our day with 8 species of raptor and a question mark next to
a possible ninth.
The
It was a winter wonderland at NYBG today. Highlights include:
Rusty black birds-4
Great Horned owl-1
Song sparrow-1
Fox sparrow-1
White throated sparrows-many
Juncos-30+
Chickadees- 20+
Tufted tit mouse- 3
Mockingbird-1
Cardinals-7
Blue jays-6
White breasted nuthatch -1
American Robins-5
Red bell
The last few days, with light winds and partly overcast skies, have been ideal
for viewing perched and flying raptors. On the Jones barrier strip yesterday we
had three Rough-legged Hawks, a dark morph bird perched just south of Bay
Parkway roughly opposite Field 10, and light morph birds at Tob
Dune Rd. was extremely quiet this morning with just a Belted Kingfisher and
a Northern Harrier making a presence until I got to the Ponquogue Bridge and
found a Merlin perched on a LIPA pole at the old Ponquogue Bridge Park. It
preened for awhile before taking off. Photos and videos can be seen h
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* January 28, 2011
* NYNY1101.28
- Birds Mentioned:
Trumpeter Swan+
Common Murre+
Thick-billed Murre+
VARIED THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Wood Duck
King Eider
Harlequin Duck
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
