[nysbirds-l] Varied Thrush, etc., Central Park, NYC 3/2

2011-03-02 Thread Tom Fiore
Wednesday, 2 March, 2011 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City The VARIED THRUSH continues but has also been wandering a bit, found (after a good while searching) on the east side of the East Drive and north of the E. 79 Street transverse road. While this is actually a rather short distance

[nysbirds-l] 3/2 Pine Island Geese: Canada, Snow and Greater White-fronted

2011-03-02 Thread Curt McDermott
With Rob Stone's permission, I am forwarding his earlier post to the Mearns Bird Club, to the state list as well. After his post, in addition to the below mentioned Snow Geese, he had an additional flock of 2500-3000 Snow Geese at Oil City Rd., in Pine Island. Good Birding, Curt

[nysbirds-l] hawk migration

2011-03-02 Thread Spsdmd
i headed up to hook mt. in nyack this morning to open the spring hawk watch season. even at this early date i had 4 red shoulders, 2 coopers hawks, 3 sharpshins and a harrier moving north from 9:30-12:15. in addition were the usual local black and turkey vultures, red tails and peregrine,

[nysbirds-l] Early PIPING PLOVER and other Goods at Montauk/Amagansett/Bridgehampton

2011-03-02 Thread Carl Starace
Hello All, We took a ride out to Montauk this morning primarily to try for the Eared Grebe seen at Ditch Plains. As we were passing Kellis Pond along Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton an adult Bald Eagle cruised over the treetops and scattered Canada's in all directions. At Camp Hero we ran

[nysbirds-l] Orange County - Wallkill NWR

2011-03-02 Thread vanhaas
Today around noon, Rob Stone, Bob Cotter (?) and I were at the Wallkill NWR Liberty Marsh watching an abundance of birds when I noticed a huge flock of Snow Geese just east of the observation area. Rob went to try to view them from another location while Bob and I walked out the trail

[nysbirds-l] Orange County - Wallkill NWR

2011-03-02 Thread vanhaas
Today around noon, Rob Stone, Bob Cotter (?) and I were at the Wallkill NWR Liberty Marsh watching an abundance of birds when I noticed a huge flock of Snow Geese just east of the observation area. Rob went to try to view them from another location while Bob and I walked out the trail

[nysbirds-l] Early PIPING PLOVER and other Goods at Montauk/Amagansett/Bridgehampton

2011-03-02 Thread Carl Starace
Hello All, We took a ride out to Montauk this morning primarily to try for the Eared Grebe seen at Ditch Plains. As we were passing Kellis Pond along Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton an adult Bald Eagle cruised over the treetops and scattered Canada's in all directions. At Camp Hero we ran

[nysbirds-l] hawk migration

2011-03-02 Thread Spsdmd
i headed up to hook mt. in nyack this morning to open the spring hawk watch season. even at this early date i had 4 red shoulders, 2 coopers hawks, 3 sharpshins and a harrier moving north from 9:30-12:15. in addition were the usual local black and turkey vultures, red tails and peregrine,

[nysbirds-l] 3/2 Pine Island Geese: Canada, Snow and Greater White-fronted

2011-03-02 Thread Curt McDermott
With Rob Stone's permission, I am forwarding his earlier post to the Mearns Bird Club, to the state list as well. After his post, in addition to the below mentioned Snow Geese, he had an additional flock of 2500-3000 Snow Geese at Oil City Rd., in Pine Island. Good Birding, Curt

[nysbirds-l] Varied Thrush, etc., Central Park, NYC 3/2

2011-03-02 Thread Tom Fiore
Wednesday, 2 March, 2011 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City The VARIED THRUSH continues but has also been wandering a bit, found (after a good while searching) on the east side of the East Drive and north of the E. 79 Street transverse road. While this is actually a rather short distance