It apparently needs to be pointed out to anyone searching for the Northern
Shrike that the grasslands at Floyd Bennett Field are a protected area.
Visitors are forbidden to walk across them. You can read about the Grassland
Restoration and Management Project here:
http://www.nycaudubon.org/proj
Had an unmistakable Turkey Vulture fly above my house today on the Ridgewood-
Bushwick border around 1:30pm today.
Christina Wilkinson
Ridgewood, Queens
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* New York
* Syracuse
* December 19, 2011
* NYSY 12.19.11
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
December 12, 2010 - December 19, 2011
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Comple
Ellen sent this email to me, but subsequently asked me to post it to the
list. I still wonder if there remain two Chats and two Ovenbirds. A
challenge to anyone who wants to try to figure that out:)
Ardith Bondi
Original Message
Subject:Bryant Park - YB Chat 12/17/11
Although “squawking” is an ambiguous term subject to a whole multitude of
interpretations, I’ll suggest that you consider a Long-eared Owl as a possible
source of the sounds you heard. Besides simple “hoots”, they can also make
several sounds that come across as being quite bizarre in the night
Monday, 19 December, 2011 -
As much for the report itself as well as a reminder that a lot of
birds of this special interest may be found at this time, and for this
species just have been in a neighboring state very near a NY state
border, is the N.J. sighting of a Townsend's Solitaire (alon
Clinton Cove Park, New York, US-NY
Dec 18, 2011 1:47 PM - 2:47 PM
1.2 mile(s)
11 species (+1 other taxa)
This park is on the Hudson River off Pier 96 north of 54th St. in
Manhattan. The SWAMP SPARROW sighting is the only one on Manhattan for the
month of Dec/2011 so may be helpful for the CBC.
He
You win some, you lose some. I rarely chase birds, but these two seemed too
close to ignore, so I biked down to Redhook in the early morning cold
yesterday, and hunted up and down the shore behind the Fairway, and over along
Erie Basin, but saw no sign of the Red Phalarope that had thoughtfully