[nysbirds-l] NYC: East River, Sun. 15-Jan-2012 incl. Red-tailed Hawk, Red-throated Loon

Date: Sunday, 15 January 2012 (2:40p-4:25p) Location: Manhattan - East River Esplanade 90th St. to 107th St. Pier Reported by: Ben Cacace Weather for 15-Jan for Central Park (2:51p-4:51p) < http://bit.ly/AoI4yy >: - Conditions: Clear - Temperature: 23.0 to 23.0 F (Windchill 12 to 11 F) - Wind dire

[nysbirds-l] Lesser BB Gull Fort Tilden Q Co

A lesser black backed gull continues in Queens county at the "Silver Gull" at the west end of Fort Tilden Arie Gilbert North Babylon, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSb

[nysbirds-l] Passerine Flight?

I've known strong cold fronts in January to trigger movements of hawks, Common Grackles, and winter finches. I can't say I've noticed it for run of the mill passerines. But maybe there is a point in time when half hardies give up on that. Considering how few passerines I've been seeing at Jones Bea

[nysbirds-l] Bronx White-fronted Goose and Lenoir Pine Warbler

The White-fronted Goose continues at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and was seen this morning during the waterfowl count from the small golf bridge in the northern swampier section of the lake. The drab wintering Pine Warbler also contiues to visit the feeders at the Lenoir Nature Center in Y

[nysbirds-l] Fwd: [NJBIRDS] Common Chaffinch update, Hunterdon County

Re: the rfi for this bird: as stated below, the homeowners have graciously allowed people to try for this bird tomorrow, Mon 1/16 even though it is a holiday, so if you were unable to try other weekdays and are off tomorrow, it would not be violating the request for no weekend visits. Please

[nysbirds-l] Greater White-fronted Goose, Hauppauge, NY

At 1:30PM today (01/15), there was an immature Greater White-fronted Goose at the Hauppauge High School (Suffolk County). It is currently feeding with about 150 Canada Geese on the soccer/lacrosse fields bordering route 111 (Townline Road) and Lincoln Blvd. Entrance to the high school is from Li

[nysbirds-l] Chaffinch

Thank you for all your responces so far on the chaffinch. Tomorrow (Monday) being a holiday never occured to us. We feel that weekend rules would probably apply. So we will be putting off our trip until the next available weekday to respect the homeowners wishes. Thanks, Bob Carillo -- NY

Re: [nysbirds-l] Any information on the NJ Chaffinch

See the NJ Birding Posts, for example: http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NJBD.html#1326469502 Recall the policy of NO WEEKEND VISITS. Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY --- On Sun, 1/15/12, tahoe...@optonline.net wrote: From: tahoe...@optonline.net Subject: [nysbirds-l] Any information on the NJ

[nysbirds-l] Iceland Gull - Kingston

While out shopping for wings for the Giants Game today at 12:30 there was an adult Iceland Gull flying over the Shop Rite parking lot in Kingston. Jim Clinton Jr -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.N

[nysbirds-l] Any information on the NJ Chaffinch

My wife and I were interested in any information that could be provided about the chaffinch. We planned to go to NJ tomorrow morning to try to see it, but have failed to see any recent posts about it. We were wondering if it was still around as of Friday 1/13. We will be respectful of the gu

[nysbirds-l] The New York Botanical Garden 1/14

A cold and windy day brought out 18 birders on our weekly Saturday bird walk at The New York Botanical Garden. We had a nice selection of birds, but noticeably absent were our resident great horned owls. The male was last seen on Tuesday so we are hopeful they found a new nesting area and are, i

[nysbirds-l] Cow Meadow Park, Sat. 14-Jan-2012 incl. PF, NH, Gr. Egret

Date: Saturday, 14 January 2012 (11:30a-1:40p) Location: Cow Meadow Park, Freeport - Nassau County Reported by: Ben Cacace Weather for 14-Jan-2012 for JFK Airport (10:51a-1:51p) < http://bit.ly/wxneXu >: - Conditions: Mostly Cloudy to Overcast - Temperature: 32.0 to 33.1 F (Windchill 20 - 21 F) -

[nysbirds-l] Pacific Loon - Jones Inlet (Nassau Co.)

NYSbirders, I just read a report of Pacific Loon at Jones Inlet (reported via the Cape May text message RBA system). Bob Horton texted that the bird was seen yesterday, 1/15. I have no further details, but thought it would be good to give a heads up to birders in the area. Cheers, Tom -- Tom Jo

[nysbirds-l] Gyr Location update

Here is what Carl Safina had to say about where he saw the Gyr yesterday at Jones Beach (Nassau Co.), I suspect that before we saw it, it went from Zach’s, where I suspect it was the cause of the mass uprising of Brant that we saw (but did not see a raptor then) up the parkway, where we first saw