Dear New York State Birders,
As many of you know, Plum Island,
off the tip of Orient Point, is an ecological gem, with over 190 species of
birds docmented utilizing the island for either breeding purposes or as a
migratory stopover site. Unfortunately, this 840 acre island is closer than
20 years ago I operated seven avian night flight call monitoring stations in a
transect across NY. This year I’ve been repeating the study and have been
posting call totals and species data by 8AM to
http://www.oldbird.org/Data/Daily.htm. Cumulative weekly data is now available
every Tuesday
Good morning NYS birders!
This is just a friendly reminder to be sure to try to include the location of
your bird sightings, such that anyone glancing at the eList postings for the
first time can easily figure out where, exactly, the sighting occurred.
There are persons who are either new to
While boating in the South Oyster Bay area, Anne-Marie
Brzezinskiphotographed a pair of AMERICAN AVOCETS in the marshes south
of Seaford
(Nassau Co.). The birds were seen on the 16th and 23rd September and are
conceivably still in the area. Land-based observers in the Jones Beach area
might want
Yesterday there was a very big movement of Tree Swallows from the NE into
the very brisk SW wind on Ram Island Causeway, which is on the NE tip of
Shelter Island. There were no migrants to be found anywhere.
This morning, as in the last four days a female Red-breasted Nuthatch was
in my bird bath.
Good morning NYS birders!
This is just a friendly reminder to be sure to try to include the location of
your bird sightings, such that anyone glancing at the eList postings for the
first time can easily figure out where, exactly, the sighting occurred.
There are persons who are either new to
Dear New York State Birders,
As many of you know, Plum Island,
off the tip of Orient Point, is an ecological gem, with over 190 species of
birds docmented utilizing the island for either breeding purposes or as a
migratory stopover site. Unfortunately, this 840 acre island is closer than
