[nysbirds-l] Inwood Hill Park, W-w Scoter still here; March 8, 2014

The male White-winged Scoter is still present on the ship canal at the north end of Inwood Hill Park (8:45 am). It is in the area just east of the Henry Hudson Bridge where it has been for the last few days. Also present were 13 Canvasbacks, including the leucistic male present since March 6, three

[nysbirds-l] Black-headed Gull at Sag Pond

Seth Ausubel and I are looking at a Black-headed Gull at Sagaponack Pond right now. Good Birding, Corey Finger Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubsc

[nysbirds-l] Pink-footed Goose at Merritt's Pond - Yes

Ben Cacace's posting of yesterday's NYC Area RBA Report was enough for me to not start painting our kitchen set, which I sanded yesterday, while ? found the above ! Once there, (~1015) it didn't take long to find the Pink-footed, which was on the far side (looking from between the 1st & 2nd houses

[nysbirds-l] Ross's Goose - Southold (Suffolk Co.)

This morning I observed a Ross's Goose in a farm field along the north side of CR-48 just west of Horton's Avenue in Southold. The bird was located at the far north end of the field and viewing was less than ideal and too distant to rule out hybrid. I returned later around 11:00 AM to find the R

[nysbirds-l] Good Birds on Eastern Long Island

Corey Finger and had a good day birding eastern Long Island today. We started at Shinnecock Inlet where there was a female KING EIDER among 310 or so Common Eiders in the bay. An almost all white SNOWY OWL was along Dune Road. We then went to Further Lane in East Hampton where 3 GREATER WHITE

[nysbirds-l] Tackapausha Nature Preserve, Seaford

Hi Everyone, My daughter wanted to go to Tackapausha to see her "baby owl friend" (actually a Screech Owl) in the exhibit building and then later decided she also wanted to explore the trails and see the ducks at the pond. (of course I didn't object) We didn't see much on the trails: just one or

[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 3/8 (+ links: non-NY pelagics)

Saturday, 8 March, 2014 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y.C. As noted in a post to this list earlier this week, the feeders in the Ramble are not the only site to check for some of the birds that have been seen (most often) recently there ... a look at the feeders this a.m. was fine, with sig