[nysbirds-l] Work first, then play...makes for a great day !

Today, Earth Day was celebrated at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge, where the weather encouraged participants to wear short-sleeved shirts, or even just T-shirts ! The Eastern L.I.Audubon Society was one of the sponsoring organizations (under the leadership of the QWR) and had the fun task of leading th

[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 5/1

Sunday, first of May 2016At the reservoir of Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) a breeding-plumaged Horned Grebe remains, present since at least Friday (and belated thanks to Central Park birder Junko Suzuki for first alerting those with a Manhattan bird-alert twitter-feed, as well as to Debbie Be

[nysbirds-l] Central Pk interesting BT Green hybrid warbler

Alexis Lamek found what appears to be a BT Green X Hermit hybrid. All yellow face, dark back with no green, 2 wing bars, black triangle on throat and no streaking on flanks. Singing BTGreen song. Tripletts Bridge area near 77th St CPW exit. Observed at a distance for 30+ min. Now trying to relo

[nysbirds-l] Turtle Cove- Pelham Bay Park, Bronx

“Bronx" Brendan Keogh and I walked through the Turtle Cove area of Pelham Bay Park yesterday. Although there was nothing too exciting, it seems more species are finally filtering in. It was nice to see several Yellow Warblers and some Killdeer chicks, newly hatched. 5 Yellowlegs (most likely

[nysbirds-l] Inwood Cerulean Warbler

There is currently a male CERULEAN WARBLER working the east ridge trail in Inwood Hill Park. Hard to see, the bird is however singing clearly and repeatedly. That aside, diversity and overall numbers are disappointingly low as compared to many other locations throughout the city. Good birding,

[nysbirds-l] East Patchogue and Bellport Village Birds

On my morning run I noticed three (3) species of swallows hawking insects over Robinsons pond (north side of S. Country Road) - Northern Rough-winged, Tree and Barn. Additionally, there was a lone Glossy Ibis on the east side of the pond mixed among several species of gulls including a few breedin

[nysbirds-l] Hermit Warbler Central Park

Re. Karen Fung's earlier post. Having had time to reflect on the bird found by Alexis Lamek and also seen by Karen and I - I believe that this bird is a Hermit Warbler singing an odd BTGreen-like song rather than some kind of hybrid. Plumage was good for Hermit (hybrids usually have something

Re: [nysbirds-l] Hermit Warbler Central Park

To add to Anthony's comments, there are no *documented* cases of Hermit x Black-throated Green hybrids that I am aware of (e.g., none are listed in the Handbook of Avian Hybrids). Furthermore, it would be highly unlikely as the two species do not overlap in any part of their breeding range. Hermit

[nysbirds-l] eBird.org Shared Location - Central Park--Triplets Br. area (btwn 77th-79th St. transv.)

For those that don't use the overall 'Central Park' eBird hotspot a marker was created for 'Central Park--Triplets Br. area (btwn 77th-79th St. transv.)' for New York County (Borough of Manhattan). The hotspot should be available within 12 hours. If you wish to merge your personal location with an

[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC: friendly reminder

Sunday, 1st of May, 2016 - As with the occurrence of a rare Swainson's Warbler several days ago at Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) there is a possibility a good many people might converge on the area where another (new) potential rarity was, and may still be, today: the management of th

RE:[nysbirds-l] CP Hermit Warbler

My own experience with this species was an 11/29/2002 bird at Jones Beach and a 12/21/2010 bird at Sunken Meadow. Both were in winter plumage without black on the throat. The early bird had a bit of yellow on the throat where it would have been replaced by black in the Spring, the later one did

[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday May 1, 2016

Central Park NYC Sunday May 1, 2016 Robert DeCandido, PhD & others on a bird walk starting from Turtle Pond at 9am to around noon The group tallied eight warbler species in spite of the rain. Double-crested Cormorant - adult & immature Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night

[nysbirds-l] Central Park mystery warbler: photo link

I just uploaded four photos of the warbler, and the link is here: http://www.birdsiviews.com/Birds/Warblers/ Unfortunately, they were taken with my lightweight mirrorless camera, which does ok with close, slow-moving subjects on sunny days, but none of those conditions applied today :-). A big p

[nysbirds-l] Another photo link for the Central Park mystery warbler: photo link

Thanks to everyone for showing interest in this bird. Alexis found a photo on the Cornell site of an adult Hermit Warbler with a black bib *and* auricular patch; it looks similar to the bird we saw: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hermit_Warbler/id (Scroll down and look at the photo where th

[nysbirds-l] Incredible day of birding in Broome County: Marbled Godwit and "Western" Willet

Woke up with the idea that I would take a break from birding todayreal busy!  Anyway, first thingI see on our BroomeRBA is a MARBLED GODWIT found by the birding guru Tim Lenz at Upper Lisle County Park in Whitney Point on a gravel bar upper end of the reservoir. So I forgo my coffee and brea

[nysbirds-l] Incredible day of birding in Broome County: Marbled Godwit and "Western" Willet

Woke up with the idea that I would take a break from birding todayreal busy! Anyway, first thing I see on our BroomeRBA is a MARBLED GODWIT found by the birding guru Tim Lenz at Upper Lisle County Park in Whitney Point on a gravel bar upper end of the reservoir. So I forgo my coffee and breakf

[nysbirds-l] [ebirdsnyc] Another photo link for the Central Park mystery warbler: photo link

It's a very interesting find Karen. I'd imagine voice is the biggest clue (more so than plumage). As far as I know these two species are not naturally sympatric anywhere, so singing the 'wrong' song is more likely to be indicative of some form of hybridity than an example of 'learning'. It's well

[nysbirds-l] searching in Central Park, NYC 5/1

Sunday, the 1st of May, 2016 Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City With a 2nd *potential* state-rare bird in Central Park in less than 3 full days, the search is on, for the apparent Hermit Warbler found earlier today near the park entrance at West 77 St. and the small stream that is just to th

[nysbirds-l] ID Frontiers?

Anyone know how to subscribe to ID Frontiers (aka BIRDWG01) so I can post the mystery bird? All the links I'm finding online are broken. Or, if any of you are members already and can post for me, please contact me off-list... thanks Thanks, Karen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastB

[nysbirds-l] Mystery warbler: Link to ID Frontiers post, and a thank-you

All -- I posted to ID Frontiers. Thanks to those who replied with suggestions on how to register. Here's a link to the post: http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=1114950&MLID=IDF&MLNM=ID%20Frontiers Karen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.