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
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
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
“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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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