[nysbirds-l] Yellow-headed Blackbird, East Hampton

2020-02-02 Thread Anthony Collerton
Female / Imm type with 3,000 assorted ‘ickies’ (mostly Red-winged Blackbirds and Brown-headed Cowbirds) on Stephen Hand’s Path. Picked up and lost the bird quickly as the flock flushed but they are still here just further back from the road. Just North of the Sag Turnpike but on posted private

[nysbirds-l] Central Park & New York County, NYC - Feb. 1st: Iceland Gull, R.h. Woodpecker, B.-t. Grackle, much more incl. REDHEAD on 1/22/‘20she

2020-02-02 Thread Tom Fiore
Probably the rarest sighting of any bird in New York County of the last ten days or so, in terms of modern-day regularity of occurrence there was the female-plumaged REDHEAD photographed by a lucky few birders, that back on Jan. 22, 2020. As far as I know this duck was not re-found after its on

[nysbirds-l] Re: [nysbirds-l] Barrow’s Goldeneye, Sammy’s Beach, East Hampton.

2020-02-02 Thread Katherine Kleinpeter
The male Barrow’s Goldeneye continues in Three Mile Harbor this morning on the Sammy’s Beach side, actively diving with the Common Goldeneye. Thank you Anthony for sending out word yesterday. On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 3:27 PM Anthony Collerton wrote: > Full male and female in the Three Mile Harbor

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread Sean Sime
When this first started happening (specifically in Tompkins County), I emailed a few people at eBird to see if there was a reason. Here was the response I received; "It's a glitch with the Android version that sometimes loses the location of a list, and defaults to a set of coordinates so that the

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread zach schwartz-weinstein
Needs Alerts and rare bird alerts go out prior to sighting review, which is as it should be, since otherwise the birds would be gone before anyone had received an alert. The recent spate of outlandish reports from Tompkins County are presumably the result of new users not understanding how to prop

Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread Jane Ross
Or at least find them a better moderator! Jane F. Ross, PhD 1112 Park Ave. New York, NY 10128 mobile: 917-992-6708 On Feb 2, 2020, at 1:22 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:  Wow. Lets all go to Ithaca. Eburd. For syentifik purpisses only. Original message From: ebird-al...@co

[nysbirds-l] FW: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York

2020-02-02 Thread ArieGilbert
Wow.  Lets all go to Ithaca. Eburd. For syentifik purpisses only.  Original message From: ebird-al...@cornell.edu Date: 2/2/20 4:56 AM (GMT-05:00) To: ariegilb...@optonline.net Subject: [eBird Alert] Needs Alert for New York *** Species Summary:Greater Coucal (1 Tompkins)Asia