[nysbirds-l] Sunflower Valley Farm and Liberty Lane in Pine Island, NY are closed to birders.

2020-08-22 Thread AJIT ANTONY
To those birders from outside Orange County New York who bird in Orange County, NY. Please note that Sunflower Valley Farm in Pine Island New York has been out of bounds to birders for the past 3 years or more. The owner has made it clear to a member of our club he knows that he does not want bi

Re: [nysbirds-l] White Pelican - Ulster County

2020-08-22 Thread George Thompson
The pelican was still there at 2:30 this afternoon. Looking east from the "Site of the former West Hurley" sign on Dike Road. GAT On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:41 AM Richard Guthrie wrote: > An Amer. White Pelican is currently being seen at the Ashokan Reservoir in > Ulster County, NY> > > Visib

[nysbirds-l] Hudson Yards Birds

2020-08-22 Thread Alan Drogin
A couple of weeks ago I returned to birding the Hudson Yards, a whole five months after the quarantine banned visits to the office, and a time of year notorious for low expectations. I did expect there would be more buildings going up and fewer vacant lots with wild vegetation - but now with a

Re: [nysbirds-l] Sunflower Valley Farm and Liberty Lane in Pine Island, NY are closed to birders.

2020-08-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
The original poster auto-blocks replies, so I'll post on here The simplest idea - and something that clearly should have been done a while back - is to change the name of the hotspot to append either "private" or "closed to birders" Phil Heffrey On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:24 AM AJIT ANTONY wrote