If you’re interested in a comparison to Jones Beach West End, Shai, there’s
actually been an uptick in migrating finches the last two days. The American
Goldfinch count was around 400 each day, and there’s been single digits of
Purple Finch and Pine Siskin. Still a few dozen Red-winged Blackbird
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* December 07, 2020
* NYSY 12. 07. 20
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
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covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma We
Central Park NYC
Sunday December 6, 2020
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Winter Raptors and Ducks. See note below re: Western Tanager.
Canada Goose - around 50 including flocks of southbound migrants
Northern Shoveler - around 50
Mallard - around 100
American Black
Is puckerbrush a highly technical botanical term?
> On December 7, 2020 at 11:38 AM Shaibal Mitra
> wrote:
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>
> As nocturnal landbird migration has faded to near zero, I've been finding it
> more difficult to make an early start. This morning I reached Robert Moses
> SP, Suffolk County, LI
As nocturnal landbird migration has faded to near zero, I've been finding it
more difficult to make an early start. This morning I reached Robert Moses SP,
Suffolk County, LI at 08:30 without a clear expectation of what the light wnw
winds might bring: on the one hand the possibility of a rare i
Continues at Clement Moore Park. First seen in trees on 22nd street
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Well written Tom. I especially like your effort to credit the original finder.
Another Western Tanager was found by Vickie Bustamante on Big Reed Path in
Montauk LI, yesterday.
That would be two that we currently are aware of as I am not sure if the
Brooklyn bird is still around. The discover
It seems reasonable to note and thank the finder of the Western Tanager that
many, many birders came around to observe, on Sunday Dec. 6th, on Manhattan’s
west side (in New York City) in the Chelsea neighborhood at W. 22nd St. - just
east of Tenth Avenue.
So, thank you from everyone, Matt Rai