I've had the good luck to spot the Yellow-headed blackbird twice and both
times it was associating with cowbirds, first time with a few female CB's,
second time with a small mixed group of CB's and red-wings, also mostly
female. Both times in the west Tern colony at Nickerson near the edge of
the p
I spent several hours at Nickerson Beach today, searching for the long
continuing but infrequently encountered Yellow-headed Blackbird that was
reported again yesterday evening. There were tons of starlings and cowbirds
moving around the area, but they were tricky to pin down. Reviewing my photo
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* September 27, 2021
* NYSY 09. 27. 21
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s): September 20 to September 27, 2021
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex
Central Park, NYC
Sunday October 3, 2021
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Baltimore Oriole, Ten Species of Wood
Warblers incl. Cape May Warbler, & record early fall arrival date below.
Canada Goose - 4
Mallard - 25
Mourning dove - 17
Rub
Spectacular birding at the Compost area (East 105th-103rd) street on Sunday. We
spotted the following birds:
MOURNING WARBLER (immature)- north of Green Bench
Eastern Phoebe
Indigo bunting
Swamp sparrow
White throated sparrow
Savannah sparrow-3
Song sparrow
House Finch
Eastern Towhee
Magnolia war
The Atlantic Princess, with about 25 birders aboard, left the Brooklyn dock
at about 10:00 pm Sunday night. At about 12:30 a.m., it slowed and stopped,
and at 12:45 it was announced that the boat would return to the dock, due
to "mechanical problems." Some passengers were heard to express some doub