[nysbirds-l] Lightening strikes twice (maybe in the very same spot).......a tad over 45 years ago !

2022-08-15 Thread robert adamo
First congratulations Patrice on a great sighting ! Since you've started birding you have put the time and perseverance into your forays out of doors, with many of us being impressed, but not surprised ! So here's what happened on 7/18/77, as best I can remember, without the benefit of the fuller

[nysbirds-l] Seven White Ibis- West Meadow beach, Stony Brook

2022-08-15 Thread Patrice Domeischel
There are now 7 White Ibis here in Stony Brook. At high tide, I checked the marsh side off trustees Road at West Meadow Beach. I viewed the birds through a cut off about 100 feet from the kiosk. They were roosting on a dead tree out in the open, preening and resting. They stayed long enough for Do

[nysbirds-l] Syracuse area RBA

2022-08-15 Thread Joseph Brin
RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse * August 15, 2022 * NYSY  08. 15. 22   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 08, 2022 to August 15, 2022 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetland

[nysbirds-l] extralimital (from Fri., 8/12) blog-entry w/photos: Cape Verde Shearwater off Cape Cod, Mass.

2022-08-15 Thread Tom Fiore
Many birders with pelagic interests likely have already been checking out this blog and other fora of similar interest; this is a bird from Friday, Aug. 12th which a smallish party of keen birders observed out of Chatham, Massachusetts (off Cape Cod). A nice read - this was of course also posted