[nysbirds-l] Pink-footed Goose

The ponkfooted and barnacle just flew into the marsh west of the bridge where the Pink-footed was seen yesterday. Chris Wood Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1)

[nysbirds-l] Pink-footed Goose -- thoughts on finding

Hi All, Tom Johnson, Carolyn Sedgwick, Jessie Barry and I spent the better part of the day enjoying the Canada Geese, gulls, flyover passerines and traffic at Sunken Meadow State Park. Despite spending much of the day there, we did not see the geese until 3:02PM. Tom Johnson first saw the Pink-fo

[cayugabirds-l] Long-tailed Jaeger from Myers Point this AM (photos)

Hi all, I was wrapping up my morning flight surveys for Benjamin Van Dorn this morning at Myers Point north of Ithaca (Tompkins Co.) when I noticed many gulls that were resting on the lake take flight. I looked over and immediately saw a fairly pale jaeger flying towards me. I quickly identified i

Re: [nysbirds-l] Juvenile Ruff at Montezuma

Hi all, I uploaded a couple of images of this bird to my Flickr page. The bird was fairly distant much of the time, so my best images were taken when shorebirds were flushed by a juvenile Peregrine Falcon. On one image, you can see the Ruff with a Red Knot in flight (also rare here). http://www.f

[nysbirds-l] eBird

Greetings, I thought it might be appropriate for me to respond to help clarify some things about eBird since I'm privileged to colead the project with Brian Sullivan (based in California) and Marshall Iliff (based in Massachusetts). I want to be very clear. eBird is not perfect. And as hard as we

[nysbirds-l] King Eider on Cayuga Lake (Myers)

Good afternoon, This morning Bob McGuire and I found a second-year male King Eider at Myers Point (Cayuga Lake). The distance and choppy water made it hard to get good images, but I uploaded one to my Flickr site. I'm uploading some poor video too, which should be finished uploading in 30 minutes

[cayugabirds-l] King Eider -- Sheldrake

Good evening, Jessie Barry and I headed up to Sheldrake Point (Seneca County) to look for the Pacific Loon or other goodies. The lake was fairly devoid of birds, with one very notable exception -- a second-year male King Eider at Sheldrake Point. Jessie found the eider about 30 seconds after we ar

[cayugabirds-l] Hybrid Northern Shoveler x Blue-winged Teal at Montezuma Visitor Center

Hi everyone, This morning on our way back to Ithaca, Jessie Barry and I stopped at the Montezuma NWR Visitor Center. We saw what may be my first lifer in New York, a hybrid BLUE-WINGED TEAL X NORTHERN SHOVELER. This was certainly one of the more spectacular birds that we have seen recently and cer

Re:[nysbirds-l] [GeneseeBirds-L] Hybrid Northern Shoveler x Blue-winged Teal at Montezuma Visitor Center

by using Google Images search. The hybrid N Shoveler X Blue-winged Teal > images that I found seemed to have paler breasts that either your bird > or the Australian Shovelers. > > David > > David M. Mark > Amherst, NY > dm...@buffalo.edu > > > On Mon 05/09/11 10:5

[nysbirds-l] Long-tailed Jaeger at Braddock Bay

I thought I would cross post this here given the rarity of Long-tailed Jaeger in July in Upstate New York. This evening, Jessie, Jim, Liz, and Sam Barry and I went around Braddock Bay by boat. While we were cruising around and noticed a distant bird that was being harassed by gulls. My first impre

[cayugabirds-l] eBird Photo Quiz

Hi everyone, We've developed a fun and fairly challenging fall photo quiz that I think you may enjoy. Have fun! http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/fall2011quiz Thanks, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotr

[nysbirds-l] Hamlin Beach Yellow-billed Loon details

Hamlin Beach SP - Parking Area 4, Monroe, US-NY Oct 16, 2011 7:25 AM - 10:25 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments: One of the better days that we have had at Hamlin Beach. The biggest highlight was a completely unexpected breeding plumage adult YELLOW-BILLED LOON (see below for details), which I fi

[nysbirds-l] Thayer's Gull Tompkins County

During lunch today I found a juvenile Thayer's Gull at the Stevenson Road compost piles in Tompkins County (Dryden, just east of the Cornell campus). I was able to get a few photos that you can see in my eBird checklist at the link below. This is a fairly normal-looking juvenile Thayer's Gull (to

[nysbirds-l] eBirding, Science and Conservation

Hi everyone, I thought some of you may be interested in a paper that appears in PLoS Biology, a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science. Our hope is that this paper shows some of the ways the birding community has shaped our thinking about citizen science and he

[cayugabirds-l] Western Grebe at Myers Point, Tompkins Co.

I'd like to thank Chris T-H for getting the word out on the Western Grebe. I have uploaded a few photos into my eBird report, which also has more details about the sighting. I entered this fairly quickly so please excuse any typos etc. Click the link below for photos and notes. http://ebird.org/eb

[nysbirds-l] Presumed Cassiar Junco at Monkey Run

Jessie and I were very surprised to look out at the feeder today at Monkey Run in Tompkins County and see what appears to be a first-winter male Cassiar Junco (Junco hyemalis cismontanus). While the taxonomy of Cassiar Junco is complex (to say the least) and further complicated by our very poor un

[nysbirds-l] Yellow-headed Blackbird, Hog Hole, Tompkins County

Greetings, There was a fairly impressive flight of blackbirds, cowbirds, and grackles this evening at Hog Hole (Ithaca, NY). Most flocks were about 300 - 500 birds. The biggest surprise was a single adult male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD in a flock about 400 birds that was comprised of 80% Red-winged

[nysbirds-l] Waterbird fallout yesterday

Hi everyone, Conditions yesterday in Upstate New York and much of Pennsylvania were ideal for a widespread waterbird fallout. Here in Ithaca, this is sometimes referred to as the "Dryden Lake Effect", after the small lake in eastern Tompkins county that hosts numbers of grebes, scoters, loons and

[cayugabirds-l] Myers Point, Tompkins County -- Black Tern

Conditions seemed very good for a Myers fallout this morning, so Jeff Gerbracht and I spent about 80 minutes watching. Yesterday temperatures reached the mid-80s in Upstate New York with strong southerly flow. Last night a cold front came through and dropped temperatures. While there was only minim

[nysbirds-l] Exotic Species in eBird

Hi John and others, This is an excellent, albeit complicated question. I'm sorry for the length of this reply, but we hope for this process to be as transparent as possible so there is probably more here than anyone wanted on this topic. The information below comes from the documentation we send t

[nysbirds-l] eBird and Records Committees

If the last post wasn't long enough, I thought it may also be useful for me to include our instructions to reviewers for coordinating with records committees. It is critical that everyone understand that we view NYSARC and eBird to be complimentary. NYSARC is of great added benefit to eBird and we

Re: [nysbirds-l] Common Pochard in NY/ VT - the band

Good morning, Tom, Jessie and I received some secondhand communications from Connecticut that someone in New York did lose a Common Pochard that fits this description. We also solicited some feedback from the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) on the band given the organizations expertise and in

[nysbirds-l] Awesome waterbird movement this AM on Lake Ontario

Jessie and I spent the morning birding at Edgemere Drive near Braddock Bay (Monroe County) and enjoyed what was easily one of the best mornings of migration watching that we have experienced in spring. We had over 10,000 Long-tailed Ducks and 2200 Horned Grebes (and would have had more if we could