Had a turkey vulture over Stony Brook University at mid-afternoon two days in a row this week. Eileen Keenan
-----Original Message----- From: ROBERT ADAMO <rada...@msn.com> To: NY BIRDS <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> Sent: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 3:05 pm Subject: [nysbirds-l] Turkey Vultures + On Monday evening (3/26) ~ 6:35 P.M., I had a lone T.V. flying low over downtown Riverhead, and again when we crossied paths, about 5 minutes later, a bit farther north. Thinking at the time it was late in the day for such a sighting, coupled with the prevailing reasoning that the T.V's seen during the day on eastern L.I. are probably "day trippers" from Connecticut (and as such, would have started their "return trip"earlier) I put it down as a probable migrant. On Wednesday morning at ~ 0840, I had the same species (individual ?) flying low at the latter of the 2 locations above. The time, day and location of this occurrence made me wonder if this sighting was that of an individual that had spent at least a few days & nights feeding & roosting here in the Riverhead area. Today I received an email from Tom Lambertson, a local birder, who lives in Flanders, and works at Brookhaven National Laboratory. All 3 Osprey nests that he monitors (2 near home and 1 at work) were late getting occupied this year, with dates of 3/26, 3/27 and 3/28, respectively. These quite late, considering they are normally on territory by St. Patrick's Day, or the day afterward. For the last couple of days, between 6 and 7 PM, he has also seen 10 - 12 T.V's flying ( south & east) of the intersection of Routes 105 and 24 (Flanders Rd.), Flanders. In addition, Tom mentioned seeing his FOS Eastern Kingbird at B.N.L., on 3/28. Cheers, Bob -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --