There was nice correlation of last night's radar and Steve's observations at Jones Beach. The density of radar reflectivity was moderate, but the overall migration appeared to be southeasterly, with peaks ending centered on the Nassau-Suffolk border. Looks like there might be some corrective east-west migration on the island during the day.
Link to loop of last night's radar follows. Most intense reflectivity, corresponding to bird density, is in green: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50403904@N03/15492631781/ NEXRAD images from the National Center for Atmospheric research (http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/radar/). Happy fall birding! Peter Begin forwarded message: > From: Steve Walter <swalte...@verizon.net> > Subject: [nysbirds-l] Coastal Fallout > Date: October 10, 2014 8:42:05 AM EDT > To: "nysbirds-l@cornell.edu" <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> > Reply-To: Steve Walter <swalte...@verizon.net> > > Just want to get the word out that Jones Beach and the coast are loaded with > birds this morning. Good variety. > > Steve Walter > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Shaibal Mitra > Date:10/09/2014 1:09 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: nysbirds-l@cornell.edu > Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK - Heckscher SP, East Islip, > Suffolk Co. > > Sean Sime and I searched without success late this morning, and Sean is still > on site. > > I heard third hand through Pat of a possible re-sighting earlier this > morning, in the same area as Phil's last night and of Pat's yesterday > morning, but I don't have any details about how well this last bird was seen. > > For those considering trying for this bird, I would caution that there is a > prodigious amount of fruiting tupelo in the area, attracting hordes of > Robins, Waxwings, Starlings, and other birds. Although this enhances the > likelihood that the Black-headed Grosbeak might have remained in the area, it > also means that it would be natural to expect Rose-breasts to be present also. > > Sean had a Red-headed Woodpecker and a Bay-breasted Warbler before I joined > him, while I had two Red-headed Woodpeckers at Robert Moses SP, on the beach, > earlier in the morning (in addition to large flocks, some >100, of Pine > Siskins, many Purple Finches, more than a dozen Rusty Blackbirds, etc.). > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > ________________________________________ > From: bounce-118156826-3714...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-118156826-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of > pjlind...@optonline.net [pjlind...@optonline.net] > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 10:08 AM > To: nysbirds-l@cornell.edu > Subject: [nysbirds-l] BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK - Heckscher SP, East Islip, > Suffolk Co. > > Seen around 8:35 AM from along the bike/exercise trail in the > southwest corner of the parking lot at Field 1. The call, lower and less > squeaky than Rose-breasted, reminiscent of a short Downy Woodpecker > note, got > my attention and I made a concerted effort to locate it. I had decent > views of > the bird for several minutes high in a tree, showing fine streaking on > the > sides of the buffy upper breast, and noted the dark upper mandible > though I did > not remember the significance of this field mark at the time. The bird > flew > across the bike trail towards the north and I lost sight of it behind > the > treetops; I did not see the underwings. Very late for work, I had to > abandon > the area. 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