[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday Oct. 30, 2016 - Field & White-crowned Sparrows, 7 Wood Warblers Species
Central Park NYC Sunday Oct. 30, 2016 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am Beautiful weather today almost made up for the last 2 cold and windy days. Highlights:Field & White-crowned Sparrows at Sparrow Rock. Belted Kingfisher. Warblers: Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, Northern Parula, Blackpoll, Black-throated Blue, Palm, and Common Yellowthroat. Canada Goose - southbound skein of 28+, some on the Lake at the Riviera Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Gadwall - 12 Reservoir (before walk) Mallard - Turtle Pond, Reservoir, Lake Northern Shoveler - 8 Turtle Pond, others at Reservoir Bufflehead - 3 Reservoir (before walk) Ruddy Duck - rafts on Reservoir Mourning Dove - singles & small flocks Herring, Ring-billed, & Great Black-backed Gulls - around 200 total Reservoir, many flyover Herring Gulls Double-crested Cormorant - Reservoir (before walk) Accipiter species - Evodia Field (Anne Shanahan reported a Cooper's Hawk at Azalea Pond later) Red-tailed Hawk - immature landed in Willow Oak above Turtle Pond Dock Belted Kingfisher - flyover Pinetum (Jeff Ward) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 2 Sparrow Rock American Crow Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee - 10 Tufted Titmouse - at least 15 Red-breasted Nuthatch -4 (2 Pinetum, 2 Shakespeare Garden) White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Brown Creeper - Triplet's Bridge (Sandra Critelli after lunch) Winter Wren - Maintenance Field Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 Hermit Thrush - 15 to 20 American Robin - many American Goldfinch - Shakespeare Garden (Jeff Ward) Orange-crowned Warbler - west side of Great Lawn (after lunch - seen earlier by Peter Haskel, Karen Evans & others) Common Yellowthroat - Sparrow Rock (after lunch) Northern Parula - Pinetum Blackpoll Warbler - Sparrow Rock (after lunch - thanks to Kai Sheffield) Black-throated Blue Warbler - the Point Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" Pinetum (Jeff Ward) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 (6 Pinetum and 1 Point (Sandra Critelli)) Field Sparrow - 2 west side of Great Lawn (Jayne W.) Song Sparrow - many locations White-throated Sparrow - too many White-crowned Sparrow - 2 hatch-year birds Sparrow Rock Dark-eyed Junco - around 70 Common Grackle - around 150 leaving roost at Reservoir & flying north (before walk) Northern Cardinal - residents We looked for, but did not find, the Empidonax flycatcher that I found on Friday afternoon (10/28) in a fenced area on the west side of the Great Lawn. Our birding group and other observers saw the flycatcher yesterday (10/29). No luck today though. At Sparrow Rock today a Yellow-breasted Chat and Indigo bunting had multiple observers. A Dickcissel was also reported there. Deb Allen -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday Oct. 30, 2016 - Field & White-crowned Sparrows, 7 Wood Warblers Species
Central Park NYC Sunday Oct. 30, 2016 OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob on bird walk starting from the dock on Turtle Pond at 9am Beautiful weather today almost made up for the last 2 cold and windy days. Highlights:Field & White-crowned Sparrows at Sparrow Rock. Belted Kingfisher. Warblers: Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, Northern Parula, Blackpoll, Black-throated Blue, Palm, and Common Yellowthroat. Canada Goose - southbound skein of 28+, some on the Lake at the Riviera Wood Duck - male Turtle Pond Gadwall - 12 Reservoir (before walk) Mallard - Turtle Pond, Reservoir, Lake Northern Shoveler - 8 Turtle Pond, others at Reservoir Bufflehead - 3 Reservoir (before walk) Ruddy Duck - rafts on Reservoir Mourning Dove - singles & small flocks Herring, Ring-billed, & Great Black-backed Gulls - around 200 total Reservoir, many flyover Herring Gulls Double-crested Cormorant - Reservoir (before walk) Accipiter species - Evodia Field (Anne Shanahan reported a Cooper's Hawk at Azalea Pond later) Red-tailed Hawk - immature landed in Willow Oak above Turtle Pond Dock Belted Kingfisher - flyover Pinetum (Jeff Ward) Red-bellied Woodpecker - residents Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6 Downy Woodpecker - residents Northern Flicker - 2 Sparrow Rock American Crow Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee - 10 Tufted Titmouse - at least 15 Red-breasted Nuthatch -4 (2 Pinetum, 2 Shakespeare Garden) White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 Brown Creeper - Triplet's Bridge (Sandra Critelli after lunch) Winter Wren - Maintenance Field Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15 Hermit Thrush - 15 to 20 American Robin - many American Goldfinch - Shakespeare Garden (Jeff Ward) Orange-crowned Warbler - west side of Great Lawn (after lunch - seen earlier by Peter Haskel, Karen Evans & others) Common Yellowthroat - Sparrow Rock (after lunch) Northern Parula - Pinetum Blackpoll Warbler - Sparrow Rock (after lunch - thanks to Kai Sheffield) Black-throated Blue Warbler - the Point Palm Warbler - 2 "Yellow" Pinetum (Jeff Ward) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 (6 Pinetum and 1 Point (Sandra Critelli)) Field Sparrow - 2 west side of Great Lawn (Jayne W.) Song Sparrow - many locations White-throated Sparrow - too many White-crowned Sparrow - 2 hatch-year birds Sparrow Rock Dark-eyed Junco - around 70 Common Grackle - around 150 leaving roost at Reservoir & flying north (before walk) Northern Cardinal - residents We looked for, but did not find, the Empidonax flycatcher that I found on Friday afternoon (10/28) in a fenced area on the west side of the Great Lawn. Our birding group and other observers saw the flycatcher yesterday (10/29). No luck today though. At Sparrow Rock today a Yellow-breasted Chat and Indigo bunting had multiple observers. A Dickcissel was also reported there. Deb Allen -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
Pelham Bay Park has been quite birdy this week. Along the edges of Hunter Island birds seem to be everywhere. Park at Orchard Beach and just follow the edges of the grassy areas. There were very many of most species listed below. Yellow-rumped Warbler Palm Warbler Savannah Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Tree Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow Eastern Towhee Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Osprey Coopers Hawk Dark-eyed Junco Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper House Finch Eastern Phoebe Double-crested Cormorant Black-capped Chickadee Mallard Mourning Doves Winter Wren Carolina Wren Brant Red-breasted Mergansers Black Duck White-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Nuthatch Common Grackle American Robin Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Jack Rothman CityIslandBirds.com -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
Pelham Bay Park has been quite birdy this week. Along the edges of Hunter Island birds seem to be everywhere. Park at Orchard Beach and just follow the edges of the grassy areas. There were very many of most species listed below. Yellow-rumped Warbler Palm Warbler Savannah Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Tree Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow Eastern Towhee Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Osprey Coopers Hawk Dark-eyed Junco Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper House Finch Eastern Phoebe Double-crested Cormorant Black-capped Chickadee Mallard Mourning Doves Winter Wren Carolina Wren Brant Red-breasted Mergansers Black Duck White-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Nuthatch Common Grackle American Robin Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Jack Rothman CityIslandBirds.com -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cackling Goose - Suffolk Co. (Caumsett SP)
Good day! This morning, in a fruitless attempt to re-find yesterday's Cattle Egret at Caumsett Historic State Park, in Suffolk Co., I came across a single Cackling Goose in a flock of approximately 200-300 Canada Geese. The modest gaggle was foraging in the field(s) just north of the riding stables. Með Kveðju & Good Birding, Phillip W Magnussen -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cackling Goose - Suffolk Co. (Caumsett SP)
Good day! This morning, in a fruitless attempt to re-find yesterday's Cattle Egret at Caumsett Historic State Park, in Suffolk Co., I came across a single Cackling Goose in a flock of approximately 200-300 Canada Geese. The modest gaggle was foraging in the field(s) just north of the riding stables. Með Kveðju & Good Birding, Phillip W Magnussen -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park 10/30
I birded Kissena Park for a couple hours this AM with Jeff Ritter and Bob and Collen Veltri. A bit of stuff must have come in under the radar during the past few days, because it was surprisingly birdy. Most numerous were robins and song sparrows,many of whom were singing on this warm fall morning, but there were more interesting birds as well. We started at the ballfields. With multiple football games going on, field 9 was the only quiet one. Things were quite active there, with white-crowned, field and Savannah sparrows seen. But the highlight was a trio of vesper sparrows first noted on the chain link backstop, and later on the field where they were joined by an American Pippit. (Of note, when I returned later in the morning the vespers had moved to field 6.). We then headed for the orchard, east of the velodrome, were we saw swamp and song sparrows, a few ruby crowned kinglets, and a brown thrasher. The orchard’s highlight, however, was a delicate, orange-crowned warbler, flitting around the cottony flower seeds. On the way out, we looked into the middle of the velodrome were we saw a bright yellow Eastern Meadowlark amongst all the robins. (It may have been the one Cesar Castillo had found earlier in the week.) What a beauty. Lastly, we headed over to the corridor for a quick once around. In addition to phoebes, hermit thrushes, and blue headed vireos, we finally saw good numbers of finches, including gold, house, and and at least 2 female purple finches. Here is a link to some photos of these birds, and to a video of the meadowlark: https://flic.kr/s/aHskKz9yRt https://vimeo.com/189529619 Happy late fall birding, Peter -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park 10/30
I birded Kissena Park for a couple hours this AM with Jeff Ritter and Bob and Collen Veltri. A bit of stuff must have come in under the radar during the past few days, because it was surprisingly birdy. Most numerous were robins and song sparrows,many of whom were singing on this warm fall morning, but there were more interesting birds as well. We started at the ballfields. With multiple football games going on, field 9 was the only quiet one. Things were quite active there, with white-crowned, field and Savannah sparrows seen. But the highlight was a trio of vesper sparrows first noted on the chain link backstop, and later on the field where they were joined by an American Pippit. (Of note, when I returned later in the morning the vespers had moved to field 6.). We then headed for the orchard, east of the velodrome, were we saw swamp and song sparrows, a few ruby crowned kinglets, and a brown thrasher. The orchard’s highlight, however, was a delicate, orange-crowned warbler, flitting around the cottony flower seeds. On the way out, we looked into the middle of the velodrome were we saw a bright yellow Eastern Meadowlark amongst all the robins. (It may have been the one Cesar Castillo had found earlier in the week.) What a beauty. Lastly, we headed over to the corridor for a quick once around. In addition to phoebes, hermit thrushes, and blue headed vireos, we finally saw good numbers of finches, including gold, house, and and at least 2 female purple finches. Here is a link to some photos of these birds, and to a video of the meadowlark: https://flic.kr/s/aHskKz9yRt https://vimeo.com/189529619 Happy late fall birding, Peter -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 10/30 (Chat, Empid., & other lingering spp.)
Sunday, 30th October, 2016 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City On a very mild morning in this city, many birds were active at first light & afterwards - a Yellow-breasted Chat is continuing in the area of "Sparrow Rock" which is near West 83 Street & on the east side of the park's West Drive roadway - a variety of other birds are in that area, and a short way east (as of 8:55 am) was an Empidonax [genus] flycatcher (which was not vocal at all in the brief time I was viewing it); various other species present again (in areas where seen in recent days) also include a Red-headed Woodpecker (young bird) near the SE edges of Sheep Meadow, just north of the Transverse Road, and a Northern Waterthrush & other warblers at The Pond, the waterthrush again seen at the very SE corner of that body of water, which itself is in the SE corner of the park. Many other species present in many areas of the park, & more reports are sure to come. - - - - - - - "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), U.S. wildlife biologist, conservationist, professor, author, best known for his book "A Sand County Almanac" (1949), which has sold more than two million copies. good birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 10/30 (Chat, Empid., & other lingering spp.)
Sunday, 30th October, 2016 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City On a very mild morning in this city, many birds were active at first light & afterwards - a Yellow-breasted Chat is continuing in the area of "Sparrow Rock" which is near West 83 Street & on the east side of the park's West Drive roadway - a variety of other birds are in that area, and a short way east (as of 8:55 am) was an Empidonax [genus] flycatcher (which was not vocal at all in the brief time I was viewing it); various other species present again (in areas where seen in recent days) also include a Red-headed Woodpecker (young bird) near the SE edges of Sheep Meadow, just north of the Transverse Road, and a Northern Waterthrush & other warblers at The Pond, the waterthrush again seen at the very SE corner of that body of water, which itself is in the SE corner of the park. Many other species present in many areas of the park, & more reports are sure to come. - - - - - - - "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), U.S. wildlife biologist, conservationist, professor, author, best known for his book "A Sand County Almanac" (1949), which has sold more than two million copies. good birding, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- 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/ --
