[nysbirds-l] After 2 nights of favorable winds.....

2017-10-17 Thread robert adamo 
In spite of a late start, I headed for the West End of JBSP, with a few
planned stops enroute. RMSP, as with all my "ports of call" today, had, as
their most numerous species, the ubiquitous E.Phoebe. I must have seen
between 125 to 150 all told !

 Prior to reaching the F.I.Hawkwatch, I had picked up an adult Merlin. In
addition to the warm camaraderie that one always finds at the watcher's
platform, good birds are found there almost always ! Although I was there
for just a short-while today, the highlight for me was having an
interaction between a raven and a crow pointed out by one of the regulars.
An adult Peregrine Falcon was at rest on the water tower as I left the
barrier beach.

A stop at Gilgo, produced a Palm Warbler and 2 White-crowned Sparrows,
among the many Yellow-rumped Warblers and common sparrows found there. A
Lesser Yellowlegs was feeding in the marsh.

The water tower at JBSP produced its own adult Peregrine Falcon.

At the West End I had both adult and immature Merlin, in addition to a
Kestrel. The area near the Coast Guard fence was loaded with sparrows and
warblers. Swamp was my only new sparrow species for the season, with all
but one warbler (again a Palm) being Yellow-rumped.

The last stop of the day held the bird of the day ! In the grassy area in
front of the fishing boats at Captree SP, a Dickcissel was found feeding
with a flock of ~ 10 House Sparrows.They moved around quite a bit, at times
venturing into the grassy area's of the eastern-most parking lot.

Cheers,
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[nysbirds-l] After 2 nights of favorable winds.....

2017-10-17 Thread robert adamo 
In spite of a late start, I headed for the West End of JBSP, with a few
planned stops enroute. RMSP, as with all my "ports of call" today, had, as
their most numerous species, the ubiquitous E.Phoebe. I must have seen
between 125 to 150 all told !

 Prior to reaching the F.I.Hawkwatch, I had picked up an adult Merlin. In
addition to the warm camaraderie that one always finds at the watcher's
platform, good birds are found there almost always ! Although I was there
for just a short-while today, the highlight for me was having an
interaction between a raven and a crow pointed out by one of the regulars.
An adult Peregrine Falcon was at rest on the water tower as I left the
barrier beach.

A stop at Gilgo, produced a Palm Warbler and 2 White-crowned Sparrows,
among the many Yellow-rumped Warblers and common sparrows found there. A
Lesser Yellowlegs was feeding in the marsh.

The water tower at JBSP produced its own adult Peregrine Falcon.

At the West End I had both adult and immature Merlin, in addition to a
Kestrel. The area near the Coast Guard fence was loaded with sparrows and
warblers. Swamp was my only new sparrow species for the season, with all
but one warbler (again a Palm) being Yellow-rumped.

The last stop of the day held the bird of the day ! In the grassy area in
front of the fishing boats at Captree SP, a Dickcissel was found feeding
with a flock of ~ 10 House Sparrows.They moved around quite a bit, at times
venturing into the grassy area's of the eastern-most parking lot.

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[nysbirds-l] Governors Island: Tue. 17-Oct-2017

2017-10-17 Thread Ben Cacace 
*NY County Highlights (Fall season): *

Brant, Killdeer (2), Palm Warbler (2), Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow &
Brown-headed Cowbird (11).

Decent #s of Mourning Doves (116+), White-throated Sparrows (89+) & Song
Sparrows (117+) throughout the island.

*1st hour*: *19 spp.*; *2nd*: *+11*; *3rd*: *+6*; *4th*: *+3* = *39 spp.*

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[nysbirds-l] Governors Island: Tue. 17-Oct-2017

2017-10-17 Thread Ben Cacace 
*NY County Highlights (Fall season): *

Brant, Killdeer (2), Palm Warbler (2), Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow &
Brown-headed Cowbird (11).

Decent #s of Mourning Doves (116+), White-throated Sparrows (89+) & Song
Sparrows (117+) throughout the island.

*1st hour*: *19 spp.*; *2nd*: *+11*; *3rd*: *+6*; *4th*: *+3* = *39 spp.*

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[nysbirds-l] 2 American Pipits - Jones Beach Swale

2017-10-17 Thread Michael Zito 
Hello, 
Kevin Rogers just informed he relocated two American Pipits at the Jones Beach 
Swale for those interested.  Posting for Kevin due to technical difficulties.
Mike Z.

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[nysbirds-l] 2 American Pipits - Jones Beach Swale

2017-10-17 Thread Michael Zito 
Hello, 
Kevin Rogers just informed he relocated two American Pipits at the Jones Beach 
Swale for those interested.  Posting for Kevin due to technical difficulties.
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[nysbirds-l] Prospect Park/Kings County Clay-colored Sparrow +

2017-10-17 Thread Sean Sime 
Migration was evident this morning in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. A
Clay-colored Sparrow was feeding on the grass just south of the LeFrak
Skating Rink with Chipping and Song Sparrows.

Other highlights included:

White-crowned Sparrow (Lookout Hill and Sparrow Bowl)
Lincoln's Sparrow
Field Sparrow

Orange-crowned Warbler(2) (Sparrow Bowl)
Northern Parula
Pine Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler

Winter Wren (3)
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo

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[nysbirds-l] Prospect Park/Kings County Clay-colored Sparrow +

2017-10-17 Thread Sean Sime 
Migration was evident this morning in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. A
Clay-colored Sparrow was feeding on the grass just south of the LeFrak
Skating Rink with Chipping and Song Sparrows.

Other highlights included:

White-crowned Sparrow (Lookout Hill and Sparrow Bowl)
Lincoln's Sparrow
Field Sparrow

Orange-crowned Warbler(2) (Sparrow Bowl)
Northern Parula
Pine Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler

Winter Wren (3)
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo

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[nysbirds-l] Jones beach

2017-10-17 Thread Sy Schiff 
Joe Jiunta & I (Sy Schiff) started at the hedgerow by the Coast Guard Station. 
Only 2 Song Sparrows, but a half dozen RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS and a half dozen 
EASTERN PHOEBES.  Just down the road to the Fisherman’s lot, there was a burst 
of activity, mainly of more EASTERN PHOEBES and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.

Following a report we walked out to the main road and to the west of the 
entrance to the Station, we finally found sparrows: SONG, WHITE-THROATED, 
CLAY-COLORED and LINCOLN’S SPARROWS. A return to the hedgerow an hour later 
finally found sparrows including a SWAMP and WHITE-CROWNED SPRARROW.

The bar was filled with American oystercatchers, DUNLIN, a few SANDERLING, some 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and 2 RED KNOT.  There were no shorebirds in the swale, 
but there were 3 AMERICAN PIPIT.

Raptors included a MERLIN and a RED-TAILED HAEK.

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[nysbirds-l] Jones beach

2017-10-17 Thread Sy Schiff 
Joe Jiunta & I (Sy Schiff) started at the hedgerow by the Coast Guard Station. 
Only 2 Song Sparrows, but a half dozen RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS and a half dozen 
EASTERN PHOEBES.  Just down the road to the Fisherman’s lot, there was a burst 
of activity, mainly of more EASTERN PHOEBES and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.

Following a report we walked out to the main road and to the west of the 
entrance to the Station, we finally found sparrows: SONG, WHITE-THROATED, 
CLAY-COLORED and LINCOLN’S SPARROWS. A return to the hedgerow an hour later 
finally found sparrows including a SWAMP and WHITE-CROWNED SPRARROW.

The bar was filled with American oystercatchers, DUNLIN, a few SANDERLING, some 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and 2 RED KNOT.  There were no shorebirds in the swale, 
but there were 3 AMERICAN PIPIT.

Raptors included a MERLIN and a RED-TAILED HAEK.

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[nysbirds-l] Dickcissel - Hampton Bays

2017-10-17 Thread Eileen Schwinn 
On the road leading to the Old Ponquogue Bridge , South (Ponquogue Beach 
overflow parking area - off Dune Rd) just south of parking and west of roadway, 
is a Dickcissel.  The bird is feeding on the grass roadside , but is easily 
spooked by passing cars.  Also in this general area, a Veery, , E. Phoebes, and 
usually Sparrows. 
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[nysbirds-l] Dickcissel - Hampton Bays

2017-10-17 Thread Eileen Schwinn 
On the road leading to the Old Ponquogue Bridge , South (Ponquogue Beach 
overflow parking area - off Dune Rd) just south of parking and west of roadway, 
is a Dickcissel.  The bird is feeding on the grass roadside , but is easily 
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usually Sparrows. 
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[nysbirds-l] Brown Booby continues (Montauk, Suffolk County) October 17

2017-10-17 Thread Gail Benson 
The Brown Booby is continuing to sit on the top of the mast of the Maui
(sailboat) on Lake Montauk, despite windy conditions.
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[nysbirds-l] Brown Booby continues (Montauk, Suffolk County) October 17

2017-10-17 Thread Gail Benson 
The Brown Booby is continuing to sit on the top of the mast of the Maui
(sailboat) on Lake Montauk, despite windy conditions.
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 10/13-14-15-16

2017-10-17 Thread Thomas Fiore 
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
Friday through Monday, 13th to 16th October, 2017 -

Having a very small part in a project on which Roger Pasquier, PhD has a role 
within one of his (not my) specialties, art-history, I’ve been getting into a 
few areas of the park I don’t wander as regularly each day out birding; some 
areas, as expected, have not yielded too much in either diversity or numbers of 
migrants, but any corner of the park can yield surprises.  It’s also been great 
to observe the most constant natural features of the park in sharper detail, 
its rock outcroppings & varied landforms (& a shout-out to Dr. Peter 
LeTourneau, PhD, who gave such an excellent talk -ahead of Noah Strycker’s 
delightful program on his “biggest year”- at a September meeting of the 
Linnaean Society of New York; Dr. LeTourneau, who is a regular C.P. birder, is 
also a geologist & has recently been working & publishing on the traprock 
ridges in central Connecticut), as well as the great variety of large, old 
trees growing all around Central (shout-out to Ned Barnard & Ken Chaya for the 
ground-breaking, unprecedented, and superbly-crafted Central Park Tree Map 
project) - which are so much a part of a majority of birding efforts put in 
here -in addition to all the many other plantings, newer & (some much) older, 
in every section.  

For sheer (& in my opinion, stunning) diversity of native plantings, the 
recently-refurbished Hallett Sanctuary has been wonderful, and helps illustrate 
what attractors native plants can be for native birds. That there is a terrific 
diversity of plants (all recently-added species therein being native to N. 
America, & most to the eastern U.S.) can’t hurt the odds that a wide variety of 
birds have been utilizing this small gem of a quiet-space (not open to the 
public before 10 a.m. nor after 5 p.m., but between those hours on a daily 
basis, at least in non-winter months) & the list of birds found there may only 
grow, as years pass - it also has potential for some further breeding-bird 
actvity as the fenced-gated aspect of the sanctuary is helpful in that regard.  
Of course it is also recognized that some of the visual features of Central 
Park, including even a few large boulders’ placement, are very much the result 
of the design-work of the park’s founding builder-architects, Calvert Vaux and 
Frederick Law Olmstead, that is: the earth was moved, and features of the land 
worked-on at the time of the park’s creation; more-modest works have continued 
there sporadically since.

At least 18 Warbler species on Friday, 10/13, from a walk taking in most of the 
park from north to south end & back again to the north end, over a course of 
ten hours.  Among the mini-hot-spots was a section of the bridle path by the E. 
Drive, near 97th-101st Sts. which is rarely-birded, but occasionally is 
productive for migrants.  I also covered the area of The Pond & Hallett 
Sanctuary, spending about 2 hours around there; while fairly good for warblers 
with 11 species just in & around the sanctuary & Pond edges - including 
Blackpoll, Magnolia, Northern Waterthrush, American Redstart & several 
Black-throated Blue & Black-and-white Warblers - I did not find a Hooded 
Warbler, a male-plumaged individual having been seen there on Wed., Oct. 11th 
(from a fellow birder) - which is a fairly late date for the species.

Friday also produced multiple sightings at the recently-opened meadow, planted 
with native wildflowers, north of the C.P. Zoo’s north gate (& just on the n. 
side of the E. 65th St. Transverse Road), with several warblers there of 
interest - Orange-crowned, in particular, as well as N. Parula, Black-throated 
Blue, Common Yellowthroat, & Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warblers.  In the northern 
parts (especially) of the park, earlier on Friday, were an impressive number of 
both Chipping Sparrow & Palm Warbler, the former in excess of 300, and the 
latter in the 100+ range - a location where each of these was abundant was 
along the outer-perimeter edges of the North Meadow ballfields, & esp. on & 
near its’ south & west perimeters.  To my sense, these appeared to be fresh, 
overnight arrivals to the park, despite overall feeling that the night prior 
had featured more exodus than arrival of migrants. Also in just-increased 
numbers were Song Sparrow, with up to 75 seen in total from the n. to s. ends 
of the park, in 10 hours walking. A few scattered locations in the southern 
third of the park had fair-sized Spizella [genus] sparrow flocks, with 
Chippings, as expected, the obvious majority.

Quite late in the day, it was a delight to find a highly-diverse group 
including young kids & “kids of all ages” (i.e. to & beyond senior-adult age) 
enjoying a lot of migrants, in quiet reverie, on the Great Hill (and around the 
n. end of the park generally), under the able leadership on a walk with Gabriel 
Willow, just one of the bird-walk guides with the non-profit N.Y. City Audubon 
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 10/13-14-15-16

2017-10-17 Thread Thomas Fiore 
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
Friday through Monday, 13th to 16th October, 2017 -

Having a very small part in a project on which Roger Pasquier, PhD has a role 
within one of his (not my) specialties, art-history, I’ve been getting into a 
few areas of the park I don’t wander as regularly each day out birding; some 
areas, as expected, have not yielded too much in either diversity or numbers of 
migrants, but any corner of the park can yield surprises.  It’s also been great 
to observe the most constant natural features of the park in sharper detail, 
its rock outcroppings & varied landforms (& a shout-out to Dr. Peter 
LeTourneau, PhD, who gave such an excellent talk -ahead of Noah Strycker’s 
delightful program on his “biggest year”- at a September meeting of the 
Linnaean Society of New York; Dr. LeTourneau, who is a regular C.P. birder, is 
also a geologist & has recently been working & publishing on the traprock 
ridges in central Connecticut), as well as the great variety of large, old 
trees growing all around Central (shout-out to Ned Barnard & Ken Chaya for the 
ground-breaking, unprecedented, and superbly-crafted Central Park Tree Map 
project) - which are so much a part of a majority of birding efforts put in 
here -in addition to all the many other plantings, newer & (some much) older, 
in every section.  

For sheer (& in my opinion, stunning) diversity of native plantings, the 
recently-refurbished Hallett Sanctuary has been wonderful, and helps illustrate 
what attractors native plants can be for native birds. That there is a terrific 
diversity of plants (all recently-added species therein being native to N. 
America, & most to the eastern U.S.) can’t hurt the odds that a wide variety of 
birds have been utilizing this small gem of a quiet-space (not open to the 
public before 10 a.m. nor after 5 p.m., but between those hours on a daily 
basis, at least in non-winter months) & the list of birds found there may only 
grow, as years pass - it also has potential for some further breeding-bird 
actvity as the fenced-gated aspect of the sanctuary is helpful in that regard.  
Of course it is also recognized that some of the visual features of Central 
Park, including even a few large boulders’ placement, are very much the result 
of the design-work of the park’s founding builder-architects, Calvert Vaux and 
Frederick Law Olmstead, that is: the earth was moved, and features of the land 
worked-on at the time of the park’s creation; more-modest works have continued 
there sporadically since.

At least 18 Warbler species on Friday, 10/13, from a walk taking in most of the 
park from north to south end & back again to the north end, over a course of 
ten hours.  Among the mini-hot-spots was a section of the bridle path by the E. 
Drive, near 97th-101st Sts. which is rarely-birded, but occasionally is 
productive for migrants.  I also covered the area of The Pond & Hallett 
Sanctuary, spending about 2 hours around there; while fairly good for warblers 
with 11 species just in & around the sanctuary & Pond edges - including 
Blackpoll, Magnolia, Northern Waterthrush, American Redstart & several 
Black-throated Blue & Black-and-white Warblers - I did not find a Hooded 
Warbler, a male-plumaged individual having been seen there on Wed., Oct. 11th 
(from a fellow birder) - which is a fairly late date for the species.

Friday also produced multiple sightings at the recently-opened meadow, planted 
with native wildflowers, north of the C.P. Zoo’s north gate (& just on the n. 
side of the E. 65th St. Transverse Road), with several warblers there of 
interest - Orange-crowned, in particular, as well as N. Parula, Black-throated 
Blue, Common Yellowthroat, & Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warblers.  In the northern 
parts (especially) of the park, earlier on Friday, were an impressive number of 
both Chipping Sparrow & Palm Warbler, the former in excess of 300, and the 
latter in the 100+ range - a location where each of these was abundant was 
along the outer-perimeter edges of the North Meadow ballfields, & esp. on & 
near its’ south & west perimeters.  To my sense, these appeared to be fresh, 
overnight arrivals to the park, despite overall feeling that the night prior 
had featured more exodus than arrival of migrants. Also in just-increased 
numbers were Song Sparrow, with up to 75 seen in total from the n. to s. ends 
of the park, in 10 hours walking. A few scattered locations in the southern 
third of the park had fair-sized Spizella [genus] sparrow flocks, with 
Chippings, as expected, the obvious majority.

Quite late in the day, it was a delight to find a highly-diverse group 
including young kids & “kids of all ages” (i.e. to & beyond senior-adult age) 
enjoying a lot of migrants, in quiet reverie, on the Great Hill (and around the 
n. end of the park generally), under the able leadership on a walk with Gabriel 
Willow, just one of the bird-walk guides with the non-profit N.Y. City Audubon 
Society