[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 10/20-24, including Y.-br. Chat & more
Yes, it is later in autumn, that time when so many birds can become not just “possible”!Wader (as ‘shorebirds’ are also called, by a majority of the world’s birders) watchers may already know of the COMMON GREENSHANK found by Sam Galick at Brigantine - Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, on the New Jersey shore, on Mon. (10/23) which may represent only about the 2nd or 3rd eastern N. American record (it’s an annual species in Alaska, but documented records in the east of this continent seem to include only a few scattered from e. Canada to Florida, with an additional record from the Atlantic island of Bermuda. Reports are on the New Jersey list-serves, & obviously will be written up for further documentation. Unfortunately for most others, many of whom drove to the refuge (including birders from outlying states), the Greenshank had not been re-found, as of the next day. It’s likely birders will continue to seek this wader.Some other area birds of note or interest just lately include the several adult Northern Shrikes that were photographed, one at coastal Connecticut, another slightly farther east in Massachusetts, just in the last few days, as well as the several LeConte’s Sparrows found (also in those 2 states) very recently, and the various “vagrant” flycatchers that have turned up in the northeast - including reports of Fork-tailed, Scissor-tailed, and Ash-throated Flycatchers, & that recent Orange Co., NY Say’s Phoebe (which was also photographed), and perhaps still other species in various eastern states in the past week. AND, if you really wanted to work on an eastern-continental rarity, there was the Yellow-breasted Bunting showing at a feeder in Labrador, Canada (on Oct. 16th) - http://blog.aba.org/2017/10/abarare-yellow-breasted-bunting-newfoundland-labrador.html - which struck a chord in me, as I know how much that species has declined in parts of its typical range in east Asia, where i’ve been able to connect with it (the good old wastewater-treatment ponds, just out of downtown Ulaan Bator, Mongolia one summer). Eastern Canada does receive some fascinating out-of-range birds, at all different seasons, and fortunately has some very keen observers. Much earlier this month, a Wood Stork was found in Delaware Co., NY by Doug Amadon, report (with photo link) has been on the Oswego-Birds list-serve, & thanks as always to Andy Mason - http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=13580- - - - - -Manhattan, N.Y. City - including Central Park in particular, & also parks from Inwood Hill at the northern end of Manhattan island, to islands off Manhattan which are politically in the same county with Manhattan (New York County) & some lower-Manhattan parks & green-spaces...Friday thru Tuesday, 20th to 24th October, 2017 - Good flights occurred both Thursday night into Friday, & again Friday night into Saturday, with yet more migrants still moving Sat. night. Sparrows were rather strongly featured in these flights, with a few less-commonly found species being noted. On Governor’s Island on Friday (10/20) I found a Clay-colored Sparrow, a bit east of the food courts & the dock area of Soisson’s Landing; this bird was photographed nicely. Kudos to Stefan Passlick who’s had a good several days finding Clay-colored Sparrow at the “Knoll” in Central Park’’s north end also on Friday 10/20 (& much later on that day seen & reported by Debbie Becker at the latter location, and then 2 days later, S. Passlick finding an E. Meadowlark (an increasingly tough “get” in Manhattan & especially so nowadays in Central Park) at the N. Meadow sports-field, in a section that’s been fenced-off and not in use for sports recently - that meadowlark, seen Sunday, observed ultimately by perhaps dozens of birders. It was even sought at the sunset hour that day, although not re-found quite that late (& apparently not in subsequent searches the next 2 days).On Saturday, Nate O’Reilly found at least 2 Vesper Sparrows among other migrant sparrows in a flock at Inwood Hill Park, in northern Manhattan. By Sunday, up to 4 Vesper Sparrows were being seen at Governor’s Island (which is in New York harbor, & is politically a part of N.Y. County which takes in all of Manhattan island) & these also were well-photographed (Karen Fung was among Saturday observers there who noted the four Vespers), after other observers had seen one, & then even greater numbers. (that species was also rather widely reported all around the region, as have been Clay-colored Sparrow, the latter a species which seems likely to be found with some increasing frequency in eastern NY & surrounds, as more of them are breeding in the northeast.) On Tuesday/24th Gabriel Willow, one of the bird-walk leaders with NYCAS (NY City Audubon Society) found that at least a couple of Vespers were still in the vicinity of Fort Jay, on Governor’s Island, and there are oher ongoing New York County reports of the species.At Fort Tryon Park, in northern Manhattan, a Yellow-breasted Chat
[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC 10/20-24, including Y.-br. Chat & more
Yes, it is later in autumn, that time when so many birds can become not just “possible”!Wader (as ‘shorebirds’ are also called, by a majority of the world’s birders) watchers may already know of the COMMON GREENSHANK found by Sam Galick at Brigantine - Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, on the New Jersey shore, on Mon. (10/23) which may represent only about the 2nd or 3rd eastern N. American record (it’s an annual species in Alaska, but documented records in the east of this continent seem to include only a few scattered from e. Canada to Florida, with an additional record from the Atlantic island of Bermuda. Reports are on the New Jersey list-serves, & obviously will be written up for further documentation. Unfortunately for most others, many of whom drove to the refuge (including birders from outlying states), the Greenshank had not been re-found, as of the next day. It’s likely birders will continue to seek this wader.Some other area birds of note or interest just lately include the several adult Northern Shrikes that were photographed, one at coastal Connecticut, another slightly farther east in Massachusetts, just in the last few days, as well as the several LeConte’s Sparrows found (also in those 2 states) very recently, and the various “vagrant” flycatchers that have turned up in the northeast - including reports of Fork-tailed, Scissor-tailed, and Ash-throated Flycatchers, & that recent Orange Co., NY Say’s Phoebe (which was also photographed), and perhaps still other species in various eastern states in the past week. AND, if you really wanted to work on an eastern-continental rarity, there was the Yellow-breasted Bunting showing at a feeder in Labrador, Canada (on Oct. 16th) - http://blog.aba.org/2017/10/abarare-yellow-breasted-bunting-newfoundland-labrador.html - which struck a chord in me, as I know how much that species has declined in parts of its typical range in east Asia, where i’ve been able to connect with it (the good old wastewater-treatment ponds, just out of downtown Ulaan Bator, Mongolia one summer). Eastern Canada does receive some fascinating out-of-range birds, at all different seasons, and fortunately has some very keen observers. Much earlier this month, a Wood Stork was found in Delaware Co., NY by Doug Amadon, report (with photo link) has been on the Oswego-Birds list-serve, & thanks as always to Andy Mason - http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=13580- - - - - -Manhattan, N.Y. City - including Central Park in particular, & also parks from Inwood Hill at the northern end of Manhattan island, to islands off Manhattan which are politically in the same county with Manhattan (New York County) & some lower-Manhattan parks & green-spaces...Friday thru Tuesday, 20th to 24th October, 2017 - Good flights occurred both Thursday night into Friday, & again Friday night into Saturday, with yet more migrants still moving Sat. night. Sparrows were rather strongly featured in these flights, with a few less-commonly found species being noted. On Governor’s Island on Friday (10/20) I found a Clay-colored Sparrow, a bit east of the food courts & the dock area of Soisson’s Landing; this bird was photographed nicely. Kudos to Stefan Passlick who’s had a good several days finding Clay-colored Sparrow at the “Knoll” in Central Park’’s north end also on Friday 10/20 (& much later on that day seen & reported by Debbie Becker at the latter location, and then 2 days later, S. Passlick finding an E. Meadowlark (an increasingly tough “get” in Manhattan & especially so nowadays in Central Park) at the N. Meadow sports-field, in a section that’s been fenced-off and not in use for sports recently - that meadowlark, seen Sunday, observed ultimately by perhaps dozens of birders. It was even sought at the sunset hour that day, although not re-found quite that late (& apparently not in subsequent searches the next 2 days).On Saturday, Nate O’Reilly found at least 2 Vesper Sparrows among other migrant sparrows in a flock at Inwood Hill Park, in northern Manhattan. By Sunday, up to 4 Vesper Sparrows were being seen at Governor’s Island (which is in New York harbor, & is politically a part of N.Y. County which takes in all of Manhattan island) & these also were well-photographed (Karen Fung was among Saturday observers there who noted the four Vespers), after other observers had seen one, & then even greater numbers. (that species was also rather widely reported all around the region, as have been Clay-colored Sparrow, the latter a species which seems likely to be found with some increasing frequency in eastern NY & surrounds, as more of them are breeding in the northeast.) On Tuesday/24th Gabriel Willow, one of the bird-walk leaders with NYCAS (NY City Audubon Society) found that at least a couple of Vespers were still in the vicinity of Fort Jay, on Governor’s Island, and there are oher ongoing New York County reports of the species.At Fort Tryon Park, in northern Manhattan, a Yellow-breasted Chat
[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach-Dickcissel Coast Guard
Miriam Rakowski, Louise Fraza , Anne Lazarus and I had Male dickcissel in parking lot at coast guard -2:30pm Golden plover continues at CG - this am 9:30 Dale Dancis Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach-Dickcissel Coast Guard
Miriam Rakowski, Louise Fraza , Anne Lazarus and I had Male dickcissel in parking lot at coast guard -2:30pm Golden plover continues at CG - this am 9:30 Dale Dancis Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside
Overcast day after the rain ended. Tide fairly high. Few birds but a cluster of sparrows along the path, by the bench on east ide of pond. It included 2 Song, 1 Swamp, 1 Savannah and 3 House Sparrows; 2 Saltmarsh Sparrows were there just off the path. Good looks at both, but not Nelson’s. Other birds were the continuing Snow Goose, both Egrets, a flyover Greater Yellowlegs calling and a flyover Easter Meadowlark. Sy Schiff Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside
Overcast day after the rain ended. Tide fairly high. Few birds but a cluster of sparrows along the path, by the bench on east ide of pond. It included 2 Song, 1 Swamp, 1 Savannah and 3 House Sparrows; 2 Saltmarsh Sparrows were there just off the path. Good looks at both, but not Nelson’s. Other birds were the continuing Snow Goose, both Egrets, a flyover Greater Yellowlegs calling and a flyover Easter Meadowlark. Sy Schiff Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
