[nysbirds-l] Bryant Park Woodcocks
One more woodcock during Gabriel Willow's walk Thursday evening hiding in daffodil patch in the southeast corner perpendicular to garden shed and Gertrude Stein statue. Also the FOS warblers- yellow rumps high in the London Plane trees on the south side. Happy city birding. Alan Drogin 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] Bryant Park Woodcocks
One more woodcock during Gabriel Willow's walk Thursday evening hiding in daffodil patch in the southeast corner perpendicular to garden shed and Gertrude Stein statue. Also the FOS warblers- yellow rumps high in the London Plane trees on the south side. Happy city birding. Alan Drogin 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] Bryant Park Woodcocks
At least 2 more American Woodcocks arrived at Bryant Park today (the third one I saw may have been the first flying to a new location). They were at the garden house in the southeast corner, the northwest corner side across from the Patenque court, and the center ivy plot west of the birdbath. Alan Drogin 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] Bryant Park Woodcocks
At least 2 more American Woodcocks arrived at Bryant Park today (the third one I saw may have been the first flying to a new location). They were at the garden house in the southeast corner, the northwest corner side across from the Patenque court, and the center ivy plot west of the birdbath. Alan Drogin 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] Bryant Park Woodcocks
Co-worker Bill on his way home alerted me to multiple American Woodcock sightings in Central Park (probably meant Prospect). So I resumed my daily watch just before dusk today. All the daffodils, which were days away from blooming on Monday, were covered in snow so that only a few green tips peaked above the frozen white expanse as if in a sick replay of breaking ground two weeks earlier. Many of the paths were not plowed or blocked off for the demolition of the skating rink, but nevertheless, even in the failing light, the vast whiteness would make the woodcocks easy to spot. Sure enough, I found two in the northwest corner close to the plowed paths. One under the evergreen in the corner of the lawn’s cement colonnade, the other under a bush perpendicular to the welcome sign and Wafels & Dinges. Both puffed up and perfectly still. The latter looked okay, eyes closed, breathing, although it had some reddish debris at its bill tip. I feel some guilt about writing “harbingers of Spring”, they appear to bearing the brunt of some joke played by Old Man Winter on us all. Happy (real soon) birding, Alan Drogin -- 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] Bryant Park Woodcocks
Co-worker Bill on his way home alerted me to multiple American Woodcock sightings in Central Park (probably meant Prospect). So I resumed my daily watch just before dusk today. All the daffodils, which were days away from blooming on Monday, were covered in snow so that only a few green tips peaked above the frozen white expanse as if in a sick replay of breaking ground two weeks earlier. Many of the paths were not plowed or blocked off for the demolition of the skating rink, but nevertheless, even in the failing light, the vast whiteness would make the woodcocks easy to spot. Sure enough, I found two in the northwest corner close to the plowed paths. One under the evergreen in the corner of the lawn’s cement colonnade, the other under a bush perpendicular to the welcome sign and Wafels & Dinges. Both puffed up and perfectly still. The latter looked okay, eyes closed, breathing, although it had some reddish debris at its bill tip. I feel some guilt about writing “harbingers of Spring”, they appear to bearing the brunt of some joke played by Old Man Winter on us all. Happy (real soon) birding, Alan Drogin -- 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] Bryant Park Woodcocks & other migrants
This morning I led the first of the season's series of walks in Bryant Park with NYC Audubon. It was a lovely morning, and the park had a nice diversity of birds, in spite of the large numbers of humans and the relative lack of plant cover. The highlights of the morning included two male Eastern Towhees hopping around out in the open in the middle of the lawn, along with at least a dozen Song Sparrows and three Dark-eyed Juncos. I suspect they all landed together last night. Later in the season the towhees tend to hide in hedges, but while migrating unexpected behaviors can be seen. The other highlight was not one but two American Woodcocks sheltering in the vegetation of the hedgerow on the south side of the lawn. One of the birds was actively bobbing along and probing the soil for worms, the other was hunkered down sleeping under a yew shrub, seemingly as oblivious of the numerous people hurrying to work on a path a few feet away as they were of it. One of my favorite aspects of birding in Bryant Park is seeing how many people can walk right by such a remarkable bird as a woodcock without even realizing it's there; even better is when the commuters see a group of people staring with binoculars, and are surprised to discover what they're looking at. Other species seen were many White-throated Sparrows, two Hermit Thrushes, a Northern Flicker, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and a small flock of American Robins. Onward, Gabriel WillowNYC Audubon -- 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] Bryant Park Woodcocks other migrants
This morning I led the first of the season's series of walks in Bryant Park with NYC Audubon. It was a lovely morning, and the park had a nice diversity of birds, in spite of the large numbers of humans and the relative lack of plant cover. The highlights of the morning included two male Eastern Towhees hopping around out in the open in the middle of the lawn, along with at least a dozen Song Sparrows and three Dark-eyed Juncos. I suspect they all landed together last night. Later in the season the towhees tend to hide in hedges, but while migrating unexpected behaviors can be seen. The other highlight was not one but two American Woodcocks sheltering in the vegetation of the hedgerow on the south side of the lawn. One of the birds was actively bobbing along and probing the soil for worms, the other was hunkered down sleeping under a yew shrub, seemingly as oblivious of the numerous people hurrying to work on a path a few feet away as they were of it. One of my favorite aspects of birding in Bryant Park is seeing how many people can walk right by such a remarkable bird as a woodcock without even realizing it's there; even better is when the commuters see a group of people staring with binoculars, and are surprised to discover what they're looking at. Other species seen were many White-throated Sparrows, two Hermit Thrushes, a Northern Flicker, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and a small flock of American Robins. Onward, Gabriel WillowNYC Audubon -- 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/ --
