Southold, North Rd West of Mudd Vineyards
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34769...@n00/sets/72157624661686085/
No black on the white one. Grey looks like a combo?
Not the best pix - poor light + pretty steady rain, I've cropped and
enlarged what I could.
Thoughts?
Susan Herbst
graphic
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 20, 2010
* NYNY1008.20
- Birds mentioned
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
BROWN PELICAN
Semipalmated Plover
AMERICAN AVOCET
Oops, I erred in my last post. I MEANT to type Cow MEADOW Park.
Cow Harbor is in Northport.
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After earlier (12:30-4:20), unremarkable visits to Jones Beach west end
and Oceanside (no Buff-breasted Sandpiper or Avocet), I paid a visit to
Cow Harbor Park in Freeport ~4:30 to look for shorebirds on the pond and
marsh. The latter had low numbers of common species (Black-bellied and
8/10/10 Ferd's Bog & Shallow Lake Trail in Hamilton Co.
I guided a wonderful group of people to Ferd's Bog and Shallow Lake on
Tuesday, Aug. 10th. The group of 6 included a 7-year-old up and coming
birder named Gregory from New Jersey! He is interested in birds, insects,
and amphibians. His
(We have been in the process of moving back to our Long Lake house full-time
this summer, so I apologize for late reports.)
8/19 & 8/21/10 Long Lake (Hamilton Co.)
At ~ 3 p.m. on Thursday, a juvenile Northern Goshawk was observed standing
on Tarbell Hill Lane as I drove a group of
Following on from Shai's post, migration was also very much in evidence at
Mecox Bay (near Watermill, Suffolk Co.) earlier this morning with various
shorebirds making brief visits and then seeming to move on. Andy Guthrie
(yes, him again) and I witnessed a *MARBLED GODWIT* drop out of the sky onto
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
A Mourning Warbler was studied at the "upper lobe" area of the lake
shore in Central Park at the western edge of the Ramble area. The
observer a very keen birder who once was more regular in Central, now
a loyal Brooklyn-ite, the date was Friday, 20
I wasn't planning on looking much for the BBWD today. I was on my way to
look for the Buff-breasted Sandpiper at the Elba Mucklands (not seen today)
and was driving by the spot, so of course I had to take a quick look. After
a couple of minutes of carefully scanning the cattails, I found the
Some readers might recall recent efforts by various observers to nail down a
tally for the Marbled Godwits in the Cupsogue, Suffolk County, area. This
afternoon, Andy Guthrie, Patricia Lindsay and I counted zero at Pikes Beach,
then six on the northeast peak of the main flats at Cupsogue, then
Sullivan County's streak of good birding continued today. This morning I
found a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER (good photos)at the Apollo Plaza (our second in a
week). This very cooperative bird was seen by many throughout the day. Arlene
Borko, Renee Davis, Marge Gorton and I birded both Apollo and
On 8/19/10 I saw two DC Cormorants in a putrid looking large marsh across
County Road 39 from Sipple's Farm at 1245 County Road 39 in Afton. It is not
often that Cormorants are seen in southern tier counties and I wonder if these
might be a first recording for the county. This marsh might be
I read with interest the comments following the report of our first
reported Buff-breasted Sandpiper for Long Island this summer in the
post to this list from Doug Gochfeld of Brooklyn, NY. Although I
agree with almost everything he wrote, I'm also commenting on his
comments regarding
I read with interest the comments following the report of our first
reported Buff-breasted Sandpiper for Long Island this summer in the
post to this list from Doug Gochfeld of Brooklyn, NY. Although I
agree with almost everything he wrote, I'm also commenting on his
comments regarding
On 8/19/10 I saw two DC Cormorants in a putrid looking large marsh across
County Road 39 from Sipple's Farm at 1245 County Road 39 in Afton. It is not
often that Cormorants are seen in southern tier counties and I wonder if these
might be a first recording for the county. This marsh might be
Sullivan County's streak of good birding continued today. This morning I
found a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER (good photos)at the Apollo Plaza (our second in a
week). This very cooperative bird was seen by many throughout the day. Arlene
Borko, Renee Davis, Marge Gorton and I birded both Apollo and
Some readers might recall recent efforts by various observers to nail down a
tally for the Marbled Godwits in the Cupsogue, Suffolk County, area. This
afternoon, Andy Guthrie, Patricia Lindsay and I counted zero at Pikes Beach,
then six on the northeast peak of the main flats at Cupsogue, then
I wasn't planning on looking much for the BBWD today. I was on my way to
look for the Buff-breasted Sandpiper at the Elba Mucklands (not seen today)
and was driving by the spot, so of course I had to take a quick look. After
a couple of minutes of carefully scanning the cattails, I found the
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
A Mourning Warbler was studied at the upper lobe area of the lake
shore in Central Park at the western edge of the Ramble area. The
observer a very keen birder who once was more regular in Central, now
a loyal Brooklyn-ite, the date was Friday, 20 August.
Following on from Shai's post, migration was also very much in evidence at
Mecox Bay (near Watermill, Suffolk Co.) earlier this morning with various
shorebirds making brief visits and then seeming to move on. Andy Guthrie
(yes, him again) and I witnessed a *MARBLED GODWIT* drop out of the sky onto
(We have been in the process of moving back to our Long Lake house full-time
this summer, so I apologize for late reports.)
8/19 8/21/10 Long Lake (Hamilton Co.)
At ~ 3 p.m. on Thursday, a juvenile Northern Goshawk was observed standing
on Tarbell Hill Lane as I drove a group of teenagers
8/10/10 Ferd's Bog Shallow Lake Trail in Hamilton Co.
I guided a wonderful group of people to Ferd's Bog and Shallow Lake on
Tuesday, Aug. 10th. The group of 6 included a 7-year-old up and coming
birder named Gregory from New Jersey! He is interested in birds, insects,
and amphibians. His
After earlier (12:30-4:20), unremarkable visits to Jones Beach west end
and Oceanside (no Buff-breasted Sandpiper or Avocet), I paid a visit to
Cow Harbor Park in Freeport ~4:30 to look for shorebirds on the pond and
marsh. The latter had low numbers of common species (Black-bellied and
Oops, I erred in my last post. I MEANT to type Cow MEADOW Park.
Cow Harbor is in Northport.
--
NYSbirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES
ARCHIVES:
1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html
2)
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 20, 2010
* NYNY1008.20
- Birds mentioned
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
BROWN PELICAN
Semipalmated Plover
AMERICAN AVOCET
Southold, North Rd West of Mudd Vineyards
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34769...@n00/sets/72157624661686085/
No black on the white one. Grey looks like a combo?
Not the best pix - poor light + pretty steady rain, I've cropped and
enlarged what I could.
Thoughts?
Susan Herbst
graphic
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