[nysbirds-l] Niagara Slaty-backed Gull photos

2011-12-08 Thread James Pawlicki
Some photos of the adult Slaty-backed Gull seen today on the shelf above Goat Island in Niagara Falls, NY can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmpawli10 and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23318380@N04/ Jim Pawlicki Amherst, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info:

[nysbirds-l] Lower Niagara River inc. Slaty-backed Gull - 8 Dec

2011-12-08 Thread James Pawlicki
Joe Mitchell, Bill Watson, and I met on the lower Niagara River today checking out Goat Island downriver to Lewiston. In Niagara Falls from the shore of Goat Island in the morning (just upstream from the Three Sisters Islands) we watched the continuing adult Slaty-backed Gull standing out on the

[nysbirds-l] Vulture Roost including Black Vulture

2011-12-08 Thread Willie D'Anna and Betsy Potter
On Wednesday, while in Queenston, Ontario, Jean Iron showed us a roost of vultures across the river about two miles away in Lewiston, NY. Being somewhat familiar with the village, I estimated where the roost might be and late today I searched the area and found it! It is in a residential

[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Dec 2011

2011-12-08 Thread dfsuggs
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/08/2011 * NYBU1112.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SLATY-BACKED GULL POMARINE JAEGER MARSH WREN WILSON'S WARBLER RAZORBILL AMER.

[nysbirds-l] American Avocet - Coney Island Creek, Brooklyn

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Bate
The Avocet continues! I saw it late in the day today in Coney Island Creek after I birded with Sy Schiff, Joe Giunta and the crew at Jones Beach earlier. The Avocet seems to be regular in the northern cove of Coney Island Creek. To get there, park by the baseball fields near Home Depot, cross

[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach and Pt. Lookout

2011-12-08 Thread Sy Schiff
Jones Beach & Pt. Lookout 8 Dec. I joined Joe Giunta's 200 Challenge Group for an end of season birding trip to the beach. Weather cold and very windy. Highlights included an exceptionally late PIPING PLOVER in the swale at Jones Beach West End 2 and a male HARLEQUIN DUCK at PT. LOOKOUT. The

[nysbirds-l] American Avocet - Coney Island Creek, Brooklyn

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Bate
The Avocet continues! I saw it late in the day today in Coney Island Creek after I birded with Sy Schiff, Joe Giunta and the crew at Jones Beach earlier. The Avocet seems to be regular in the northern cove of Coney Island Creek. To get there, park by the baseball fields near Home Depot, cross

[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Dec 2011

2011-12-08 Thread dfsuggs
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/08/2011 * NYBU1112.08 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- SLATY-BACKED GULL POMARINE JAEGER MARSH WREN WILSON'S WARBLER RAZORBILL AMER.

[nysbirds-l] Vulture Roost including Black Vulture

2011-12-08 Thread Willie D'Anna and Betsy Potter
On Wednesday, while in Queenston, Ontario, Jean Iron showed us a roost of vultures across the river about two miles away in Lewiston, NY. Being somewhat familiar with the village, I estimated where the roost might be and late today I searched the area and found it! It is in a residential

[nysbirds-l] Lower Niagara River inc. Slaty-backed Gull - 8 Dec

2011-12-08 Thread James Pawlicki
Joe Mitchell, Bill Watson, and I met on the lower Niagara River today checking out Goat Island downriver to Lewiston. In Niagara Falls from the shore of Goat Island in the morning (just upstream from the Three Sisters Islands) we watched the continuing adult Slaty-backed Gull standing out on the

[nysbirds-l] Niagara Slaty-backed Gull photos

2011-12-08 Thread James Pawlicki
Some photos of the adult Slaty-backed Gull seen today on the shelf above Goat Island in Niagara Falls, NY can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmpawli10 and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23318380@N04/ Jim Pawlicki Amherst, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: