[nysbirds-l] EPCAL to the rescue !

Due to the time restraint of just a few hours to bird starting from the Riverhead area, when Dave Larsen (a long-time, local birding friend who now lives in Virginia, picked me up, Epcal seemed the best choice for avian action ! Stopping first at the "radar station" opposite the Calverton Grasslan

[nysbirds-l] A day of sea watching on Long Island

Tom Burke and I started the day with a sea watch off of Robert Moses State Park beginning @ 8 am. The three-hour watch was slow, notable only for one Sooty Shearwater (seen twice) and one Cory's as pelagic birds. We drove east to Dune Road and a stop at Tiana Beach yielded 140 Short-billed Dowitc

[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots: State, Counties & Locations Updated (Jul/'16)

Thanks to @Team_eBird for their dedication to keeping eBird.org running smoothly and for the group of New York State hotspot moderators for their time reviewing shared location suggestions. This message relates to wiki pages I've developed to access data on eBird.org including additional links to

[nysbirds-l] Wilson's Storm Petrels off Ft. Tilden

Encouraged by Heydi Lopes find of one in Deadhorse Bay I got to the beach. Have seen 4 so far. All going west to east. These are the first I've seen in NYC since before Hurricane Sandy. Isaac Grant Senior Loan Officer -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME htt

[nysbirds-l] Belated East Pond Report 7-7-16

The Short-billed Dowitcher number cracked the century mark on Thursday, nearing 200 based on my count from early that morning. In a surprise, Mute Swans were down to 74 (yeah, I know you are alldying to know this data). No sign of the ringed Double-crested Cormorants or the Glossy Ibis but I ha