[nysbirds-l] The 2017-2018 CBC is just around the corner!

2017-11-01 Thread Carena Pooth
Hello CBCers! It's that time of year again! The next CBC runs from December 14, 2017 through January 5, 2018. If you are a CBC compiler/coordinator, please help us build an accurate 2017/2018 Christmas Bird Count schedule.to help get as many volunteers involved in the count as

[nysbirds-l] The 2017-2018 CBC is just around the corner!

2017-11-01 Thread Carena Pooth
Hello CBCers! It's that time of year again! The next CBC runs from December 14, 2017 through January 5, 2018. If you are a CBC compiler/coordinator, please help us build an accurate 2017/2018 Christmas Bird Count schedule.to help get as many volunteers involved in the count as

[nysbirds-l] Leucistic Common Grackle

2017-11-01 Thread Steve Walter
It's that time of year when the great flock descends upon my neighborhood in Queens. When I was driving back to the house, the Common Grackle flock was conveniently around the 76th Ave. parking lot in Alley Pond Park. So why not look them over just in case there might be something with a yellow

[nysbirds-l] Leucistic Common Grackle

2017-11-01 Thread Steve Walter
It's that time of year when the great flock descends upon my neighborhood in Queens. When I was driving back to the house, the Common Grackle flock was conveniently around the 76th Ave. parking lot in Alley Pond Park. So why not look them over just in case there might be something with a yellow

[nysbirds-l] Heckscher State Park

2017-11-01 Thread Sy Schiff
Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) went to Heckscher SP after a brief stop at Jones Beach (20 + Surf Scoter still in inlet seen from parking lot and a Lesser Black-backed Gull on West End lot). Field #7 at Heckscher was filled with large puddles and is surrounded with grassy lawn, perfect shorebird

[nysbirds-l] Heckscher State Park

2017-11-01 Thread Sy Schiff
Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) went to Heckscher SP after a brief stop at Jones Beach (20 + Surf Scoter still in inlet seen from parking lot and a Lesser Black-backed Gull on West End lot). Field #7 at Heckscher was filled with large puddles and is surrounded with grassy lawn, perfect shorebird

[nysbirds-l] Possible Black-bellied Whistling Duck Avon DEC Pond, Livingston County

2017-11-01 Thread Wasilco, Mike R (DEC)
I just had a bird fly out of the roosting geese at the pond here at the Avon DEC office that my first impression was that it was a weird goose with a chestnut colored body with black toward the rear, pink bill, and black wings with a prominent white stripe down the greater and lesser coverts on

[nysbirds-l] Possible Black-bellied Whistling Duck Avon DEC Pond, Livingston County

2017-11-01 Thread Wasilco, Mike R (DEC)
I just had a bird fly out of the roosting geese at the pond here at the Avon DEC office that my first impression was that it was a weird goose with a chestnut colored body with black toward the rear, pink bill, and black wings with a prominent white stripe down the greater and lesser coverts on