[nysbirds-l] Slide Mt. 6/14

2015-06-15 Thread Sean Camillieri 
 My apologies for the late report. I made my yearly hike up Slide yesterday
morning hoping for Bicknell's Thrush among the other usual characters.The
weather was perfect, no wind or clouds in sight. I began at 0630 and
finished at 1200. The hike was more quiet than previous years but I chalked
that up to going up in the middle of the breeding season when most of the
birds were most likely on eggs. I saw/heard the following:

Red-eyed Vireo-3
Least Flycatcher- 2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher- 2 (birds simultaneously calling below first
"lookout" on the left side of the trail)
Black-throated Green Warbler- 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler- 6
American Redstart- 2
Blackburnian Warbler- 4
Magnolia Warbler -1
Yellow-rumped Warbler- 5
Blackpoll Warbler- 4
Ovenbird- 7
Black-and-white Warbler- 1
Purple Finch- 1
Dark-eyed Junco- 3
White-throated Sparrow- 4
Hermit Thrush- 1
Swainson's Thrush- 2 (heard  and seen close to the summit)
Bicknell's Thrush- 3 (maybe 4, birds were heard on the summit and when I
stopped to try and see one, one flushed from above me and 2-3 others were
zipping around calling and singing. Point blank looks.
Wood Thrush- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch- 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet- 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 2
Winter Wren- 5
Black-capped Chickadee- 1

All in all it was a great day!

Sean Camillieri

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[nysbirds-l] Syracuse RBA

2015-06-15 Thread Joseph Brin 
RBA *  New York*  Syracuse* June 15, 2015*  NYSY  06. 15. 15 Hotline: Syracuse 
Rare bird AlertDates(s):June 08, 2015 - June 15, 2015to report by e-mail: 
brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National 
Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga 
County),Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison & 
Cortlandcompiled: June 15  AT 5:00 p.m. (DST)compiler: Joseph BrinOnondaga 
Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org  #446 Monday June 15, 2015 Greetings. 
This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of June 08, 2014 
Highlights:---LEAST BITTERN GLOSSY IBISBLACK-CROWNED NIGHT 
HERONSANDHILL CRANEBLUE-WINGED TEALBLACK-BELLIED PLOVERUPLAND SANDPIPERBLACK 
TERNCOMMON NIGHTHAWKRED-HEADED WOODPECKERPROTHONOTARY WARBLERHENSLOW’S 
SPARROWORCHARD ORIOLEPINE SISKIN


Montezuma National Wildlife Complex (MNWC) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex 
(MWC)
     6/12: SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, KILLDEER and SOLITARY 
SANDPIPER were all seen on the Main Pool. These are virtually the only 
shorebird species seen anywhere on the complex this week.     6/14: A 
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues on Mays Point Pool Road. A BLACK-CROWNED 
NIGHT-HERON was seen from East Road. 2 adult and one young SANDHILL CRANES were 
seen in Knox-Marsellus Marsh. A LEAST BITTERN was seen in the Deep Muck and 
Mitigation area south of Savannah Spring Lake Road. 2 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS 
were see in a kayak trip around Howland Island. Many CERULEAN WARBLERS were 
also noted.     BLACK TERNS, CERULEAN WARBLERS and BLUE-WING TEAL were also 
noted in the Complex this week.

Onondaga County
     6/9: A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was seen at Three rivers WMA north of 
Baldwinsville.     6/11: 4 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are still being seen at the 
Hundred Acre Marsh at Three Rivers WMA. 8 SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS were seen in 
a wet area on East Sorrell Hill Road south of Conners road in Van Buren.     
6/13: A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was seen on Potter Road in Three Rivers WMA. 5 
ORCHARD ORIOLES were seen at Green Lakes State Park.

Oswego County
     6/9: A BLACK TERN was seen on Lake Ontario from Rainbow Shores Road.     
6/13: A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was seen on McDougall Road.

Oneida County
     6/10: 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS and a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen on Harris 
Road in the Town of Deerfield

Herkimer County
     6/9: A PINE SISKIN was seen near Dolgeville.

Jefferson County
     6/12: A GLOSSY IBIS was seen from Vaadi Road at the Perch River WMA     
6/14: A HENSLOW’S SPARROW was seen at the Perch River WMA.  






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Joseph BrinRegion 5Baldwinsville, N.Y.  13027  U.S.A.  

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[nysbirds-l] Queens County Bird Club - Upcoming Meeting - Wed. 06/17 - Helen Forgione - NYC Natural Areas Conservancy.

2015-06-15 Thread Nancy Tognan 
The *Queens County Bird Club Inc.* will be meeting at the Alley Pond
Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd Douglaston, NY 11362
 >Map of location<  

 

at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.  Free admission.  Refreshments
served.  (Free ice cream - this month only!)

Public transportation users:  Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you can either walk, take Q12 bus, or use car service located at
station.

Our speaker will be Helen Forgione of the NYC Natural Areas Conservancy,
discussing ecological assessments of many of our local parks.

 

 The Natural Areas Conservancy  (NAC) works with the New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation to protect, restore, and manage expansive
natural areas already within the city's urban park system, including salt
marsh, freshwater wetland, grassland, and forest ecosystems.  Find out more
about the Ecological Assessments NAC completed in NYC over the last two
seasons covering over 10,000 acres, including the following parks in Queens:
Alley Pond Park, Cunningham, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Forest Park,
Idlewild Park, Jamaica Bay Park, Kissena Corridor & Kissena Park, Spring
Creek Park, Udall's Park Preserve.

 Helen Forgione is the Senior Project Manager for Ecological Assessment
for the Natural Areas Conservancy, where she designs a standardized and
adaptive methodology to assess Parks natural areas to inform the protection,
restoration and management strategies. Helen has worked in NYC and
regionally in the NYC Department of Environmental Protection where she
served as Deputy Director for the Office of Ecological Services and for the
Natural Resources Group in NYC Parks Department.  

  Helen has served in the region on boards of the Invasive Plant
Council of New York, The Metropolitan Forest Council and Nature Network.
She holds a MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Rutgers University
and a BS in Biology from the University of Connecticut.

 

Nancy Tognan 

nancy.tog...@gmail.com   
Vice President: *Queens County Bird Club Inc*. 
See http://www.qcbirdclub.org/ for more information on trips, speakers, and
other events! 
See our 'Birding Maps & Locations' page for directions to and info about
many local birding hotspots

* QCBC is a tax exempt, charitable organization {501c3}.  *

 


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[nysbirds-l] Queens County Bird Club - Upcoming Meeting - Wed. 06/17 - Helen Forgione - NYC Natural Areas Conservancy.

2015-06-15 Thread Nancy Tognan 
The *Queens County Bird Club Inc.* will be meeting at the Alley Pond
Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd Douglaston, NY 11362
http://goo.gl/8cnmjT Map of location  

 

at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.  Free admission.  Refreshments
served.  (Free ice cream - this month only!)

Public transportation users:  Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR
station; you can either walk, take Q12 bus, or use car service located at
station.

Our speaker will be Helen Forgione of the NYC Natural Areas Conservancy,
discussing ecological assessments of many of our local parks.

 

 The Natural Areas Conservancy  (NAC) works with the New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation to protect, restore, and manage expansive
natural areas already within the city's urban park system, including salt
marsh, freshwater wetland, grassland, and forest ecosystems.  Find out more
about the Ecological Assessments NAC completed in NYC over the last two
seasons covering over 10,000 acres, including the following parks in Queens:
Alley Pond Park, Cunningham, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Forest Park,
Idlewild Park, Jamaica Bay Park, Kissena Corridor  Kissena Park, Spring
Creek Park, Udall's Park Preserve.

 Helen Forgione is the Senior Project Manager for Ecological Assessment
for the Natural Areas Conservancy, where she designs a standardized and
adaptive methodology to assess Parks natural areas to inform the protection,
restoration and management strategies. Helen has worked in NYC and
regionally in the NYC Department of Environmental Protection where she
served as Deputy Director for the Office of Ecological Services and for the
Natural Resources Group in NYC Parks Department.  

  Helen has served in the region on boards of the Invasive Plant
Council of New York, The Metropolitan Forest Council and Nature Network.
She holds a MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Rutgers University
and a BS in Biology from the University of Connecticut.

 

Nancy Tognan 

nancy.tog...@gmail.com mailto:nancy.tog...@gmail.com  
Vice President: *Queens County Bird Club Inc*. 
See http://www.qcbirdclub.org/ for more information on trips, speakers, and
other events! 
See our 'Birding Maps  Locations' page for directions to and info about
many local birding hotspots

* QCBC is a tax exempt, charitable organization {501c3}.  *

 


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[nysbirds-l] Slide Mt. 6/14

2015-06-15 Thread Sean Camillieri 
 My apologies for the late report. I made my yearly hike up Slide yesterday
morning hoping for Bicknell's Thrush among the other usual characters.The
weather was perfect, no wind or clouds in sight. I began at 0630 and
finished at 1200. The hike was more quiet than previous years but I chalked
that up to going up in the middle of the breeding season when most of the
birds were most likely on eggs. I saw/heard the following:

Red-eyed Vireo-3
Least Flycatcher- 2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher- 2 (birds simultaneously calling below first
lookout on the left side of the trail)
Black-throated Green Warbler- 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler- 6
American Redstart- 2
Blackburnian Warbler- 4
Magnolia Warbler -1
Yellow-rumped Warbler- 5
Blackpoll Warbler- 4
Ovenbird- 7
Black-and-white Warbler- 1
Purple Finch- 1
Dark-eyed Junco- 3
White-throated Sparrow- 4
Hermit Thrush- 1
Swainson's Thrush- 2 (heard  and seen close to the summit)
Bicknell's Thrush- 3 (maybe 4, birds were heard on the summit and when I
stopped to try and see one, one flushed from above me and 2-3 others were
zipping around calling and singing. Point blank looks.
Wood Thrush- 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch- 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet- 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 2
Winter Wren- 5
Black-capped Chickadee- 1

All in all it was a great day!

Sean Camillieri

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