[nysbirds-l] Interesting Brooklyn Sighting

[Rob Jett]

Sorry for the late report, but I’ve been without cellphone today.

This morning was leading my Sunday “Birding in Peace” tour in Brooklyn’s 
Green-Wood Cemetery and I am nearly 100% certain we had a Sandhill Crane. At 
around 8:30am we were coming around the NE corner of the Sylvan Water, the 
cemetery’s largest body of water. Walking behind a row of mausoleums our view 
of the water and surrounding grass was partially blocked. I heard a very loud 
trumpeting-like sound. It seemed so inconcruous that I momentarily thought 
there was a person at the waters edge making silly noises. People in the group 
asked what was making the odd sound. I walked towards the water and scanned for 
a moment, saw nothing, then one of the participants, Heidi Clevins, spotted 
heading over the trees towards the northeast what she described as a massive, 
gray bird (“Almost the color of a Little Blue Heron”). I contacted Tom Preston, 
who was in GWC, and he put out the word. When people asked whether it was a 
large heron or egret, I said, no, as those species mostly make deep, guttural 
sounds. Being iPhone-less I asked someone with a smartphone to call up Sandhill 
Crane and play the vocalizations. It sounded exactly like what we had just 
heard.

My tour was just ending, so several of us spend a couple more hours scouring 
the cemetery but came up empty. I haven’t checked online for any nearby reports 
yet.

Good birding,

Rob
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[nysbirds-l] Smr Tanager summit rock CP

[Rick]

At 7:35, a male.


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[nysbirds-l] Red-throated Loon Bronx

[Dawn Hannay]

There's a late Red-throated Loon close to shore at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay 
Park this morning.
Dawn Hannay

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[nysbirds-l] Winding Waters Yellow-breasted Chat

[Alan Wells]

Yellow-breasted Chat found at approximately 9:30 am 5/20/2017 at Winding
Waters Trail, Wallkill River NWR, Orange Co., NY. Singing from two large
trees near the Fonzin Family Bench, about 1/3 mi from parking area just off
Oil City/Stateline Rd (just where the river and trail bend to the left,
41.290995,-74.529332).

 

Alan Wells


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[nysbirds-l] Gardiner County Park

[syschiff]

Joe Giunta and I(Sy Schiff)  birded Gardiner Co. Park, Suffolk Co. this 
morning. No migrants were found, but the walk to the marsh was a delightful 
expanse of singing, breeding birds. At the marsh, to our left were 4 SALTMARSH 
SPARROWS; to our right 3 SEASIDE SPARROWS. Just before the marsh, a WILLOW 
FLYCATCHER was singing high in the trees.

Shorebirds were few but included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LEAST SANDPIPER, 
WILLET and GREATER YELLOWLEGS. A lone GREAT EGRET was in the marsh. A pair of 
OSPREY were in the air.

YELLOW WARBLERS were everywhere. (Joe counted 14--could have been more); 
vireos consisted of WARBLING, RED-EYED and WHITE-EYED; 
flycatchers--GREAT-CRESTED and WILLOW; woodpeckers--DOWNY, HAIRY and 
RED-BELLIED.There was RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, HOUSE WREN, CEDAR WAXWING, 
BLACK-and-WHITE WARBLER and a number of COMMON YELLOWTHROATS among other birds.

A delightful morning.  Sy
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[nysbirds-l] Hunter Island, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, Red-head Woodpecker, etc

[Jack Rothman]

Belated post-  from 5/20/17

The Red-headed Woodpecker is still here and awaits a female. He frequently 
attends to the tree cavity he “appropriated" from a nesting Redbellied.
As I mentioned in a previous post, all of the nearby cavities are now cleared 
because of him. This fellow is tough, I guess he’s a Bronx bird.

also:
Blackpoll Warbler 
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Green 
American Redstart
Magnolia Warbler
Carolina Wren
Gray Catbird
Eastern Towhee
Baltimore Oriole
Veery
Ovenbird
Orchard Oriole
Common Yellowthroat
Downy Woodpecker
Wood Thrush
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Mourning Dove
American Robin
Common Grackle
American Robin
Blue Jay

Jack Rothman and “Bronx" Brendan Keogh
cityislandbirds.com





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[nysbirds-l] Governors Island: Sun. 21-May-2017

[Ben Cacace]

NY County highlights: Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper (5), Common
Tern (29+), Ruby-throated Hummingbird & Killdeer (4+).

1st hour: 22 spp., 2nd: +5, 3rd: +7, 4th: +7, 5th: +4

Full checklist (45 spp.): http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37051234
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[nysbirds-l] Chuck-wills-widow - Quogue

[Eileen Schwinn]

A Chuck-wills-widow was heard this evening at 8:20pm,  in a wooded area north 
of Montauk Hwy, south of Old Country Rd(and the Quogue Wildlife Refuge), and 
east of Quantuck Bay.  The bird called for 6 minutes.
Whip-poor-wills were also heard along Steward Ave. and at the Town of 
Southampton baseball fields and tennis courts, at the Coast Guard Housing Area 
across from Gabreski Airport, a little later in the evening.
Eileen Schwinn

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[nysbirds-l] Smr Tanager summit rock CP

[Rick]

At 7:35, a male.


Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

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[nysbirds-l] Winding Waters Yellow-breasted Chat

[Alan Wells]

Yellow-breasted Chat found at approximately 9:30 am 5/20/2017 at Winding
Waters Trail, Wallkill River NWR, Orange Co., NY. Singing from two large
trees near the Fonzin Family Bench, about 1/3 mi from parking area just off
Oil City/Stateline Rd (just where the river and trail bend to the left,
41.290995,-74.529332).

 

Alan Wells


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[nysbirds-l] Red-throated Loon Bronx

[Dawn Hannay]

There's a late Red-throated Loon close to shore at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay 
Park this morning.
Dawn Hannay

Sent from my iPhone
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[nysbirds-l] Gardiner County Park

[syschiff]

Joe Giunta and I(Sy Schiff)  birded Gardiner Co. Park, Suffolk Co. this 
morning. No migrants were found, but the walk to the marsh was a delightful 
expanse of singing, breeding birds. At the marsh, to our left were 4 SALTMARSH 
SPARROWS; to our right 3 SEASIDE SPARROWS. Just before the marsh, a WILLOW 
FLYCATCHER was singing high in the trees.

Shorebirds were few but included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LEAST SANDPIPER, 
WILLET and GREATER YELLOWLEGS. A lone GREAT EGRET was in the marsh. A pair of 
OSPREY were in the air.

YELLOW WARBLERS were everywhere. (Joe counted 14--could have been more); 
vireos consisted of WARBLING, RED-EYED and WHITE-EYED; 
flycatchers--GREAT-CRESTED and WILLOW; woodpeckers--DOWNY, HAIRY and 
RED-BELLIED.There was RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, HOUSE WREN, CEDAR WAXWING, 
BLACK-and-WHITE WARBLER and a number of COMMON YELLOWTHROATS among other birds.

A delightful morning.  Sy
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[nysbirds-l] Hunter Island, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, Red-head Woodpecker, etc

[Jack Rothman]

Belated post-  from 5/20/17

The Red-headed Woodpecker is still here and awaits a female. He frequently 
attends to the tree cavity he “appropriated" from a nesting Redbellied.
As I mentioned in a previous post, all of the nearby cavities are now cleared 
because of him. This fellow is tough, I guess he’s a Bronx bird.

also:
Blackpoll Warbler 
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Green 
American Redstart
Magnolia Warbler
Carolina Wren
Gray Catbird
Eastern Towhee
Baltimore Oriole
Veery
Ovenbird
Orchard Oriole
Common Yellowthroat
Downy Woodpecker
Wood Thrush
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Mourning Dove
American Robin
Common Grackle
American Robin
Blue Jay

Jack Rothman and “Bronx" Brendan Keogh
cityislandbirds.com





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[nysbirds-l] Governors Island: Sun. 21-May-2017

[Ben Cacace]

NY County highlights: Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper (5), Common
Tern (29+), Ruby-throated Hummingbird & Killdeer (4+).

1st hour: 22 spp., 2nd: +5, 3rd: +7, 4th: +7, 5th: +4

Full checklist (45 spp.): http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37051234
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Manhattan, NYC
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[nysbirds-l] Chuck-wills-widow - Quogue

[Eileen Schwinn]

A Chuck-wills-widow was heard this evening at 8:20pm,  in a wooded area north 
of Montauk Hwy, south of Old Country Rd(and the Quogue Wildlife Refuge), and 
east of Quantuck Bay.  The bird called for 6 minutes.
Whip-poor-wills were also heard along Steward Ave. and at the Town of 
Southampton baseball fields and tennis courts, at the Coast Guard Housing Area 
across from Gabreski Airport, a little later in the evening.
Eileen Schwinn

Sent from my iPhone

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[nysbirds-l] Interesting Brooklyn Sighting

[Rob Jett]

Sorry for the late report, but I’ve been without cellphone today.

This morning was leading my Sunday “Birding in Peace” tour in Brooklyn’s 
Green-Wood Cemetery and I am nearly 100% certain we had a Sandhill Crane. At 
around 8:30am we were coming around the NE corner of the Sylvan Water, the 
cemetery’s largest body of water. Walking behind a row of mausoleums our view 
of the water and surrounding grass was partially blocked. I heard a very loud 
trumpeting-like sound. It seemed so inconcruous that I momentarily thought 
there was a person at the waters edge making silly noises. People in the group 
asked what was making the odd sound. I walked towards the water and scanned for 
a moment, saw nothing, then one of the participants, Heidi Clevins, spotted 
heading over the trees towards the northeast what she described as a massive, 
gray bird (“Almost the color of a Little Blue Heron”). I contacted Tom Preston, 
who was in GWC, and he put out the word. When people asked whether it was a 
large heron or egret, I said, no, as those species mostly make deep, guttural 
sounds. Being iPhone-less I asked someone with a smartphone to call up Sandhill 
Crane and play the vocalizations. It sounded exactly like what we had just 
heard.

My tour was just ending, so several of us spend a couple more hours scouring 
the cemetery but came up empty. I haven’t checked online for any nearby reports 
yet.

Good birding,

Rob
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