[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Jun 2017

2017-06-08 Thread David Suggs
- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/08/2017
* NYBU1706.08
- Birds mentioned

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  BROWN PELICAN
  WILSON'S PHALAROPE
  American Bittern
  Least Bittern
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Trumpeter Swan
  Bald Eagle
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  White-r. Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Black Tern
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Whip-poor-will
  Alder Flycatcher
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Swainson's Thrush
  Northern Mockingbird
  Cedar Waxwing
  Yellow-thr. Vireo
  Red-eyed Vireo
  Cerulean Warbler
  Canada Warbler
  Yellow-br. Chat

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  Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date: 06/08/2017
  Number: 716-896-1271
  To Report: Same
  Compiler: David F. Suggs
  Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
  Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org

  Thursday, June 8, 2017

  The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided
  by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the
  Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the
  Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound
  key to report sightings before the end of this
  report.

  Highlights of reports received June 1 through
  June 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region.

  The BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara River
  was last reported June 4, off Black Rock Park
  in Buffalo.

  Shorebird migrants are still present. In
  Niagara County, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE from May
  31 to June 2, along Wilson-Youngstown Road,
  west of Fitch Road, in Wilson. In the Town of
  Somerset, at Lower Lake and Burgess Roads - 12
  SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 285 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS,
  1 WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, 5 DUNLIN, 7 SHORT-B.
  DOWITCHERS, numbers of KILLDEER and SPOTTED
  SANDPIPER, and a L. BLACK-B. GULL.

  In Ontario, shorebirds at the Mosaic Ponds,
  north of Rock Point Provincial Park in
  Dunnville, included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER,
  SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 20 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS,
  LEAST SANDPIPER and a probable BAIRD'S
  SANDPIPER.

  Also in Ontario, heard at the Wainfleet Bog
  along Wilson Road, at least 6 WHIP-POOR-WILLS,
  YELLOW-BR. CHAT, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and
  BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO.

  Later migrants on June 3 - GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH,
  SWAINSON'S THRUSH and CANADA WARBLER in a Town
  of Wilson yard.

  Summer residents in the Tonawanda Wildlife
  Management Area, along Owens Road, ALDER
  FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO
  and two CERULEAN WARBLERS. At Cayuga Pool in
  the Iroquois Refuge, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, LEAST
  BITTERN, 15 BLACK TERNS, 14 BL.-CR. NIGHT-
  HERONS and 2 TRUMPETER SWANS.

  Also this week - CEDAR WAXWING feeding on
  berries in a Cheektowaga yard. NORTHERN
  MOCKINGBIRD on River Road in North Tonawanda.
  And in the Lake Ontario Plains, a probable sub-
  adult BALD EAGLE taking prey from two adult
  BALD EAGLES.

  The final BOS meeting of the season will be the
  annual picnic at Tifft Nature Preserve in
  Buffalo, at 6 PM on Wednesday, June 14. Bring
  your meal and expect an evening hike through
  the preserve. Visitors are always welcome at
  BOS meetings.

  The Bird Report will be updated Thursday
  evening, June 15. Please call in your sightings
  by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
  after the tone. Thank you for calling and
  reporting.

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[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay - Least Bittern YES

2017-06-08 Thread Michael Zito
The least bittern continues at JBay, heard with Arie Gilbert.

Mike Z.

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[nysbirds-l] Purple Martin Croton Point Park

2017-06-08 Thread Larry Trachtenberg
There was a single Purple Martin perched on a bar of the newly installed martin 
complex at Croton Point Park this morning (7:05-7:15 a.m.). One of the houses 
is occupied by tree swallows but when buzzed by a swallow the martin did not 
seem concerned; indeed it took a pass at the swallow occupied house and 
re-perched to continue pruning. To my knowledge there are no breeding martin 
colonies in Westchester County. The bird appears to be juvenile not adult 
female. I am not sure how it can find and alert adults to this new 
construction, not to mention the river views, plenty of food, and winter 
cleaning service. But of course young folks are trumped by older folks all the 
time even when the adults would be well served to listen to the youth. 

Thanks to Charlie Roberto, Anne Swaim and John Phillips for their efforts in 
establishing a Westchester martin colony. 

L. Trachtenberg 
Ossining


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[nysbirds-l] Kentucky Warbler, Central Park, NYC 6/8

2017-06-08 Thread Thomas Fiore
Thursday, 8 June, 2017 
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

A late-spring surprise after a fairly quiet morning walk in the Ramble was the 
finding of a singing male Kentucky Warbler, near the park’s East Drive, 
directly across from the (west side of) the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 
the rather confined, but densely shrubby cover on the NE, east, & SE sides of 
the very tall monolithic stone 'Cleopatra’s Needle', which is very prominent in 
that area & has a single walkway to its base.  I heard, & very briefly saw, the 
Kentucky work its way in the thickest part on the southeast slope-side, while 
it sang about 15 times from around 6:30 - 6:50 this morning.   Adding to the 
initial confusion from this, a male Mourning Warbler piped up from the nearby 
trees, & seemed to be circling around, though I last saw & heard the Mourning 
go to the east side of the park roadway (closer to the Met. Museum)… the 
Kentucky sang more often than did the Mouring, while I was there.  There seemed 
to be few other migrants in the Ramble section at least in very early morning, 
and one would expect a majority of healthy migrants to have moved on, given the 
excellent conditions for doing so, Wed. night into this a.m.

Perhaps another try later on, but it won’t be too surprising should any 
warblers be fairly quiet as the morning & the day go along. Best chances might 
be in late afternoon or even early evening. And then there might also be a 
skimmer-watch, as that species has fairly regularly turned up in Central 
(oddly) in early summer foraging session, mainly seen in evening hours, 
although on some past occasions also in early mornings, & much more rarely in 
full day-times. Referring to Black Skimmer, of course…

-  -  -  -
"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that 
which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision 
to demand that which is good?”   - Rachel Carson (1907-1964; marine biologist, 
conservationist, author whose books include ‘Silent Spring’.  Sir David 
Attenborough has remarked that that book may have had an effect on science 
second only to Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”.)

good -and ethical- birding,

Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Marshlands Conservancy, Westchester County, Boat-tailed Grackle

2017-06-08 Thread Gail Benson
A singing male  Boat-tailed Grackle, still rare in Westchester County,
continues at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye. The Grackle is with a drake
Long-tailed Duck on an offshore island off Parson's Island.  As this is now
count period, this will constitute a new record for the 54 year old
Greenwich-Stamford summer bird count.
  Tom Burke & Gail Benson

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[nysbirds-l] Nickerson Beach, Nassau - Fee Details

2017-06-08 Thread Deborah Martin
I stopped in at the administrative office at Nickerson to check on the details 
regarding the parking fees.
Nickerson is a Nassau County (not NY state) property.  Fees are collected daily 
- including from seniors. 
Fees are collected from 9 am to 4 pm.  If you arrive before 9, you can enter 
without a fee and your car can remain in the lot once fees start being 
collected - there won't be anyone looking for a receipt/ticket on the 
dashboard.  If you arrive after 4, there won't be toll takers collecting a fee. 
>From 9-4 fees are: 
Fee for Nassau County residents who have a Leisure Pass is $12.
Fee for those who do not have a Leisure Pass is $35.  



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[nysbirds-l] Nelsons sparrow plumb beach YES

2017-06-08 Thread Arie Gilbert

Possibly 2
Best at high tide
Found / heard by Mike snouty
Arie Gilbert 
No. Babylon NY 
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[nysbirds-l] Cupsugue terns

2017-06-08 Thread lstocker
Jim Cullen and I visited the flats at Cupsogue this afternoon and were rewarded 
with, despite the cold, a Roseate and a Black tern.Overall numbers of birds 
were quite low.
thanks 
Lee Stocker
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[nysbirds-l] Purple Martin Croton Point Park

2017-06-08 Thread Larry Trachtenberg
There was a single Purple Martin perched on a bar of the newly installed martin 
complex at Croton Point Park this morning (7:05-7:15 a.m.). One of the houses 
is occupied by tree swallows but when buzzed by a swallow the martin did not 
seem concerned; indeed it took a pass at the swallow occupied house and 
re-perched to continue pruning. To my knowledge there are no breeding martin 
colonies in Westchester County. The bird appears to be juvenile not adult 
female. I am not sure how it can find and alert adults to this new 
construction, not to mention the river views, plenty of food, and winter 
cleaning service. But of course young folks are trumped by older folks all the 
time even when the adults would be well served to listen to the youth. 

Thanks to Charlie Roberto, Anne Swaim and John Phillips for their efforts in 
establishing a Westchester martin colony. 

L. Trachtenberg 
Ossining


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[nysbirds-l] Nelsons sparrow plumb beach YES

2017-06-08 Thread Arie Gilbert

Possibly 2
Best at high tide
Found / heard by Mike snouty
Arie Gilbert 
No. Babylon NY 
www.powerbirder.blogspot 
www.qcbirdclub.org
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[nysbirds-l] Kentucky Warbler, Central Park, NYC 6/8

2017-06-08 Thread Thomas Fiore
Thursday, 8 June, 2017 
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

A late-spring surprise after a fairly quiet morning walk in the Ramble was the 
finding of a singing male Kentucky Warbler, near the park’s East Drive, 
directly across from the (west side of) the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 
the rather confined, but densely shrubby cover on the NE, east, & SE sides of 
the very tall monolithic stone 'Cleopatra’s Needle', which is very prominent in 
that area & has a single walkway to its base.  I heard, & very briefly saw, the 
Kentucky work its way in the thickest part on the southeast slope-side, while 
it sang about 15 times from around 6:30 - 6:50 this morning.   Adding to the 
initial confusion from this, a male Mourning Warbler piped up from the nearby 
trees, & seemed to be circling around, though I last saw & heard the Mourning 
go to the east side of the park roadway (closer to the Met. Museum)… the 
Kentucky sang more often than did the Mouring, while I was there.  There seemed 
to be few other migrants in the Ramble section at least in very early morning, 
and one would expect a majority of healthy migrants to have moved on, given the 
excellent conditions for doing so, Wed. night into this a.m.

Perhaps another try later on, but it won’t be too surprising should any 
warblers be fairly quiet as the morning & the day go along. Best chances might 
be in late afternoon or even early evening. And then there might also be a 
skimmer-watch, as that species has fairly regularly turned up in Central 
(oddly) in early summer foraging session, mainly seen in evening hours, 
although on some past occasions also in early mornings, & much more rarely in 
full day-times. Referring to Black Skimmer, of course…

-  -  -  -
"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that 
which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision 
to demand that which is good?”   - Rachel Carson (1907-1964; marine biologist, 
conservationist, author whose books include ‘Silent Spring’.  Sir David 
Attenborough has remarked that that book may have had an effect on science 
second only to Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”.)

good -and ethical- birding,

Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay - Least Bittern YES

2017-06-08 Thread Michael Zito
The least bittern continues at JBay, heard with Arie Gilbert.

Mike Z.

Sent from my iPhone

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[nysbirds-l] Marshlands Conservancy, Westchester County, Boat-tailed Grackle

2017-06-08 Thread Gail Benson
A singing male  Boat-tailed Grackle, still rare in Westchester County,
continues at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye. The Grackle is with a drake
Long-tailed Duck on an offshore island off Parson's Island.  As this is now
count period, this will constitute a new record for the 54 year old
Greenwich-Stamford summer bird count.
  Tom Burke & Gail Benson

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[nysbirds-l] Nickerson Beach, Nassau - Fee Details

2017-06-08 Thread Deborah Martin
I stopped in at the administrative office at Nickerson to check on the details 
regarding the parking fees.
Nickerson is a Nassau County (not NY state) property.  Fees are collected daily 
- including from seniors. 
Fees are collected from 9 am to 4 pm.  If you arrive before 9, you can enter 
without a fee and your car can remain in the lot once fees start being 
collected - there won't be anyone looking for a receipt/ticket on the 
dashboard.  If you arrive after 4, there won't be toll takers collecting a fee. 
>From 9-4 fees are: 
Fee for Nassau County residents who have a Leisure Pass is $12.
Fee for those who do not have a Leisure Pass is $35.  



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[nysbirds-l] Cupsugue terns

2017-06-08 Thread lstocker
Jim Cullen and I visited the flats at Cupsogue this afternoon and were rewarded 
with, despite the cold, a Roseate and a Black tern.Overall numbers of birds 
were quite low.
thanks 
Lee Stocker
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[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Jun 2017

2017-06-08 Thread David Suggs
- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 06/08/2017
* NYBU1706.08
- Birds mentioned

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  BROWN PELICAN
  WILSON'S PHALAROPE
  American Bittern
  Least Bittern
  Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
  Trumpeter Swan
  Bald Eagle
  Black-bellied Plover
  Semipalmated Plover
  Killdeer
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper
  White-r. Sandpiper
  Baird's Sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Short-b. Dowitcher
  L. Black-b. Gull
  Black Tern
  Black-billed Cuckoo
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Whip-poor-will
  Alder Flycatcher
  Gray-cheeked Thrush
  Swainson's Thrush
  Northern Mockingbird
  Cedar Waxwing
  Yellow-thr. Vireo
  Red-eyed Vireo
  Cerulean Warbler
  Canada Warbler
  Yellow-br. Chat

- Transcript
  Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date: 06/08/2017
  Number: 716-896-1271
  To Report: Same
  Compiler: David F. Suggs
  Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
  Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org

  Thursday, June 8, 2017

  The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided
  by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the
  Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the
  Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound
  key to report sightings before the end of this
  report.

  Highlights of reports received June 1 through
  June 8 from the Niagara Frontier Region.

  The BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara River
  was last reported June 4, off Black Rock Park
  in Buffalo.

  Shorebird migrants are still present. In
  Niagara County, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE from May
  31 to June 2, along Wilson-Youngstown Road,
  west of Fitch Road, in Wilson. In the Town of
  Somerset, at Lower Lake and Burgess Roads - 12
  SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 285 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS,
  1 WHITE-R. SANDPIPER, 5 DUNLIN, 7 SHORT-B.
  DOWITCHERS, numbers of KILLDEER and SPOTTED
  SANDPIPER, and a L. BLACK-B. GULL.

  In Ontario, shorebirds at the Mosaic Ponds,
  north of Rock Point Provincial Park in
  Dunnville, included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER,
  SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 20 SEMIPALM. SANDPIPERS,
  LEAST SANDPIPER and a probable BAIRD'S
  SANDPIPER.

  Also in Ontario, heard at the Wainfleet Bog
  along Wilson Road, at least 6 WHIP-POOR-WILLS,
  YELLOW-BR. CHAT, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and
  BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO.

  Later migrants on June 3 - GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH,
  SWAINSON'S THRUSH and CANADA WARBLER in a Town
  of Wilson yard.

  Summer residents in the Tonawanda Wildlife
  Management Area, along Owens Road, ALDER
  FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO
  and two CERULEAN WARBLERS. At Cayuga Pool in
  the Iroquois Refuge, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, LEAST
  BITTERN, 15 BLACK TERNS, 14 BL.-CR. NIGHT-
  HERONS and 2 TRUMPETER SWANS.

  Also this week - CEDAR WAXWING feeding on
  berries in a Cheektowaga yard. NORTHERN
  MOCKINGBIRD on River Road in North Tonawanda.
  And in the Lake Ontario Plains, a probable sub-
  adult BALD EAGLE taking prey from two adult
  BALD EAGLES.

  The final BOS meeting of the season will be the
  annual picnic at Tifft Nature Preserve in
  Buffalo, at 6 PM on Wednesday, June 14. Bring
  your meal and expect an evening hike through
  the preserve. Visitors are always welcome at
  BOS meetings.

  The Bird Report will be updated Thursday
  evening, June 15. Please call in your sightings
  by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
  after the tone. Thank you for calling and
  reporting.

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