[nysbirds-l] "Cheaper by the dozen" !
Thursday afternoon, armed with my new camera, I headed east toward Orient, in the hope of "zooming in" on a Snowy Owl ! Although I couldn't find either of the 2 birds that have been seen there fairly regularly since the beginning of the season, I did get some nice "close-ups" of a very cooperative Red-tailed Hawk. I first saw it resting atop a utility pole on the n/s/o Main Rd., Orient. After parking on the s/s (about a pole away) and taking a few shots from the car, I then got out and started taking photos as I walked closer to the hawk, stopping every 10', or so. This kept up until I found myself directly opposite the pole/bird, and completely surprised that the usually wary hawk hadn't flown off ! The rest of the trip was mostly a testimonial to how well the Red-tail Hawk is doing (12, in total). There were 4 each in Riverhead & Orient, plus 4 more in-between. Also, in both towns, there was a pair perched on the same branch, right next to each other...must be that time of year ! Cheers, Bob -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon - Maybe not so
After some further review of the reported "Gyrfalcon" at the Shawangunk Grasslands from Feb. 16th, maybe the bird is not a Gyrfalcon after all. The photos were not all that clear and suggest immature Red-shouldered Hawk as well. Without further sightings or better evidence, prospective "chasers" might stand down for now. Sorry, -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon at Shawangunk Grasslands
An adult dark-phase Gyrfalcon was photographed on Feb. 16th at the Shawangunk Grasslands in Ulster County and reported to eBird. -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 20 Feb 2014
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/20/2014 * NYBU1402.20 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- FISH CROW HARLEQUIN DUCK BARROW'S GOLDENEYE BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON EASTERN TOWHEE SNOWY OWL Red-necked Grebe Northern Pintail Bald Eagle Northern Harrier American Kestrel Merlin Wild Turkey L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/20/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 20, 2014 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 February 13 through February 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, EASTERN TOWHEE and SNOWY OWL. In Buffalo, February 16, a FISH CROW at the north end of Squaw Island in Black Rock; also seen nearby at the foot of Hertel Avenue. And a female HARLEQUIN DUCK, the same date, on the Niagara River near the Peace Bridge, off the West Side Rowing Club. At Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario at Oak Orchard Creek, the wintering BARROW'S GOLDENEYE continues. Outside the region, just east Point Breeze, a first winter male KING EIDER. A late report from February 9 - an unexpected, immature BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on the feeder stream near Ditch Road. Also 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Ditch Road. A fourth EASTERN TOWHEE report for the month - at a feeder on Galen Hill Road in the Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom. The reported ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK continues at Sunset Beach, on Lake Ontario in Orleans County, and was reported to be a male. SNOWY OWL week in review - one with SHORT-EARED OWLS on Meahl Road south of Route 31 in the Niagara County Town of Cambria; on Route 98 north of the Village of Alexander in Genesee County; in Orleans County at Sawyer Cemetery on Route 18 in Somerset; and two SNOWY OWLS on Route 249 near Jennings Road in the Erie County Town of North Collins. In the Lake Ontario Plains, the record flock of 5000 SNOW BUNTINGS still on Hulbert Road as of February 19. LAPLAND LONGSPURS and HORNED LARK mixed in the the buntings. Also on Hulbert Road this week - L. BLACK-B. GULL, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS, 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS, two each of MERLIN and AMERICAN KESTREL, NORTHERN HARRIER and 25 WILD TURKEYS. NORTHERN SHRIKE and NORTHERN HARRIER still in the Iroquois Refuge at the Forestall Flats at Route 63 and Oak Orchard Ridge Road. Two NORTHERN SHRIKES and a MERLIN at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. On the upper Niagara River, a pair of BALD EAGLES at the Strawberry Island nest and a pair of COMMON RAVENS at the River Road power plant. Another COMMON RAVEN on Francis Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. Other reports this week - at Dunkirk Harbor, two RED-NECKED GREBES joined the abundant waterfowl. NORTHERN PINTAIL at Bennett Beach in Evans. CEDAR WAXWING in the Village of Springville. And, an EASTERN BLUEBIRD on Rapids Road in Newstead. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Buffalo-male Harlequin, King Eider, ScaupXRing-neck Hybrid Duck etc.
February 20 - Buffalo, Niagara River -Today there was a beautiful breeding plumage male HARLEQUIN DUCK seen from the West Side Rowing Club (about 300 yards south of Peace Bridge). The immature male KING EIDER was about 600 yards north of Nickels Marine in Fort Erie or about 600 yards north of the Peace Bridge. A Ring-necked Duck X Scaup HYBRID DUCK was found about 400 yards south of the International Rail Road Bridge and see from Squaw Island. Totals for Buffalo at Erie Basin Marina, West Side Rowing Club, Squaw Island south and north were: 7,500 Greater Scaups 2,950 Common Goldeneyes 1,000 Common Mergansers 570Red-breasted Mergansers 118White-winged Scoters 1 Surf Scoter 143Long-tailed Ducks 1 Ring-necked Duck - adult male from Erie Basin Marine 230 Canvasbacks 226 Redheads 880 Buffleheads 2 Ruddy Ducks 7 Glaucous Gulls 1 Bald Eagle Bill Watson -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] East End sightings
A common raven was seen at 4:30 this afternoon atop a transmission tower west of the Hampton Bays railroad station. Earlier a snowy owl was seen far out on the marsh between Tiana and Dockers. Mike Higgiston -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park Bird Report
2/20/14, Thursday Pat Pollock Reservoir - lots of gulls, a few American Coots, Canada Geese, Mallards Very clear, bright day for searching for the Iceland Gull but w/o a scope or snowshoes, cdn't do it Feeders- (m) & (f) Baltimore Orioles, Anabella saw an American Tree Sparrow, Cooper's Hawk flew overhead, House Finches, Goldfinches, Carolina Wren, Dark-eyed Juncos, Brown Creepers, Downy W.P.s, West side of Lake south of Hernshead, open water 3 Wood Ducks (2M's), 1 American Black Duck, 50? Northern Shovelers, Canada Geese, Mallards, some hybrid Mallards -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Red-headed woodpecker @ kissena yes
Same location as previously reports about Terri weeks ago. Just west of the bathrooms by the lake. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Turkey vulture @ Kissena park queens ny
Just saw a turkey vulture fly over the park heading east. Also, brown thrasher, rusty bbs, fish crows earlier over the corridor and many singing birds such as junco, song sparrow, morning dove, redwing bb, cardinals, white throats. I guess they feel the warmth of the day. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Rough-legged Hawk @ Jones Beach
Harry Taylor, just called to report a Rough-legged Hawk sitting in a tree
near the turn around at Jones Beach West End II. Very likely, the same
bird found and reported by Bobby Berlingeri.
Please refer to previous reports for further details on the bird. Good
luck if you try for it.
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[nysbirds-l] Essex - Charlotte Ferry across Lake Champlain
Just in case anyone is headed toward the Essex - Charlotte Ferry across Lake Champlain, I must have had a dyslexic moment and reversed the schedule in my post yesterday! The ferry runs back and forth - on the half hour beginning at 7:30 a.m. on the NY side and at the top of the hour on the VT side beginning at 7 a.m. The last ferry leaves VT at 5 p.m. and NY at 5:30 p.m. If you miss the ferry, you can simply head south and drive across the lake on the Champlain Bridge at Crown Point. Joan Collins Long Lake, NY (315) 244-7127 cell (518) 624-5528 home http://www.adirondackavianexpeditions.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AdirondackAvian -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Rough-legged Hawk @ Jones Beach
Harry Taylor, just called to report a Rough-legged Hawk sitting in a tree near the turn around at Jones Beach West End II. Very likely, the same bird found and reported by Bobby Berlingeri. Please refer to previous reports for further details on the bird. Good luck if you try for it. Don't start none, won't be none ~ Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (\__/) (= '.'=) () _ () Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Turkey vulture @ Kissena park queens ny
Just saw a turkey vulture fly over the park heading east. Also, brown thrasher, rusty bbs, fish crows earlier over the corridor and many singing birds such as junco, song sparrow, morning dove, redwing bb, cardinals, white throats. I guess they feel the warmth of the day. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Red-headed woodpecker @ kissena yes
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[nysbirds-l] East End sightings
A common raven was seen at 4:30 this afternoon atop a transmission tower west of the Hampton Bays railroad station. Earlier a snowy owl was seen far out on the marsh between Tiana and Dockers. Mike Higgiston -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Buffalo-male Harlequin, King Eider, ScaupXRing-neck Hybrid Duck etc.
February 20 - Buffalo, Niagara River -Today there was a beautiful breeding plumage male HARLEQUIN DUCK seen from the West Side Rowing Club (about 300 yards south of Peace Bridge). The immature male KING EIDER was about 600 yards north of Nickels Marine in Fort Erie or about 600 yards north of the Peace Bridge. A Ring-necked Duck X Scaup HYBRID DUCK was found about 400 yards south of the International Rail Road Bridge and see from Squaw Island. Totals for Buffalo at Erie Basin Marina, West Side Rowing Club, Squaw Island south and north were: 7,500 Greater Scaups 2,950 Common Goldeneyes 1,000 Common Mergansers 570Red-breasted Mergansers 118White-winged Scoters 1 Surf Scoter 143Long-tailed Ducks 1 Ring-necked Duck - adult male from Erie Basin Marine 230 Canvasbacks 226 Redheads 880 Buffleheads 2 Ruddy Ducks 7 Glaucous Gulls 1 Bald Eagle Bill Watson -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 20 Feb 2014
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/20/2014 * NYBU1402.20 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- FISH CROW HARLEQUIN DUCK BARROW'S GOLDENEYE BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON EASTERN TOWHEE SNOWY OWL Red-necked Grebe Northern Pintail Bald Eagle Northern Harrier American Kestrel Merlin Wild Turkey L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Horned Lark Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/20/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 20, 2014 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 February 13 through February 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region include FISH CROW, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, EASTERN TOWHEE and SNOWY OWL. In Buffalo, February 16, a FISH CROW at the north end of Squaw Island in Black Rock; also seen nearby at the foot of Hertel Avenue. And a female HARLEQUIN DUCK, the same date, on the Niagara River near the Peace Bridge, off the West Side Rowing Club. At Point Breeze, on Lake Ontario at Oak Orchard Creek, the wintering BARROW'S GOLDENEYE continues. Outside the region, just east Point Breeze, a first winter male KING EIDER. A late report from February 9 - an unexpected, immature BL.- CR. NIGHT-HERON in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, on the feeder stream near Ditch Road. Also 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS on Ditch Road. A fourth EASTERN TOWHEE report for the month - at a feeder on Galen Hill Road in the Cattaraugus County Town of Freedom. The reported ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK continues at Sunset Beach, on Lake Ontario in Orleans County, and was reported to be a male. SNOWY OWL week in review - one with SHORT-EARED OWLS on Meahl Road south of Route 31 in the Niagara County Town of Cambria; on Route 98 north of the Village of Alexander in Genesee County; in Orleans County at Sawyer Cemetery on Route 18 in Somerset; and two SNOWY OWLS on Route 249 near Jennings Road in the Erie County Town of North Collins. In the Lake Ontario Plains, the record flock of 5000 SNOW BUNTINGS still on Hulbert Road as of February 19. LAPLAND LONGSPURS and HORNED LARK mixed in the the buntings. Also on Hulbert Road this week - L. BLACK-B. GULL, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS, 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS, two each of MERLIN and AMERICAN KESTREL, NORTHERN HARRIER and 25 WILD TURKEYS. NORTHERN SHRIKE and NORTHERN HARRIER still in the Iroquois Refuge at the Forestall Flats at Route 63 and Oak Orchard Ridge Road. Two NORTHERN SHRIKES and a MERLIN at Fort Niagara State Park in Porter. On the upper Niagara River, a pair of BALD EAGLES at the Strawberry Island nest and a pair of COMMON RAVENS at the River Road power plant. Another COMMON RAVEN on Francis Road in the Genesee County Town of Bethany. Other reports this week - at Dunkirk Harbor, two RED-NECKED GREBES joined the abundant waterfowl. NORTHERN PINTAIL at Bennett Beach in Evans. CEDAR WAXWING in the Village of Springville. And, an EASTERN BLUEBIRD on Rapids Road in Newstead. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon at Shawangunk Grasslands
An adult dark-phase Gyrfalcon was photographed on Feb. 16th at the Shawangunk Grasslands in Ulster County and reported to eBird. -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon - Maybe not so
After some further review of the reported Gyrfalcon at the Shawangunk Grasslands from Feb. 16th, maybe the bird is not a Gyrfalcon after all. The photos were not all that clear and suggest immature Red-shouldered Hawk as well. Without further sightings or better evidence, prospective chasers might stand down for now. Sorry, -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Cheaper by the dozen !
Thursday afternoon, armed with my new camera, I headed east toward Orient, in the hope of zooming in on a Snowy Owl ! Although I couldn't find either of the 2 birds that have been seen there fairly regularly since the beginning of the season, I did get some nice close-ups of a very cooperative Red-tailed Hawk. I first saw it resting atop a utility pole on the n/s/o Main Rd., Orient. After parking on the s/s (about a pole away) and taking a few shots from the car, I then got out and started taking photos as I walked closer to the hawk, stopping every 10', or so. This kept up until I found myself directly opposite the pole/bird, and completely surprised that the usually wary hawk hadn't flown off ! The rest of the trip was mostly a testimonial to how well the Red-tail Hawk is doing (12, in total). There were 4 each in Riverhead Orient, plus 4 more in-between. Also, in both towns, there was a pair perched on the same branch, right next to each other...must be that time of year ! Cheers, Bob -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
