[nysbirds-l] Fwd: Bryant Park - YB Chat 12/17/11
Ellen sent this email to me, but subsequently asked me to post it to the list. I still wonder if there remain two Chats and two Ovenbirds. A challenge to anyone who wants to try to figure that out:) Ardith Bondi Original Message Subject:Bryant Park - YB Chat 12/17/11 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:07:25 -0500 From: lnmp To: Hi, I also saw the Yellow-Breasted Chat in Bryant Park on Saturday. I would love to see your photos if you can provide a link. I live in the Albany area, where I'm on the Board of the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club. I was planning to be in NYC on Saturday, so I checked Birding on the Net to see if there had been any interesting bird sightings recently. When I saw the posts on the NY Birding List about the chat, I knew I HAD to look for it, as it would be a lifebird for me. By the time my husband and I reached Bryant Park Saturday afternoon, the place was mobbed with people, especially around the ice skating rink and vendor booths. We knew we had only an hour or so before it would start getting dark, so we had to be quick. The posts from the last several weeks (not including yours, which I didn't see until that night) gave us clues about where to look. In the southeast side of Bryant Park, next to an employee-only storage area, we found an Ovenbird right on the ground, in plain sight. That's the first time I've seen in Ovenbird in NYC - wow! We also saw quite a few White-Throated Sparrows. Discouraged by the number of people on the north side of the park, the chat's "preferred location" according to one post, we raced over to the Fifth Avenue side in front of the library, splitting up and checking just about every shrub. My husband the non-birder (!) finally spotted the chat... and after he found ME, I was able to get a good look at it. It was perched in a shrub below the library terrace (i.e., facing Fifth Avenue), towards the northern end... Very cool to see. I think someone may have taken photos of us, but otherwise, probably noticed this crazed birder in front of the library - we didn't see anyone else with binoculars around there! -Ellen Pemrick -- 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] Fwd: Bryant Park - YB Chat 12/17/11
Ellen sent this email to me, but subsequently asked me to post it to the list. I still wonder if there remain two Chats and two Ovenbirds. A challenge to anyone who wants to try to figure that out:) Ardith Bondi Original Message Subject:Bryant Park - YB Chat 12/17/11 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:07:25 -0500 From: lnmp l...@nycap.rr.com To: ard...@earthlink.net Hi, I also saw the Yellow-Breasted Chat in Bryant Park on Saturday. I would love to see your photos if you can provide a link. I live in the Albany area, where I'm on the Board of the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club. I was planning to be in NYC on Saturday, so I checked Birding on the Net to see if there had been any interesting bird sightings recently. When I saw the posts on the NY Birding List about the chat, I knew I HAD to look for it, as it would be a lifebird for me. By the time my husband and I reached Bryant Park Saturday afternoon, the place was mobbed with people, especially around the ice skating rink and vendor booths. We knew we had only an hour or so before it would start getting dark, so we had to be quick. The posts from the last several weeks (not including yours, which I didn't see until that night) gave us clues about where to look. In the southeast side of Bryant Park, next to an employee-only storage area, we found an Ovenbird right on the ground, in plain sight. That's the first time I've seen in Ovenbird in NYC - wow! We also saw quite a few White-Throated Sparrows. Discouraged by the number of people on the north side of the park, the chat's preferred location according to one post, we raced over to the Fifth Avenue side in front of the library, splitting up and checking just about every shrub. My husband the non-birder (!) finally spotted the chat... and after he found ME, I was able to get a good look at it. It was perched in a shrub below the library terrace (i.e., facing Fifth Avenue), towards the northern end... Very cool to see. I think someone may have taken photos of us, but otherwise, probably noticed this crazed birder in front of the library - we didn't see anyone else with binoculars around there! -Ellen Pemrick -- 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/ --