[nysbirds-l] Sparrows at Jones Beach 10/15
I birded Jones Beach this morning with Bob Veltri and Jeff Ritter, hoping to see some migrating sparrows. Bob’s intuition to pick Jones was a good one, and was confirmed by the moderate levels of reflectivity on radar dispersing over mid long island this morning. While initially things were slow, presumably due to a combination of cold and numerous raptors (including merlins, sharp-shinned and Coopers hawks, peregrine falcon, and northern harrier), the activity picked up later in the morning. Amongst all the yellow rumps and golden-crowned kinglets, we were able to find 11 species of sparrow including lark, clay-colored, white-crowned, field, savannah, chipping, swamp, song, white-throated, junco and towee. I had to leave early and missed the lark (originally found by Ken Feustel). Jeff had located the clay-colored for our group at the far west turnaround, and I returned in the late afternoon, to see if I could absorb this subtly beautiful bird. It was still there at sunset, if you’d like to try tomorrow. Here is a link to a video: https://vimeo.com/187499936 Happy fall birding, Peter -- 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] Sparrows at Jones Beach 10/15
I birded Jones Beach this morning with Bob Veltri and Jeff Ritter, hoping to see some migrating sparrows. Bob’s intuition to pick Jones was a good one, and was confirmed by the moderate levels of reflectivity on radar dispersing over mid long island this morning. While initially things were slow, presumably due to a combination of cold and numerous raptors (including merlins, sharp-shinned and Coopers hawks, peregrine falcon, and northern harrier), the activity picked up later in the morning. Amongst all the yellow rumps and golden-crowned kinglets, we were able to find 11 species of sparrow including lark, clay-colored, white-crowned, field, savannah, chipping, swamp, song, white-throated, junco and towee. I had to leave early and missed the lark (originally found by Ken Feustel). Jeff had located the clay-colored for our group at the far west turnaround, and I returned in the late afternoon, to see if I could absorb this subtly beautiful bird. It was still there at sunset, if you’d like to try tomorrow. Here is a link to a video: https://vimeo.com/187499936 Happy fall birding, Peter -- 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/ --
