RE: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-14 Thread Shaibal Mitra
For the past several years I've focused my spring season reports in North American Birds on the curious spike in our Region of records of vagrants and half-hardies during March. This generally under-appreciated pattern is not only very well-documented but also, I argue, potentially a very

Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-14 Thread editcon...@aol.com
Sorry - meant to add this to the thread. NYBG has been frozen, as much of the NYC area. Our crabapples and any other fruit/seed producing trees have been stripped bare with some strands left. If the grosbeak over wintered at the zoo there would have been more available food. In the last two

Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-14 Thread Hugh McGuinness
To further support the over-wintering hypothesis, we would predict that if this were a migrant, there would currently be a spate of records along the Gulf Coast. Checking e-bird, there are exactly two March 2015 records for the species, with none in the Caribbean. Hugh On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at

Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-14 Thread Hugh McGuinness
To further support the over-wintering hypothesis, we would predict that if this were a migrant, there would currently be a spate of records along the Gulf Coast. Checking e-bird, there are exactly two March 2015 records for the species, with none in the Caribbean. Hugh On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at

RE: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-14 Thread Shaibal Mitra
For the past several years I've focused my spring season reports in North American Birds on the curious spike in our Region of records of vagrants and half-hardies during March. This generally under-appreciated pattern is not only very well-documented but also, I argue, potentially a very

RE: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread Joe DiCostanzo
As Gabriel Willow and Tom Fiore have already pointed out, given the proximity of the New York Botanical Garden to the Bronx Zoo where a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak was reported on December 28 and February 17, this is far more likely to be that same individual than an early arrival from the

Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread gabriel willow
There was a female-type Rose-breasted Grosbeak reported from the Bronx Zoo on Feb. 17.  That's quite close to NYBG, I wonder if she is the same bird who survived the past three weeks or so?  Seems likely.  And if so, I'd guess she overwintered, rather than being an early arrival.  There's a

Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
There's a photo on Facebook and it's definitely a Grosbeak. > On Mar 13, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Will Raup wrote: > > > It's an almost an extraordinary sighting. > > Typical arrival times is late April downstate, and around May 1st for areas > south of the Adirondacks. > > Was female Purple

RE: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread Will Raup
It's an almost an extraordinary sighting. Typical arrival times is late April downstate, and around May 1st for areas south of the Adirondacks. Was female Purple Finch ruled out? They seem to be moving right now. Any photos? Will RaupGlenmont, NYDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:36:54 -0400 Subject:

Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
There's a photo on Facebook and it's definitely a Grosbeak. On Mar 13, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Will Raup hoaryredp...@hotmail.com wrote: It's an almost an extraordinary sighting. Typical arrival times is late April downstate, and around May 1st for areas south of the Adirondacks. Was

RE: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread Joe DiCostanzo
As Gabriel Willow and Tom Fiore have already pointed out, given the proximity of the New York Botanical Garden to the Bronx Zoo where a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak was reported on December 28 and February 17, this is far more likely to be that same individual than an early arrival from the

Re: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread gabriel willow
There was a female-type Rose-breasted Grosbeak reported from the Bronx Zoo on Feb. 17.  That's quite close to NYBG, I wonder if she is the same bird who survived the past three weeks or so?  Seems likely.  And if so, I'd guess she overwintered, rather than being an early arrival.  There's a

RE: [nysbirds-l] Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

2015-03-13 Thread Will Raup
It's an almost an extraordinary sighting. Typical arrival times is late April downstate, and around May 1st for areas south of the Adirondacks. Was female Purple Finch ruled out? They seem to be moving right now. Any photos? Will RaupGlenmont, NYDate: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:36:54 -0400 Subject: