Re: [nysbirds-l] Feura Bush Sandhill Crane

Hey Peter, I was so very disappointed to read Dave La Grange’s message and watch Dave his video of him pursuing the Sandhill Crane. It was so obvious that as he approached the crane, that the crane was walking away from him and even sounded just before it took off. He writes: “...trying to

[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 18 Aug 2016

- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/18/2016 * NYBU1608.18 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- PIPING PLOVER MARBLED GODWIT COMMON EIDER Amer. White

[nysbirds-l] Bronx Broadwing

At 12:42PM, a BROAD-WINGED HAWK with a full crop flew out of Van Cortlandt Park and headed east across I-87. A stopover I suspect. Locals would know better... Mike Britt Bayonne, NJ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME

[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach rails (Nassau)

Hi everyone, Dave Klauber and I failed to spot or hear the Sora at the ponds his evening, but we had a brief but definitive look at a sprinting juvenile Virginia Rail, all the way in the southeast corner of the little easternmost pond there. Shorebird diversity was nice, half a dozen

[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 8/18

Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Thursday, 18 August, 2016 After 6+ weeks of modestly-good to mediocre (or near-nonexistent) general land-bird migrations, according to varying weather & other factors, the night of August 17th into Thursday, 8/18 was by far the strongest (land-bird)

[nysbirds-l] East Pond Report 8-17

A belated report from the East Pond. Yesterday, I did a schlep from the south to the north end of the east pond. My hike began on a pleasant note, running into the legendary Arthur Morris who was doing his photography thing. There were a good number of peeps scattered all along the shores of

[nysbirds-l] West End, Jones Beach State Park Birds (Nassau Co.)

Sue and I spent a few hours this morning birding West End, concentrating on shorebirds. Between the sandbar in the boat basin and the ponds between the Nature Center and WE2 we recorded seventeen species of shorebirds with nothing special to report. We did observe our first juvenile Stilt

Re: [nysbirds-l] Feura Bush Sandhill Crane

Hey Peter, I was so very disappointed to read Dave La Grange’s message and watch Dave his video of him pursuing the Sandhill Crane. It was so obvious that as he approached the crane, that the crane was walking away from him and even sounded just before it took off. He writes: “...trying to

[nysbirds-l] East Pond Report 8-17

A belated report from the East Pond. Yesterday, I did a schlep from the south to the north end of the east pond. My hike began on a pleasant note, running into the legendary Arthur Morris who was doing his photography thing. There were a good number of peeps scattered all along the shores of

[nysbirds-l] West End, Jones Beach State Park Birds (Nassau Co.)

Sue and I spent a few hours this morning birding West End, concentrating on shorebirds. Between the sandbar in the boat basin and the ponds between the Nature Center and WE2 we recorded seventeen species of shorebirds with nothing special to report. We did observe our first juvenile Stilt

[nysbirds-l] Bronx Broadwing

At 12:42PM, a BROAD-WINGED HAWK with a full crop flew out of Van Cortlandt Park and headed east across I-87. A stopover I suspect. Locals would know better... Mike Britt Bayonne, NJ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME

[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 18 Aug 2016

- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/18/2016 * NYBU1608.18 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- PIPING PLOVER MARBLED GODWIT COMMON EIDER Amer. White

[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach rails (Nassau)

Hi everyone, Dave Klauber and I failed to spot or hear the Sora at the ponds his evening, but we had a brief but definitive look at a sprinting juvenile Virginia Rail, all the way in the southeast corner of the little easternmost pond there. Shorebird diversity was nice, half a dozen

[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 8/18

Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City Thursday, 18 August, 2016 After 6+ weeks of modestly-good to mediocre (or near-nonexistent) general land-bird migrations, according to varying weather & other factors, the night of August 17th into Thursday, 8/18 was by far the strongest (land-bird)