Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: June 09, 2017

[Jay D]

Thanks Deborah Martin for the Nickerson parking info!


On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:15 AM, & [NYSBIRDS] digest <
nysbird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote:

> NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Friday, June 09, 2017.
>
> 1. Purple Martin Croton Point Park
> 2. =?UTF-8?B?TmVsc29ucyBzcGFycm93IHBsdW1iIGJlYWNoIFlFUw==?=
> 3. Kentucky Warbler, Central Park, NYC 6/8
> 4. Jamaica Bay - Least Bittern YES
> 5. Marshlands Conservancy, Westchester County, Boat-tailed Grackle
> 6. Nickerson Beach, Nassau - Fee Details
> 7. Cupsugue terns
> 8. RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Jun 2017
>
> --
>
> Subject: Purple Martin Croton Point Park
> From: Larry Trachtenberg 
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:50:05 +
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
> There was a single Purple Martin perched on a bar of the newly installed
> martin complex at Croton Point Park this morning (7:05-7:15 a.m.). One of
> the houses is occupied by tree swallows but when buzzed by a swallow the
> martin did not seem concerned; indeed it took a pass at the swallow
> occupied house and re-perched to continue pruning. To my knowledge there
> are no breeding martin colonies in Westchester County. The bird appears to
> be juvenile not adult female. I am not sure how it can find and alert
> adults to this new construction, not to mention the river views, plenty of
> food, and winter cleaning service. But of course young folks are trumped by
> older folks all the time even when the adults would be well served to
> listen to the youth.
>
> Thanks to Charlie Roberto, Anne Swaim and John Phillips for their efforts
> in establishing a Westchester martin colony.
>
> L. Trachtenberg
> Ossining
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> --
>
> Subject: =?UTF-8?B?TmVsc29ucyBzcGFycm93IHBsdW1iIGJlYWNoIFlFUw==?=
> From: =?UTF-8?B?QXJpZSBHaWxiZXJ0?= 
> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:10:28 +0300
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
>
> Possibly 2
> Best at high tide
> Found / heard by Mike snouty
> Arie Gilbert
> No. Babylon NY
> www.powerbirder.blogspot
> www.qcbirdclub.org
> --
> Sent from Loretta in the field
> --
>
> Subject: Kentucky Warbler, Central Park, NYC 6/8
> From: Thomas Fiore 
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:20:01 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> Thursday, 8 June, 2017
> Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
>
> A late-spring surprise after a fairly quiet morning walk in the Ramble was
> the finding of a singing male Kentucky Warbler, near the park’s East Drive,
> directly across from the (west side of) the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
> in the rather confined, but densely shrubby cover on the NE, east, & SE
> sides of the very tall monolithic stone 'Cleopatra’s Needle', which is very
> prominent in that area & has a single walkway to its base.  I heard, & very
> briefly saw, the Kentucky work its way in the thickest part on the
> southeast slope-side, while it sang about 15 times from around 6:30 - 6:50
> this morning.   Adding to the initial confusion from this, a male Mourning
> Warbler piped up from the nearby trees, & seemed to be circling around,
> though I last saw & heard the Mourning go to the east side of the park
> roadway (closer to the Met. Museum)… the Kentucky sang more often than did
> the Mouring, while I was there.  There seemed to be few other migrants in
> the Ramble section at least in very early morning, and one would expect a
> majority of healthy migrants to have moved on, given the excellent
> conditions for doing so, Wed. night into this a.m.
>
> Perhaps another try later on, but it won’t be too surprising should any
> warblers be fairly quiet as the morning & the day go along. Best chances
> might be in late afternoon or even early evening. And then there might also
> be a skimmer-watch, as that species has fairly regularly turned up in
> Central (oddly) in early summer foraging session, mainly seen in evening
> hours, although on some past occasions also in early mornings, & much more
> rarely in full day-times. Referring to Black Skimmer, of course…
>
> -  -  -  -
> "Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable
> that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or
> the vision to demand that which is good?”   - Rachel Carson (1907-1964;
> marine biologist, conservationist, author whose books include ‘Silent
> Spring’.  Sir David Attenborough has remarked that that book may have had
> an effect on science second only to Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of
> Species”.)
>
> good -and ethical- birding,
>
> Tom Fiore
> manhattan
> --
>
> Subject: Jamaica Bay - Least Bittern YES
> From: Michael Zito 
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:11:07 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 4
>
> The least bittern continues at JBay, 

Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: June 09, 2017

[Jay D]

Thanks Deborah Martin for the Nickerson parking info!


On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:15 AM, & [NYSBIRDS] digest <
nysbird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote:

> NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Friday, June 09, 2017.
>
> 1. Purple Martin Croton Point Park
> 2. =?UTF-8?B?TmVsc29ucyBzcGFycm93IHBsdW1iIGJlYWNoIFlFUw==?=
> 3. Kentucky Warbler, Central Park, NYC 6/8
> 4. Jamaica Bay - Least Bittern YES
> 5. Marshlands Conservancy, Westchester County, Boat-tailed Grackle
> 6. Nickerson Beach, Nassau - Fee Details
> 7. Cupsugue terns
> 8. RBA Buffalo Bird Report 08 Jun 2017
>
> --
>
> Subject: Purple Martin Croton Point Park
> From: Larry Trachtenberg 
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:50:05 +
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
> There was a single Purple Martin perched on a bar of the newly installed
> martin complex at Croton Point Park this morning (7:05-7:15 a.m.). One of
> the houses is occupied by tree swallows but when buzzed by a swallow the
> martin did not seem concerned; indeed it took a pass at the swallow
> occupied house and re-perched to continue pruning. To my knowledge there
> are no breeding martin colonies in Westchester County. The bird appears to
> be juvenile not adult female. I am not sure how it can find and alert
> adults to this new construction, not to mention the river views, plenty of
> food, and winter cleaning service. But of course young folks are trumped by
> older folks all the time even when the adults would be well served to
> listen to the youth.
>
> Thanks to Charlie Roberto, Anne Swaim and John Phillips for their efforts
> in establishing a Westchester martin colony.
>
> L. Trachtenberg
> Ossining
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> --
>
> Subject: =?UTF-8?B?TmVsc29ucyBzcGFycm93IHBsdW1iIGJlYWNoIFlFUw==?=
> From: =?UTF-8?B?QXJpZSBHaWxiZXJ0?= 
> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:10:28 +0300
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
>
> Possibly 2
> Best at high tide
> Found / heard by Mike snouty
> Arie Gilbert
> No. Babylon NY
> www.powerbirder.blogspot
> www.qcbirdclub.org
> --
> Sent from Loretta in the field
> --
>
> Subject: Kentucky Warbler, Central Park, NYC 6/8
> From: Thomas Fiore 
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:20:01 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> Thursday, 8 June, 2017
> Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
>
> A late-spring surprise after a fairly quiet morning walk in the Ramble was
> the finding of a singing male Kentucky Warbler, near the park’s East Drive,
> directly across from the (west side of) the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
> in the rather confined, but densely shrubby cover on the NE, east, & SE
> sides of the very tall monolithic stone 'Cleopatra’s Needle', which is very
> prominent in that area & has a single walkway to its base.  I heard, & very
> briefly saw, the Kentucky work its way in the thickest part on the
> southeast slope-side, while it sang about 15 times from around 6:30 - 6:50
> this morning.   Adding to the initial confusion from this, a male Mourning
> Warbler piped up from the nearby trees, & seemed to be circling around,
> though I last saw & heard the Mourning go to the east side of the park
> roadway (closer to the Met. Museum)… the Kentucky sang more often than did
> the Mouring, while I was there.  There seemed to be few other migrants in
> the Ramble section at least in very early morning, and one would expect a
> majority of healthy migrants to have moved on, given the excellent
> conditions for doing so, Wed. night into this a.m.
>
> Perhaps another try later on, but it won’t be too surprising should any
> warblers be fairly quiet as the morning & the day go along. Best chances
> might be in late afternoon or even early evening. And then there might also
> be a skimmer-watch, as that species has fairly regularly turned up in
> Central (oddly) in early summer foraging session, mainly seen in evening
> hours, although on some past occasions also in early mornings, & much more
> rarely in full day-times. Referring to Black Skimmer, of course…
>
> -  -  -  -
> "Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable
> that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or
> the vision to demand that which is good?”   - Rachel Carson (1907-1964;
> marine biologist, conservationist, author whose books include ‘Silent
> Spring’.  Sir David Attenborough has remarked that that book may have had
> an effect on science second only to Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of
> Species”.)
>
> good -and ethical- birding,
>
> Tom Fiore
> manhattan
> --
>
> Subject: Jamaica Bay - Least Bittern YES
> From: Michael Zito 
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:11:07 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 4
>
> The least bittern continues at JBay, heard with Arie Gilbert.
>
> Mike Z.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>