Tuesday, 20 October, 2009 .... some rarities and wanderers in, near, or far from, N.Y.
Rufous Hummingbird continues on in Staten Island, N.Y. City, now tenth day reported: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SINaturaList/message/1347 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SINaturaList/message/1339 - - - SAGE THRASHER : Sandy Hook, northern New Jersey -Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0910&L=JerseyBi&T=0&F=&S=&P=19094 Sandy Hook, New Jersey -10/20 - SAGE Thrasher photographs - from Trina Anderson: https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0910&L=JerseyBi&T=0&F=&S=&P=19281 http://picasaweb.google.com/laporello/SageThrasher# - - - Black-throated Gray Warbler : Big Spring, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania - Oct. 20: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/PENN.html#1256075583 (this location is about 14 miles southwest of Carlisle, Penn. & farther SW of Harrisburg) - - - LeConte's Sparrow : Middleborough, Massachusetts, 10/20: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MASS.html#1256065212 (scroll through for more info on the sighting in these reports) - - - Pink-footed Geese, Maine: at least one brief update, 10/20: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MAIN.html#1256043637 - - - An intriguing report of Fork-tailed Flycatcher from eastern New Brunswick, Canada (in Tracadie-Sheila, N.B.) - http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NTNB.html#1256000247 - - - Far from us but of some interest are N. American breeding species turning up recently on the Azores islands - which are in the Atlantic, almost 1,000 miles east of Portugal... some N.A. passerines & other land birds & also N.A. waders (shorebirds) among them. Olaf JÖNSSON (Norway) blogs on a fine madness: http://www.corvo2009.blogspot.com/ Also intriguing is a report of a possible Violet-Green Swallow on the Connecticut list - the report may appear in the "CT Daily" bird list - for 10/20 (comprising mainly rarity reports): http://lists.ctbirding.org/pipermail/ctdailyreport_lists.ctbirding.org/2009-October/date.html Good birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan _________ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
