Thanks Steve for posting an updated map. The bird was seen on and off as late as 4:20 p.m.
Reminder: Please remember to follow the ABA code of ethics when birding. Excessive tape playing is not the way to go about trying to see this rarity and may actually push the bird away instead of enticing it. Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Steve Walter <swalte...@verizon.net> wrote: I updated the map http://www.stevewalternature.com/downloads/Alley_Map.jpg to show the approximate locations of the Virginia’s Warbler sightings so far. I also gathered up the previous site info below. On the map, X marks the spot of its discovery Oct 31. The other spots are noted by the November dates of the sightings. To access today’s location, there is an entrance to the park from the street at 73rd Avenue and Cloverdale Blvd. (which would be 227th St., but doesn’t say either on this map). The bird ranged a bit with sightings about even with 228 to 229 Streets, both from the trail on the north side and the trail on the south side (noted on the map as Brooklyn-Queens Greenway). As I’ve said before, this is a tough bird to find. People had been searching for about six hours today before it was found. The sightings then tend to be brief, with the bird typically descending into brush. So if that’s not bad enough, its expanding range makes it an even greater challenge. November 9 This is an area not far from the challenge course. I first heard a soft chip note on the trail heading north towards the shipping containers and then found the bird. Note, the trail I am referring to has a weather station apparatus attached to a tree. November 5 Enter the park at 76th Avenue and Cloverdale Blvd., this time going left. Wind around the stone wall on the left to a spot just past a stack of smaller tree limbs. Of course, by tomorrow it could be somewhere else. It’s worth a look in the plantings along Cloverdale Blvd. (where you enter the park), as they did attract a Parula later on. October 31 Alley (Pond) Park is in northeastern Queens (NYC). It lies between the Cross Island Parkway, Grand Central Parkway, Clearview Expressway, and Long Island Expressway, if you plan a route here. Whichever highway you take, you’ll want to get to Springfield Blvd. The specific location is in the southwestern part of the park. The closest street access is off Cloverdale Blvd., near 77th Avenue. Some might recall the Yellow-throated Warbler this spring at Cloverdale and 76th Avenue (which could be seen from the street). For this bird, you’ll have to enter the park. There is an unofficial dirt trail near 77th. There is another unofficial dirt trail on the far side of a paved trail that roughly parallels Cloverdale. It is from various points on the interior dirt trail that Eric saw the bird. There is a deep gully here. Acadian Flycatchers nested at the south end of this gully in 2000. Eric was seeing the Virginia’s more toward the north end of the gully. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- *NYSbirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> *Archives:* The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> *Please submit your observations to **eBird*<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> *!* -- -- 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/ --
