Hi all, FinchFest 2020-2021 continues I went to one of my local central NY patches yesterday, and ended the day with 120 Red Crossbills (all sounded like type 10; some recordings obtained), 11 White-winged Crossbills, 188 Common Redpolls, 12 American Goldfinches, a few Pine Siskins, 16 Purple Finches, 1 House Finch, 21 Evening Grosbeaks and a fairly close flyby immature/female type Pine Grosbeak -- Only dipped on Hoary Redpoll for the 10 eastern finches. A friend went to another local patch and also had a Pine Grosbeak and much of the same — So that makes for a few Pine Grosbeaks south of the Ontario lakeplain. I think there's a 70-75% a couple small flocks make it to northern PA. Here's the main checklist from yesterday. https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S76563061
stay safe everyone! Matt P.S. Here's a couple articles the Finch Research Network has published on this year's finch superflight. https://finchnetwork.org/irruption-alert-redpolls-ride-south-in-perhaps-their-largest-push-in-almost-a-decade https://finchnetwork.org/irruption-alert-evening-grosbeaks-are-moving-in-largest-numbers-in-20-years -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
