I spent most of the day scoping Gravesend Bay from 3 different vantage points.
Highlights included:
1 Tropicbird sp.
1 Cory's Shearwater
2 Wilson's Storm Petrel
3 Leach's Storm Petrel
1 Red Phalarope
6 Parasitic Jaeger
2 Royal Tern
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I had hope to head to Hamlin Beach, but the park was closed due to the
storm. Nice to see many Brant, and the Osprey was nice at this late date as
well.
Joe Fell
Buffalo, NY
Braddock Bay, Monroe, US-NY
Oct 30, 2012 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: 50 F cloud
As many as 15 or more birders spent part or most of the day on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan (the 70's) on the Hudson River. Since no
one else has posted the results to this list I thought I would list
the highlights.
American Oystercatcher. 1 flying down river. A first (?) for NY Coun
I watched Lake Ontario for almost 4 hours today (10:53-12:53, 2:55-4:35) at
Shadigee in the Town of Yates (North end of Rt. 63) and saw lots of movement.
Highlights included numbers of Brant, Black Scoter, and Purple Sandpipers.
Red-throated Loon - 6
Common Loon - 8
Red-necked Grebe - 3
Horned G
The lack of geographic specificity is killing me! Come on, people!!
Fred Baumgarten
Sharon, CT/Westchester, NY
And points in between
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All seen from Alice Austin House in Staten Island. This looks out onto NY
harbor.
Summary of birds seen during the day:
3 pomarine jaeger
Minimum of 11 parasitic jaegers. 11 were seen at once. Many more were seen but
some were reluctant to fly under the bridge and were circling. Not sure how
John Ascher and I checked out the Verrazano Narrows from the Brooklyn side. The
best bird was a single Royal Tern seen from the Bay Parkway Mall. 30 plus
Gannets were in the Narrows, some ranging north of the bridge. Good numbers of
Laughing Gulls plus a few Boneparte's Gulls and Common Terns we
Today from 9am to 2pm, I was able to get out and bird the Hudson River between
Newburgh and Cornwall in Orange County. All the normal stuff until about
12:30. After 12:30, I had the following:
4 - Common Loon in a group
10- Surf Scoter
1- Shearwater Species ( too far out to ID/rain) Painful!!!
Sorry for not having more information on the location. I was in the field
viewing the bird and had my wife make the post.
River Rd. is just south of Port Ewen which is south of Kingston.
Viewed the Wilson's Petrel from 12:00-12:50. Spent only about 15 minutes in
the air. Most of the time it
About 1:00 pm, from Sleepy Hollow, a flock of about 50 brant flying south in
the middle of the Hudson. Nothing else but 2 gulls way off.
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
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Please be specific. Where is "River Road"?
Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY
--- On Tue, 10/30/12, Jim Clinton wrote:
> From: Jim Clinton
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] wilsons petrel
> To: "nysbirds-L"
> Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 12:16 PM
> Wilsons Petrel - River Rd - light
> house park
> 12:15
>
There is an American avocet at flushing meadows park in queens. From the
parking lot at the north end of the lake walk onto the little bridge and look
left. It is huddled down against the flooded marsh grass.
Good birding,
Corey Finger
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Wilsons Petrel - River Rd - light house park
12:15
must enter from south end of river rd. north end is closed.
Jim Clinton
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Spent most of the early morning in a futile attempt to find a spot to
look over the bay. Most roads were either heavily flooded or had
downed trees blocking them.
A search of the large Patchogue lakes yielded nothing much in the way
of storm birds.
We finally found a vantage point to scope B
1 leach's storm petrel
1 Wilson's storm petrel
5 parasitic jaeger
Between 11:00 and 12
Isaac grant and Ed Johnson
Isaac Grant
Senior Loan Officer
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This could end up being a duplicate post, but wanted to get the word out for
another good Upstate bird:
Brad Walker has spotted a Leach's Storm-Petrel out from Myers Point Town Park
on the Eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. This is located in the Town of Lansing,
NY, about 20 minutes North of Ithaca
Chris Wood just reported on Cayugabirds that he is watching an adult ROSS'S
GULL on Cayuga Lake from Long Point State Park, in Aurora. He described the
bird as being "across the lake". Long Point is on the eastern shore of
Cayuga Lake. I'm sure we'll be getting more details soon.
-Scott
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11:15am with Peter Polshek.
Anthony Collerton.
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About 9 am I had a Red Phalarope land in the ship canal visible from my
apartment window at West 218th Street next to Inwood Hill Park in northern
Manhattan. The bird drifted westward towards Spuyten Duyvil and the Hudson
River. We tried to bird the Hudson from the west end of Dyckmann Street, but
At Alice Austin house looking into NY Harbor. I've had 3 pomarine and 2
parasitic jaegers.
2 leach's storm petrels were reported from the Brooklyn side of the harbor.
Isaac Grant
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Between clean-up chores around the house and neighborhood, I watched for any
storm driven birds out over the Hudson River.
Bottom Line - None
Here along the Hudson River, we did have some minor flooding (unless it was
your basement that took on water or road flooded). There had been some
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