[nysbirds-l] Geese, Hawks, Bitterns and Sparrows

[ROBERT ADAMO]

Yesterday, after leaving early for the 11 o'clock mass, I spent from 1020 to 
1050, at Meritt's Pond, which is only ~ 30 seconds (as the goose flies) n/o St. 
John the Evangelist R.C. Church ! It was obvious that many of the geese had 
left the pond already, and continued to do so during my entire stay. One of 
those groups was made up of only Snow Geese, 1 white and 5 blues. The only 
other notable sighting was that of a single Cackling Goose, seen while swimming 
on the n/side "half". 
After mass, I headed down to Dune Rd, to try once more for a Red Crossbill. A 
stop along the way at Grabeski Airport produced 1 Kestrel and a flock of ~ 8-10 
sparrows, holding at least 5 Fields and 1 Savannah. Keeping in mind the 
starting time of  Super Bowl 47, I checked pines from w/o Cupsogue's p/lot to 
Shinnicock Inlet, without coming upon a single  winter finch. I did see 1 
N.Harrier, 1 Merlin and 2 A.Bitterns, all on the bay side.
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[nysbirds-l] Yellow-headed Blackbird in Calverton YES 2-3-13

[Arie Gilbert]

I went out to Calverton today to try locating the reported Blackbirds.

The birds were not at the spot reported in an earlier post, so I drove 
around, heading up Manor road. i found some other birders studying the 
flock in the corn stubble  but we could not pick out our target due to 
constant motion of the flock and the poor lighting conditions.


The flock then took off northeast, and moved around quite a bit, making 
finding a vantage point  challenging.


the flock eventually returned to roughly the same location as this am's 
report, where I was finally able to pick one female / imm type.


for those interested in locating this bird, this map will give the area 
described above as the area within which the flock moved.


http://goo.gl/maps/MPQPs

look in trees for the birds as well as fields, that may be an easier way 
to locate the flock.


if the sun is behind you [ ie looking north ] it should make finding one 
easier.


good luck!

Arie Gilbert
North Babylon, NY

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[nysbirds-l] Bloomingdale Bog, Franklin County Feb 3

[scottjstoner]

Today Denise Hackert-Stoner, John Kent and I birded Bloomingdale Bog, walking 
south from CR 55 in Franklin County, west of Bloomingdale, NY in the 
Adirondacks. The variety of species was low but in one area perhaps a half mile 
down the trail we hit the jackpot:


Boreal Chickadee
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
Gray Jay (eating peanuts from our hands) 
plus
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee.


Scott Stoner
Loudonville, NY


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[nysbirds-l] Hudson River Bald Eagles

[Matthew Wills]

I journeyed up to Hudson, NY, on Amtrak Saturday and returned to NYC today. I 
saw six bald eagles on the way up, eight on the way down, mostly juveniles, but 
several mature birds as well, all north of Peekskill and particularly between 
Rhinecliff and Hudson, where there was a lot of ice on the river, particularly 
Sunday. Could easily be some duplicates here, since the same roost had three 
birds Saturday, two Sunday. My viewing out the window was very unscientific and 
sporadic, but does suggest the presence of the birds up there this winter.  

While up north, we walked down Ice House Road to Nutten Hook in Stuyvesant, 
Columbia Co., where we had seven sightings of eagles, three perched on the 
other side of the river, one on the ice in the middle of the river with two 
crows probably eager for leftovers, and the others around the Hook itself. One 
perching mature bird over route 9J was close enough for us to hear the loud 
flap of its wings as it launched itself into the air.


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[nysbirds-l] Croton point park

[Larry Trachtenberg]

>> Sunday afternoon 1130 am-1 pm:
>> 3 meadowlarks and counted 31 in pipits on cap. Pipit flock has been around 
>> since late fall; elsewhere in park: creeper, rb nuthatch, a perched and 
>> preening F Merlin and two bald eagle; kingfisher at railroad boat launch; 
>> waterfowl scarce
>> 
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[nysbirds-l] Ross's Goose and Barnacle Goose present this afternoon

[Glenn Quinn]

Shortly after noon today, the Ross's Goose was being observed in a small (about 
75) flock of Canada Geese at Heckscher State Park (Suffolk). It was seen just 
off the main loop road and north of the field 6 parking lot.
Right about here: 40.702082,-73.17019

Since it only took 5 minutes to find the Ross's, I headed over to the 
Farmingdale area to look for the Barnacle Goose. After first checking the New 
Montefiore, St Charles, and Beth Moses Cemeteries (no sign of life in any of 
these), I found the Barnacle Goose where it had last been reported. It was in a 
huge flock of Canada Geese in the southeast corner of Wellwood Ave and Long 
Island Ave., just south of the LIRR tracks. Right about here: 40.744851, 
-73.398505  Not sure if this cemetery property or golf course property.
I actually stopped the car right on Long Island Ave as traffic was light, but 
then drove north across the tracks and immediately pulled into Pinelawn 
Cemetery, where I picked up the goose again from the southern-most lane in the 
cemetery. The Canada Goose flock was well over 1000.

Having seen the Tufted Duck yesterday at Blydenburgh CP (Suffolk), it made for 
a nice weekend of waterfowl. Thanks to all who posted detailed locations for 
these birds!!

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Hauppauge, NY
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Re: [nysbirds-l] another Calverton Yellow-headed Blackbird (Suffolk Co) YES...

[Andrew Baksh]

Just seen with Arie Gilbert in the same area reported by Richard Kaskan
(see his e-mail below).  It took us several hours of trying our best to
stay with the flock as they'd moved around, so patience is necessary.

Look for a small corn field on your right as you face a sign indicating
Water Park with an arrow pointing ahead.  We had our best looks at the
flock there and that is where we saw the Yellow-headed blackbird.

Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!

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On Feb 3, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Richard Kaskan  wrote:

After doing some early morning birding at Calverton Ponds I found a large
flock of blackbirds a little east of where the Yellow-headed Blackbirds
have been reported recently - this was at 40.925398,-72.730333, just where
Rt 25 becomes 4 lanes heading into Riverhead.  I stayed with this flock for
about an hour, failing to find any adult males, but eventually I did find
what was probably a female, although it could have been a first-year bird.
Most members of the flock were grackles - I don't even want to estimate how
many thousands there were.  But when I located the Yellow-headed Blackbird
it was with a group of mostly Red-winged Blackbirds, north of Rt 25 near
the sign for Rain Irrigation.  Cool bird.

Also of interest for me this morning were two Vesper Sparrows and an
American Kestrel along Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, and a hardy
House Wren at the DEC property in Ridge.  I've seen what I assume is the
same House Wren at this location several times this winter, but this was
the first time I'd seen it since 3 January.

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Re: [nysbirds-l] another Calverton Yellow-headed Blackbird (Suffolk Co)

[Bob Washburn]

Currently on yellow-headed blackbird on service rd at end of Twomey Rd. bird is 
assoc with brown-headed cowbirds 

BOB WASHBURN

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On Feb 3, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Richard Kaskan  wrote:

> After doing some early morning birding at Calverton Ponds I found a large 
> flock of blackbirds a little east of where the Yellow-headed Blackbirds have 
> been reported recently - this was at 40.925398,-72.730333, just where Rt 25 
> becomes 4 lanes heading into Riverhead.  I stayed with this flock for about 
> an hour, failing to find any adult males, but eventually I did find what was 
> probably a female, although it could have been a first-year bird.  Most 
> members of the flock were grackles - I don't even want to estimate how many 
> thousands there were.  But when I located the Yellow-headed Blackbird it was 
> with a group of mostly Red-winged Blackbirds, north of Rt 25 near the sign 
> for Rain Irrigation.  Cool bird.
> 
> Also of interest for me this morning were two Vesper Sparrows and an American 
> Kestrel along Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, and a hardy House Wren at 
> the DEC property in Ridge.  I've seen what I assume is the same House Wren at 
> this location several times this winter, but this was the first time I'd seen 
> it since 3 January.
> 
> Richard Kaskan
> Shoreham, NY
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[nysbirds-l] Ross's Goose Heckscher Fld 6

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[nysbirds-l] American Bittern - Brooklyn's Marine Park

[Robert Bate]

The American Bittern seen recently in the Marine Park Nature Center
continues.   It flew out of some deep reeds just north of the viewing
platform and continued across the channel landing in some deep reeds on the
western shore.   We also saw 4-5 American Pipets, a Kestel, a Great
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[nysbirds-l] another Calverton Yellow-headed Blackbird (Suffolk Co)

[Richard Kaskan]

After doing some early morning birding at Calverton Ponds I found a large
flock of blackbirds a little east of where the Yellow-headed Blackbirds
have been reported recently - this was at 40.925398,-72.730333, just where
Rt 25 becomes 4 lanes heading into Riverhead.  I stayed with this flock for
about an hour, failing to find any adult males, but eventually I did find
what was probably a female, although it could have been a first-year bird.
Most members of the flock were grackles - I don't even want to estimate how
many thousands there were.  But when I located the Yellow-headed Blackbird
it was with a group of mostly Red-winged Blackbirds, north of Rt 25 near
the sign for Rain Irrigation.  Cool bird.

Also of interest for me this morning were two Vesper Sparrows and an
American Kestrel along Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, and a hardy
House Wren at the DEC property in Ridge.  I've seen what I assume is the
same House Wren at this location several times this winter, but this was
the first time I'd seen it since 3 January.

Richard Kaskan
Shoreham, NY

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[nysbirds-l] EURASIAN WIGEONS continue at West Sayville (Suffok)

[Derek Rogers]

Now there are 4 drakes and 2 hens totaling 6 EURASIAN WIGEONS at West Sayville 
Golf Course. I failed to find a 3rd hen, which I noted on 1/20/13 but it could 
very well be here. The herd was feeding tightly among Canada Geese making it 
very difficult to count and locate. Unfortunately I couldn't stick around much 
longer to detail for a 7th bird.

The birds were feeding along the west edge of the pond in the short grass.

Best,
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Sayville
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[nysbirds-l] Pinelawn Geese

[Seth Ausubel]

Rich Kelly and I are looking at a Barnacle Goose and a Greater White-fronted 
Goose among Canada's on the south side of Long Island Avenue in Pinelawn, 
Suffolk County. This is on the north side of the Colonial Springs Golf Course, 
at the Pinelawn LIRR station, just east of Wellwood Av. Still more geese 
arriving...

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[nysbirds-l] Pinelawn Geese

[Seth Ausubel]

Rich Kelly and I are looking at a Barnacle Goose and a Greater White-fronted 
Goose among Canada's on the south side of Long Island Avenue in Pinelawn, 
Suffolk County. This is on the north side of the Colonial Springs Golf Course, 
at the Pinelawn LIRR station, just east of Wellwood Av. Still more geese 
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[nysbirds-l] EURASIAN WIGEONS continue at West Sayville (Suffok)

[Derek Rogers]

Now there are 4 drakes and 2 hens totaling 6 EURASIAN WIGEONS at West Sayville 
Golf Course. I failed to find a 3rd hen, which I noted on 1/20/13 but it could 
very well be here. The herd was feeding tightly among Canada Geese making it 
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The birds were feeding along the west edge of the pond in the short grass.

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[nysbirds-l] another Calverton Yellow-headed Blackbird (Suffolk Co)

[Richard Kaskan]

After doing some early morning birding at Calverton Ponds I found a large
flock of blackbirds a little east of where the Yellow-headed Blackbirds
have been reported recently - this was at 40.925398,-72.730333, just where
Rt 25 becomes 4 lanes heading into Riverhead.  I stayed with this flock for
about an hour, failing to find any adult males, but eventually I did find
what was probably a female, although it could have been a first-year bird.
Most members of the flock were grackles - I don't even want to estimate how
many thousands there were.  But when I located the Yellow-headed Blackbird
it was with a group of mostly Red-winged Blackbirds, north of Rt 25 near
the sign for Rain Irrigation.  Cool bird.

Also of interest for me this morning were two Vesper Sparrows and an
American Kestrel along Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, and a hardy
House Wren at the DEC property in Ridge.  I've seen what I assume is the
same House Wren at this location several times this winter, but this was
the first time I'd seen it since 3 January.

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[nysbirds-l] American Bittern - Brooklyn's Marine Park

[Robert Bate]

The American Bittern seen recently in the Marine Park Nature Center
continues.   It flew out of some deep reeds just north of the viewing
platform and continued across the channel landing in some deep reeds on the
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[nysbirds-l] Ross's Goose Heckscher Fld 6

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Re: [nysbirds-l] another Calverton Yellow-headed Blackbird (Suffolk Co)

[Bob Washburn]

Currently on yellow-headed blackbird on service rd at end of Twomey Rd. bird is 
assoc with brown-headed cowbirds 

BOB WASHBURN

Sent from my underwhelming iPhone

On Feb 3, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Richard Kaskan rkas...@gmail.com wrote:

 After doing some early morning birding at Calverton Ponds I found a large 
 flock of blackbirds a little east of where the Yellow-headed Blackbirds have 
 been reported recently - this was at 40.925398,-72.730333, just where Rt 25 
 becomes 4 lanes heading into Riverhead.  I stayed with this flock for about 
 an hour, failing to find any adult males, but eventually I did find what was 
 probably a female, although it could have been a first-year bird.  Most 
 members of the flock were grackles - I don't even want to estimate how many 
 thousands there were.  But when I located the Yellow-headed Blackbird it was 
 with a group of mostly Red-winged Blackbirds, north of Rt 25 near the sign 
 for Rain Irrigation.  Cool bird.
 
 Also of interest for me this morning were two Vesper Sparrows and an American 
 Kestrel along Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, and a hardy House Wren at 
 the DEC property in Ridge.  I've seen what I assume is the same House Wren at 
 this location several times this winter, but this was the first time I'd seen 
 it since 3 January.
 
 Richard Kaskan
 Shoreham, NY
 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] another Calverton Yellow-headed Blackbird (Suffolk Co) YES...

[Andrew Baksh]

Just seen with Arie Gilbert in the same area reported by Richard Kaskan
(see his e-mail below).  It took us several hours of trying our best to
stay with the flock as they'd moved around, so patience is necessary.

Look for a small corn field on your right as you face a sign indicating
Water Park with an arrow pointing ahead.  We had our best looks at the
flock there and that is where we saw the Yellow-headed blackbird.

Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!

Andrew Baksh
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On Feb 3, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Richard Kaskan rkas...@gmail.com wrote:

After doing some early morning birding at Calverton Ponds I found a large
flock of blackbirds a little east of where the Yellow-headed Blackbirds
have been reported recently - this was at 40.925398,-72.730333, just where
Rt 25 becomes 4 lanes heading into Riverhead.  I stayed with this flock for
about an hour, failing to find any adult males, but eventually I did find
what was probably a female, although it could have been a first-year bird.
Most members of the flock were grackles - I don't even want to estimate how
many thousands there were.  But when I located the Yellow-headed Blackbird
it was with a group of mostly Red-winged Blackbirds, north of Rt 25 near
the sign for Rain Irrigation.  Cool bird.

Also of interest for me this morning were two Vesper Sparrows and an
American Kestrel along Hulse Landing Road in Wading River, and a hardy
House Wren at the DEC property in Ridge.  I've seen what I assume is the
same House Wren at this location several times this winter, but this was
the first time I'd seen it since 3 January.

Richard Kaskan
Shoreham, NY

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[nysbirds-l] Ross's Goose and Barnacle Goose present this afternoon

[Glenn Quinn]

Shortly after noon today, the Ross's Goose was being observed in a small (about 
75) flock of Canada Geese at Heckscher State Park (Suffolk). It was seen just 
off the main loop road and north of the field 6 parking lot.
Right about here: 40.702082,-73.17019

Since it only took 5 minutes to find the Ross's, I headed over to the 
Farmingdale area to look for the Barnacle Goose. After first checking the New 
Montefiore, St Charles, and Beth Moses Cemeteries (no sign of life in any of 
these), I found the Barnacle Goose where it had last been reported. It was in a 
huge flock of Canada Geese in the southeast corner of Wellwood Ave and Long 
Island Ave., just south of the LIRR tracks. Right about here: 40.744851, 
-73.398505  Not sure if this cemetery property or golf course property.
I actually stopped the car right on Long Island Ave as traffic was light, but 
then drove north across the tracks and immediately pulled into Pinelawn 
Cemetery, where I picked up the goose again from the southern-most lane in the 
cemetery. The Canada Goose flock was well over 1000.

Having seen the Tufted Duck yesterday at Blydenburgh CP (Suffolk), it made for 
a nice weekend of waterfowl. Thanks to all who posted detailed locations for 
these birds!!

Glenn Quinn
Hauppauge, NY
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[nysbirds-l] Croton point park

[Larry Trachtenberg]

 Sunday afternoon 1130 am-1 pm:
 3 meadowlarks and counted 31 in pipits on cap. Pipit flock has been around 
 since late fall; elsewhere in park: creeper, rb nuthatch, a perched and 
 preening F Merlin and two bald eagle; kingfisher at railroad boat launch; 
 waterfowl scarce
 
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 Ossining 
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[nysbirds-l] Hudson River Bald Eagles

[Matthew Wills]

I journeyed up to Hudson, NY, on Amtrak Saturday and returned to NYC today. I 
saw six bald eagles on the way up, eight on the way down, mostly juveniles, but 
several mature birds as well, all north of Peekskill and particularly between 
Rhinecliff and Hudson, where there was a lot of ice on the river, particularly 
Sunday. Could easily be some duplicates here, since the same roost had three 
birds Saturday, two Sunday. My viewing out the window was very unscientific and 
sporadic, but does suggest the presence of the birds up there this winter.  

While up north, we walked down Ice House Road to Nutten Hook in Stuyvesant, 
Columbia Co., where we had seven sightings of eagles, three perched on the 
other side of the river, one on the ice in the middle of the river with two 
crows probably eager for leftovers, and the others around the Hook itself. One 
perching mature bird over route 9J was close enough for us to hear the loud 
flap of its wings as it launched itself into the air.


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[nysbirds-l] Bloomingdale Bog, Franklin County Feb 3

[scottjstoner]

Today Denise Hackert-Stoner, John Kent and I birded Bloomingdale Bog, walking 
south from CR 55 in Franklin County, west of Bloomingdale, NY in the 
Adirondacks. The variety of species was low but in one area perhaps a half mile 
down the trail we hit the jackpot:


Boreal Chickadee
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
Gray Jay (eating peanuts from our hands) 
plus
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee.


Scott Stoner
Loudonville, NY


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[nysbirds-l] Yellow-headed Blackbird in Calverton YES 2-3-13

[Arie Gilbert]

I went out to Calverton today to try locating the reported Blackbirds.

The birds were not at the spot reported in an earlier post, so I drove 
around, heading up Manor road. i found some other birders studying the 
flock in the corn stubble  but we could not pick out our target due to 
constant motion of the flock and the poor lighting conditions.


The flock then took off northeast, and moved around quite a bit, making 
finding a vantage point  challenging.


the flock eventually returned to roughly the same location as this am's 
report, where I was finally able to pick one female / imm type.


for those interested in locating this bird, this map will give the area 
described above as the area within which the flock moved.


http://goo.gl/maps/MPQPs

look in trees for the birds as well as fields, that may be an easier way 
to locate the flock.


if the sun is behind you [ ie looking north ] it should make finding one 
easier.


good luck!

Arie Gilbert
North Babylon, NY

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[nysbirds-l] Geese, Hawks, Bitterns and Sparrows

[ROBERT ADAMO]

Yesterday, after leaving early for the 11 o'clock mass, I spent from 1020 to 
1050, at Meritt's Pond, which is only ~ 30 seconds (as the goose flies) n/o St. 
John the Evangelist R.C. Church ! It was obvious that many of the geese had 
left the pond already, and continued to do so during my entire stay. One of 
those groups was made up of only Snow Geese, 1 white and 5 blues. The only 
other notable sighting was that of a single Cackling Goose, seen while swimming 
on the n/side half. 
After mass, I headed down to Dune Rd, to try once more for a Red Crossbill. A 
stop along the way at Grabeski Airport produced 1 Kestrel and a flock of ~ 8-10 
sparrows, holding at least 5 Fields and 1 Savannah. Keeping in mind the 
starting time of  Super Bowl 47, I checked pines from w/o Cupsogue's p/lot to 
Shinnicock Inlet, without coming upon a single  winter finch. I did see 1 
N.Harrier, 1 Merlin and 2 A.Bitterns, all on the bay side.
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