[nysbirds-l] Black-headed Gull at Premium Mill Pond, Larchmont (Westchester County)

[James Coe]

On an otherwise lackluster and rather routine afternoon of birding the
Premium Mill Pond and Larchmont shoreline, I found one immature Black-headed
Gull wading along the shore of the Mill Pond at low tide, with a Ring-bill.

 

I was just visiting the area for the holiday, but I grew up nearby, and have
birded the Premium Mill Pond area consistently for more than 40 years.  This
was the very first Black-headed Gull I've seen in Larchmont. 

 

Photo posted on Flicker:   https://www.flickr.com/photos/128937910@N05/15291103373;
title="BlackheadGull Premium 11 28 14 by James Coe, on Flickr">https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7564/15291103373_ae7dd338d8_z.jpg;
width="640" height="480" alt="BlackheadGull Premium 11 28 14">

 

 

 

 

James Coe

168 Alcove Road

Hannacroix, NY  12087

 

518 731-6981

www.jamescoe.com 

 


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[nysbirds-l] Kings County Rough-legged Hawk +

[Sean Sime]

I decided to scope the landfill and islands around Canarsie pier in Brooklyn as 
dusk approached this evening. I quickly noticed two birds having a bit of a 
scuffle atop one of the landfills to the east of the pier. I was expecting to 
see a Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl mixing it up. To my surprise it was 
a Harrier going after a light phase Rough-legged Hawk! The hawk put down low 
and was kick up twice by the Harrier. Eventually the 2-3 Harriers present went 
about their business and by 4:40 there were no birds visible. At roughly 4:50 I 
picked up an owl over the top of the landfill, likely a Short-eared, but with 
so little light to work with and at such a distance I can't definitively rule 
out other possibilities. Once it flew lower without the sky behind it I lost it 
in the darkness.

Cheers,
Sean Sime 
Brooklyn, NY

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[nysbirds-l] The New York Botanical Garden

[editcon...@aol.com]

Excellent birding day at NYBG. We started out by chasing a TREE SPARROW that 
darted through the birches in the Native Plant Garden. A small flash caught our 
eyes and an ORANGE CROWNED WARBLER jumped up and then quickly down. Suddenly a 
flock of small birds flew by our heads landing in an adjacent tree- PINE 
SISKINS on every branch! There were PURPLE FINCH throughout the garden along 
with House Finch- more numbers than we have seen in many years. American 
Goldfinch were feeding in the sweet gum as were the Purple Finch and Siskins. 
Hawks were plentiful as we watched a skillful NORTHERN GOSHAWK maneuver through 
the forest trees. Down by the lake an AMERICAN KESTREL sat stop a tree. A 
sharp- shinned hawk and Cooper's hawk were also nearby. Red tailed hawks were 
perched on branches. A Belted Kingfisher rattled its presence midair as it 
circled the Twin Lake. 
The garden was full of birds, throughout. 

Chipping sparrow-1
White throated-100+
Song sparrow-4
American Tree sparrow-4
Fox sparrow-3
Cardinal-10
Hermit thrush-6
Mallard-8
Belted kingfisher-1
Rusty blackbird-1
American Robin-15
Blue Jay-26
Pine Siskin-20+
House finch-21
Purple finch-6
Junco 200+
Red breasted nuthatch-1
White breasted nuthatch-3
Chickadee -5
Hairy woodpecker -1
Downy woodpecker -1
Red bellied woodpecker -1
Yellow bellied sapsucker -1
American kestrel-1
Cooper's hawk-2
Sharp shinned hawk-1
Northern goshawk-1
Red tailed hawk-3
Grackles 300+
Mockingbird-1
Red winged blackbird-1
Mourning dove-32

Special thanks to young birder Christopher. 

Good Birding,
Debbie Becker
BirdingAroundNYC.com




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[nysbirds-l] eBird location error

[Michael Britt]

For the local reviewer...I'm not sure why sightings (SEOW, etc., on 11/27 &
11/29) would be accepted from a bogus marker in Orange County, for the
Shawangunk Grasslands, which are in Ulster County? It's not exactly a
"secret spot."

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Bayonne

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[nysbirds-l] Barnacle Gone... Orange-crowned Warbler Suffolk County LI

[David La Magna]

The Barnacle Goose was observed leaving with Canadas southward around 1pm
and has not seemed to have returned to Millers Pond.  A decently extensive
search of surrounding fields was done by myself and Derek Rogers but failed
to turn up the goose.  A large number (possible 30+, I recorded 24
different banding codes) of the Canada Geese have yellow neck collars from
a banding program in Greenland... so any flocks with those geese might have
the Barnacle lurking with them.

Searching led me to Lake Ronkonkoma County Park Lily Pond (this is the park
just north of Lake Ronkonkoma on Portion Road, there is a small turn off
for parking) and there I turned up a "cooperative to the binoculars but not
to the camera" Orange-crowned Warbler in the northwest section of the small
loop trail.  I believe one was reported there by the Four Harbors Audubon
Society about a month ago.

Photo of the orange-crowned and others here: https://flic.kr/p/phLRaQ

-Dave

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[nysbirds-l] bufflehead - swan river preserve - east patchogue

[leormand .]

While a bufflehead on long island in winter is not exactly notable - I'm
making this post to make birders aware of the new park in East Patchogue
called 'Swan River Preserve' which is on the southside of Montauk Highway,
next to friendlys (directly across the street from Swan Lake).  The new
park has a small pond with a vegetated island in the middle making views of
any waterfowl within the pond excellent - as compared to the lake across
the street.  Up until today I had only seen mallards in the pond.
Hopefully this actively feeding bufflehead is a sign of things to come.
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park and vicinity

[Larry Trachtenberg]

To add to Robert and peter's posts of a great morning at croton point there 
were numerous harriers over both main and model air landfill. In the pines at 
parking lot up top were pine warbler, brown creeper, and golden crown kinglet, 
at the ball field a single killdeer, perched on the bay side visible from the 
low road (w the wine cellars) was an adult peregrine, and about a dozen 
savannah sparrow on landfill.

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 29, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Robert Lewis 
mailto:rfer...@yahoo.com>> wrote:

I had an excellent few hour's birding in and around Croton Point Park 
(Westchester County).

Parking lot adjacent and just west of the model airplane field:  around 
11:00am, 5 Pipits, a few dozen Horned Larks, one adult Lapland Longspur.   Then 
a beautiful light phase Rough-legged Hawk flew by and perched in a tree at the 
south end of the lot.

Nature Center Visitor's Center:  It is being staffed and (according to 
naturalist John) will be open at least on weekends all winter.  The usual 
feeder birds.

On the cap around noon:  apparently the same Rough-legged flew over, hovered, 
pounced and caught something.  It flew to a tree at the south end of the cap 
and ate it.  There is a Barred Owl nearby in some trees.

A bit later: at the ball field parking lot (the first field you come to as you 
are just entering): 2 well marked
Lapland Longspurs, Horned Larks, Pipits, Snow Buntings, Am. Tree Sparrow.

Hudson River off Mariandale  (41.1734, -73.8737):  a few dozen Canvasback, a 
few Ring-necked Ducks, a few Redheads, a few dozen Ruddies, two Black Ducks, 
some Canada Geese, one Bufflehead, two Long-tailed Ducks, one female Common 
Goldeneye.

Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY




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Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:16 AM
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park

175 Horned Larks, 3 American Pipits, and 2 Lapland Longspurs. Near the model 
airplane field.

Peter Post



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[nysbirds-l] Cassins Kingbird

[tgrainger]

Good views around 12:30 for about an hour. 
[url=https://flic.kr/p/qeDBLY][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7488/15907016372_30a7ec82c4_s.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/qeDBLY]cassinskingbird[/url]
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park and vicinity

[Robert Lewis]

I had an excellent few hour's birding in and around Croton Point Park 
(Westchester County).
Parking lot adjacent and just west of the model airplane field:  around 
11:00am, 5 Pipits, a few dozen Horned Larks, one adult Lapland Longspur.   Then 
a beautiful light phase Rough-legged Hawk flew by and perched in a tree at the 
south end of the lot.
Nature Center Visitor's Center:  It is being staffed and (according to 
naturalist John) will be open at least on weekends all winter.  The usual 
feeder birds.
On the cap around noon:  apparently the same Rough-legged flew over, hovered, 
pounced and caught something.  It flew to a tree at the south end of the cap 
and ate it.  There is a Barred Owl nearby in some trees.

A bit later: at the ball field parking lot (the first field you come to as you 
are just entering): 2 well marked 
Lapland Longspurs, Horned Larks, Pipits, Snow Buntings, Am. Tree Sparrow.
Hudson River off Mariandale  (41.1734, -73.8737):  a few dozen Canvasback, a 
few Ring-necked Ducks, a few Redheads, a few dozen Ruddies, two Black Ducks, 
some Canada Geese, one Bufflehead, two Long-tailed Ducks, one female Common 
Goldeneye.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY



  From: Peter Post 
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 Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:16 AM
 Subject: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park
   
175 Horned Larks, 3 American Pipits, and 2 Lapland Longspurs. Near the model 
airplane field. 

Peter Post



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[nysbirds-l] Common Ground Dove continues

[Rob Bate]

NE edge of WE 2 parking lot Jones Beach.  Flew out and around. Still in the 
area. 

Rob Bate
Brooklyn



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[nysbirds-l] Thank you for helping is birders of NY

[Justin Lawson]

Just wanted to say thank you to the list and the people that my family met
in southern NY while we were looking to get Cassin's Kingbird and the
Common Ground-Dove. My 7 year old was able to get two life birds. The
Kingbird and the Marbled Godwit for birds 269 and 270 on his little big
year. He wrote his blog this morning and has a pic he took of the kingbird!
His link is www.greatgrayowen.blogspot.com

good birding!



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Justin Lawson
Millbury Ma
My 7yr old's blog
greatgreyowen.blogspot.com

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[nysbirds-l] Barnacle goose Smithtown LI

[David La Magna]

Barnacle goose at millers pond in Smithtown Long Island Suffolk county right 
now 

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[nysbirds-l] Cackling Geese, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx.

[Nadir Souirgi]

There are presently two Cackling Geese on Van Cortlandt Lake. Other notable 
sightings were fly-over American Pipit, fly-over Horned Lark, and at least one 
vocalizing Snow Bunting, though it was never seen.

Keep'em up,

Nadir Souirgi,
Inwood, NYC 

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[nysbirds-l] Cassins Kingbird

[Tim Dunn]

Cassins Kingbird presently being seen at Floyd Bennett near picnic tables. 

Thanks,
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[nysbirds-l] Cassin's Kingbird-yes

[Rob Jett]

Back in picnic area next to community gardens at Floyd Bennett right now

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[nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park

[Peter Post]

175 Horned Larks, 3 American Pipits, and 2 Lapland Longspurs. Near the model 
airplane field. 

Peter Post


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[nysbirds-l] Cassin's Kingbird-yes

[Rob Jett]

Back in picnic area next to community gardens at Floyd Bennett right now

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[nysbirds-l] Common Ground Dove continues

[Rob Bate]

NE edge of WE 2 parking lot Jones Beach.  Flew out and around. Still in the 
area. 

Rob Bate
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park and vicinity

[Robert Lewis]

I had an excellent few hour's birding in and around Croton Point Park 
(Westchester County).
Parking lot adjacent and just west of the model airplane field:  around 
11:00am, 5 Pipits, a few dozen Horned Larks, one adult Lapland Longspur.   Then 
a beautiful light phase Rough-legged Hawk flew by and perched in a tree at the 
south end of the lot.
Nature Center Visitor's Center:  It is being staffed and (according to 
naturalist John) will be open at least on weekends all winter.  The usual 
feeder birds.
On the cap around noon:  apparently the same Rough-legged flew over, hovered, 
pounced and caught something.  It flew to a tree at the south end of the cap 
and ate it.  There is a Barred Owl nearby in some trees.

A bit later: at the ball field parking lot (the first field you come to as you 
are just entering): 2 well marked 
Lapland Longspurs, Horned Larks, Pipits, Snow Buntings, Am. Tree Sparrow.
Hudson River off Mariandale  (41.1734, -73.8737):  a few dozen Canvasback, a 
few Ring-necked Ducks, a few Redheads, a few dozen Ruddies, two Black Ducks, 
some Canada Geese, one Bufflehead, two Long-tailed Ducks, one female Common 
Goldeneye.
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY



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 Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:16 AM
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175 Horned Larks, 3 American Pipits, and 2 Lapland Longspurs. Near the model 
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Peter Post



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[nysbirds-l] Cassins Kingbird

[tgrainger]

Good views around 12:30 for about an hour. 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park and vicinity

[Larry Trachtenberg]

To add to Robert and peter's posts of a great morning at croton point there 
were numerous harriers over both main and model air landfill. In the pines at 
parking lot up top were pine warbler, brown creeper, and golden crown kinglet, 
at the ball field a single killdeer, perched on the bay side visible from the 
low road (w the wine cellars) was an adult peregrine, and about a dozen 
savannah sparrow on landfill.

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 29, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Robert Lewis 
rfer...@yahoo.commailto:rfer...@yahoo.com wrote:

I had an excellent few hour's birding in and around Croton Point Park 
(Westchester County).

Parking lot adjacent and just west of the model airplane field:  around 
11:00am, 5 Pipits, a few dozen Horned Larks, one adult Lapland Longspur.   Then 
a beautiful light phase Rough-legged Hawk flew by and perched in a tree at the 
south end of the lot.

Nature Center Visitor's Center:  It is being staffed and (according to 
naturalist John) will be open at least on weekends all winter.  The usual 
feeder birds.

On the cap around noon:  apparently the same Rough-legged flew over, hovered, 
pounced and caught something.  It flew to a tree at the south end of the cap 
and ate it.  There is a Barred Owl nearby in some trees.

A bit later: at the ball field parking lot (the first field you come to as you 
are just entering): 2 well marked
Lapland Longspurs, Horned Larks, Pipits, Snow Buntings, Am. Tree Sparrow.

Hudson River off Mariandale  (41.1734, -73.8737):  a few dozen Canvasback, a 
few Ring-necked Ducks, a few Redheads, a few dozen Ruddies, two Black Ducks, 
some Canada Geese, one Bufflehead, two Long-tailed Ducks, one female Common 
Goldeneye.

Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY




From: Peter Post pwp...@nyc.rr.commailto:pwp...@nyc.rr.com
To: NYSBIRDS-L nysbird...@list.cornell.edumailto:nysbird...@list.cornell.edu
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:16 AM
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park

175 Horned Larks, 3 American Pipits, and 2 Lapland Longspurs. Near the model 
airplane field.

Peter Post



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[nysbirds-l] bufflehead - swan river preserve - east patchogue

[leormand .]

While a bufflehead on long island in winter is not exactly notable - I'm
making this post to make birders aware of the new park in East Patchogue
called 'Swan River Preserve' which is on the southside of Montauk Highway,
next to friendlys (directly across the street from Swan Lake).  The new
park has a small pond with a vegetated island in the middle making views of
any waterfowl within the pond excellent - as compared to the lake across
the street.  Up until today I had only seen mallards in the pond.
Hopefully this actively feeding bufflehead is a sign of things to come.
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[nysbirds-l] Barnacle Gone... Orange-crowned Warbler Suffolk County LI

[David La Magna]

The Barnacle Goose was observed leaving with Canadas southward around 1pm
and has not seemed to have returned to Millers Pond.  A decently extensive
search of surrounding fields was done by myself and Derek Rogers but failed
to turn up the goose.  A large number (possible 30+, I recorded 24
different banding codes) of the Canada Geese have yellow neck collars from
a banding program in Greenland... so any flocks with those geese might have
the Barnacle lurking with them.

Searching led me to Lake Ronkonkoma County Park Lily Pond (this is the park
just north of Lake Ronkonkoma on Portion Road, there is a small turn off
for parking) and there I turned up a cooperative to the binoculars but not
to the camera Orange-crowned Warbler in the northwest section of the small
loop trail.  I believe one was reported there by the Four Harbors Audubon
Society about a month ago.

Photo of the orange-crowned and others here: https://flic.kr/p/phLRaQ

-Dave

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[nysbirds-l] eBird location error

[Michael Britt]

For the local reviewer...I'm not sure why sightings (SEOW, etc., on 11/27 
11/29) would be accepted from a bogus marker in Orange County, for the
Shawangunk Grasslands, which are in Ulster County? It's not exactly a
secret spot.

Mike Britt
Bayonne

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[nysbirds-l] The New York Botanical Garden

[editcon...@aol.com]

Excellent birding day at NYBG. We started out by chasing a TREE SPARROW that 
darted through the birches in the Native Plant Garden. A small flash caught our 
eyes and an ORANGE CROWNED WARBLER jumped up and then quickly down. Suddenly a 
flock of small birds flew by our heads landing in an adjacent tree- PINE 
SISKINS on every branch! There were PURPLE FINCH throughout the garden along 
with House Finch- more numbers than we have seen in many years. American 
Goldfinch were feeding in the sweet gum as were the Purple Finch and Siskins. 
Hawks were plentiful as we watched a skillful NORTHERN GOSHAWK maneuver through 
the forest trees. Down by the lake an AMERICAN KESTREL sat stop a tree. A 
sharp- shinned hawk and Cooper's hawk were also nearby. Red tailed hawks were 
perched on branches. A Belted Kingfisher rattled its presence midair as it 
circled the Twin Lake. 
The garden was full of birds, throughout. 

Chipping sparrow-1
White throated-100+
Song sparrow-4
American Tree sparrow-4
Fox sparrow-3
Cardinal-10
Hermit thrush-6
Mallard-8
Belted kingfisher-1
Rusty blackbird-1
American Robin-15
Blue Jay-26
Pine Siskin-20+
House finch-21
Purple finch-6
Junco 200+
Red breasted nuthatch-1
White breasted nuthatch-3
Chickadee -5
Hairy woodpecker -1
Downy woodpecker -1
Red bellied woodpecker -1
Yellow bellied sapsucker -1
American kestrel-1
Cooper's hawk-2
Sharp shinned hawk-1
Northern goshawk-1
Red tailed hawk-3
Grackles 300+
Mockingbird-1
Red winged blackbird-1
Mourning dove-32

Special thanks to young birder Christopher. 

Good Birding,
Debbie Becker
BirdingAroundNYC.com




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[nysbirds-l] Kings County Rough-legged Hawk +

[Sean Sime]

I decided to scope the landfill and islands around Canarsie pier in Brooklyn as 
dusk approached this evening. I quickly noticed two birds having a bit of a 
scuffle atop one of the landfills to the east of the pier. I was expecting to 
see a Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl mixing it up. To my surprise it was 
a Harrier going after a light phase Rough-legged Hawk! The hawk put down low 
and was kick up twice by the Harrier. Eventually the 2-3 Harriers present went 
about their business and by 4:40 there were no birds visible. At roughly 4:50 I 
picked up an owl over the top of the landfill, likely a Short-eared, but with 
so little light to work with and at such a distance I can't definitively rule 
out other possibilities. Once it flew lower without the sky behind it I lost it 
in the darkness.

Cheers,
Sean Sime 
Brooklyn, NY

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[nysbirds-l] Black-headed Gull at Premium Mill Pond, Larchmont (Westchester County)

[James Coe]

On an otherwise lackluster and rather routine afternoon of birding the
Premium Mill Pond and Larchmont shoreline, I found one immature Black-headed
Gull wading along the shore of the Mill Pond at low tide, with a Ring-bill.

 

I was just visiting the area for the holiday, but I grew up nearby, and have
birded the Premium Mill Pond area consistently for more than 40 years.  This
was the very first Black-headed Gull I've seen in Larchmont. 

 

Photo posted on Flicker:   a
href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/128937910@N05/15291103373;
title=BlackheadGull Premium 11 28 14 by James Coe, on Flickrimg
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width=640 height=480 alt=BlackheadGull Premium 11 28 14/a

 

 

 

 

James Coe

168 Alcove Road

Hannacroix, NY  12087

 

518 731-6981

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