[nysbirds-l] Red shouldered Hawk

[Andreas Kanon]

The Red Shouldered hawks are back in the marsh behind our house in Harriman
again. Most likely nesting in the area as they have been coming back for 3
years now and I can hear their calls on occasion.

Here's a link to some photos I took of one of them he was eyeing the
squirrels at our birdfeeder.

http://www.kanon.photos/updates/local-visitor

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[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots - Updated for Feb/2015

[Ben Cacace]

The wiki pages for NYS eBird hotspots are updated for the month of
Feb/2015. These pages provide supplemental information and easy/direct
access to many eBird.org pages. Hopefully they will provide the details
needed for each of the hotspots covered.

The pages on the wiki covers each of the 62 counties. There are currently
15 counties that have details for individual hotspots for a total of 207
pages covering a 741 hotspots. This is roughly 20% of the 3,800+ hotspots
for all of New York State.

The counties with pages for hotspots are highlighted in gold and green in
the alphabetical listing at the bottom of the home page.

Updating the pages includes correcting the species number for the tables on
the county pages and for New York State. The color coding which highlights
each county and hotspot location is based on the species total. These
colors are based on the colors used on the eBird.org maps and range from
gray to blue to green to yellow to orange to red from lowest # of species
to highest.

A discussion section has been added to each page. If you'd like to add
comments, critiques, suggestions for links or descriptions for the county
or location pages you can sign up for a wikispaces account. To join you'll
need to provide a username, password, email account and you can answer no
to the "Make a wiki?" query.

A new species has been added to the New York State totals (currently 464
spp.) but since the new state species is not a recent find it is not so
easy to determine which is the addition.

Here's the main page. You can get to each of the counties through the
clickable map or the alphabetical list of counties with the NYC area
grouped at the end of the list.

http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York

You can view a test discussion I setup on the following page:

http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/nycountysingles

Enjoy!
-- 
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Manhattan, NYC
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[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach BOHEMIAN WAXWING photos

[John Gluth]

Two photos of today’s BOHEMIAN WAXWING at Jones Beach State Park can be viewed 
embedded within my eBird checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21788470 


Other highlights seen during my 5 hour visit included the RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 
found by Ken Feustel yesterday, and a roaming flock of ~30 COMMON REDPOLL. 
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[nysbirds-l] dune road - EPCAL

[leormand .]

Dune road was very quiet today.  Large portions of Tiana Bay are frozen
over with black ducks and gulls everywhere.  Only saw one Northern Harrier
that we spooked from the shoulder of the road.  Plenty of Scoters near the
inlet (on the west side of the jetty) but didn't spend the time to see if
anything interesting and unusual was in there.

EPCAL was very quiet (did a quick drive-thru) and security was posted at
the entrance to the runway.  No sighting of the Artists' Lake/Patchogue
Lake bald eagle either.  Patchogue lake did have a few Canvasback ducks
though

Also visited the mouth of the Carmans River - a few species of ducks
including coots.  One Northern Harrier - but nothing else of note.

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[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 12 Feb 2015

[David Suggs]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/12/2015
* NYBU1502.12
- Birds mentioned

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  BOHEMIAN WAXWING
  PINE WARBLER
  HARLEQUIN DUCK
  Great Blue Heron
  Tundra Swan
  American Wigeon
  Ring-necked Duck
  Lesser Scaup
  Long-tailed Duck
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Common Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Bald Eagle
  Peregrine Falcon
  Glaucous Gull
  Snowy Owl
  Horned Lark
  Common Raven
  Eastern Bluebird
  American Robin
  Cedar Waxwing
  Lapland Longspur
  Snow Bunting
  Purple Finch

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  Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date: 02/12/2015
  Number:   716-896-1271
  To Report:Same
  Compiler: David F. Suggs
  Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
  Website:  www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org

  Thursday, February 12, 2015

  The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your
  Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological
  Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press
  the pound key to report sightings before the end of this
  report.

  Highlights of reports received February 7 through February
  12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN
  WAXWING, PINE WARBLER and HARLEQUIN DUCK.

  In Niagara County, at the Lake Ontario shore, February 8 and
  10, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING at Fort Niagara State Park.
  The BOHEMIAN WAXWING was among 30 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 4 AMERICAN
  ROBINS and 4 PURPLE FINCHES, feeding in the fruit trees at
  the park's north entrance booths.

  On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, an immature male PINE
  WARBLER has been at a suet feeder in Port Weller since mid-
  January, at 709 Read Road, at the north end of the road at
  Lake Ontario.

  Plentiful waterfowl on the upper Niagara River were
  highlighted by two separate HARLEQUIN DUCKS, a male and a
  female, seen from the pier at the north end of Squaw Island
  Park in Buffalo's Black Rock section.

  Other waterfowl on the river - abundant COMMON GOLDENEYES
  and COMMON MERGANSERS, plus small numbers of LONG-TAILED
  DUCKS, LESSER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and SURF SCOTERS.
  At the Mid-River Marina in Tonawanda - 14 TUNDRA SWANS,
  AMERICAN WIGEON, a pair of RING-NECKED DUCKS and numbers of
  LESSER SCAUP. Also 15 GREAT BLUE HERONS and a roosted BALD
  EAGLE at the marina. Several GLAUCOUS GULLS on the upper
  river, and a pair of BALD EAGLES at the Strawberry Island
  nest.

  Dunkirk Harbor also shelters waterfowl on Lake Erie - at
  least 12 species on February 11 highlighted by adult males
  of both SURF SCOTER and RUDDY DUCK, plus 12 distant BALD
  EAGLES and a PEREGRINE FALCON on the power plant.

  February 9 in Buffalo, 2 COMMON RAVENS, mobbed by AMERICAN
  CROWS, flying past the intersection of Delaware and Amherst
  Streets.

  At several locations in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara
  and Orleans Counties, flocks of 500 or more SNOW BUNTINGS,
  with smaller numbers of HORNED LARKS and up to 40 LAPLAND
  LONGSPURS. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains, 7 EASTERN
  BLUEBIRDS at a feeder in the lakeshore community of Sunset
  Beach in Carlton. Flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS and HORNED LARKS
  also attracted to farmlands in Genesee County.

  And, two to three SNOWY OWLS continue at the Batavia Airport
  and a single SNOWY OWL and 2 BLACK SCOTERS at the Erie Basin
  Marina in Buffalo.

  The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February
  19. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may
  report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and
  reporting.

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[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon

[Carena Pooth]

>From Bill Steele today 2/12/15:

 

2:49pm:  Just spotted gyrfalcon off old fort rd, chasing ducks, headed SE
across hoagerburgh rd in pursuit. 2:35pm

 

3:01:  He's now in dead tree north side of old fort rd.

 

 

 


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[nysbirds-l] Bohemian Waxing

[Robert A. Proniewych]

Just a repost of my earlier post to clarify. The BOWA was discovered at the
West End 2 turn around. It was not associating with any other birds. It
flew into the center and was subsequently refound. West End 2 is part of
Jones Beach State Park for those unfamiliar with the area.
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[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon NO 2/12

[Gabriel Willow]

David Burg and I scoured the area around Blue Chip Farm & the Shawangunk 
Grasslands in Wallkill for the Gyrfalcon today from about 9-1.  We did not 
locate the bird; however, we also noted a surprising absence of other birders, 
only encountering 2 or 3, so it's entirely possible the bird was hiding out 
somewhere undetected (there's a lot of meadows & woods to cover up there).

We went down Old Hoagerburgh Rd, Bates Ln/ Old Fort Rd, Burnt Meadows Rd, Red 
Mill Rd & Watchtower Farm, and Sax/Sac Rd, to no avail.

However, we had a lovely morning and some other nice sightings:

Numerous Red-tailed Hawk (at least 9)
Rough-legged Hawk (2 dark morph & 2-3 light morph, mostly at the Grasslands)
Turkey Vulture (2)
Black Vulture (2)
Merlin (1 female)
American Kestrel (1 male)
Wild Turkey (flock of 19)
Pileated Woodpecker (a confiding pair at close range)
Eastern Bluebird (flock of 5 at Grasslands parking lot)
American Tree Sparrow
Typical feeder birds (titmice, chickadees, juncos, song sparrow etc)

I hope others locate the falcon!

Good winter birding,

Gabriel Willow
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[nysbirds-l] Bohemian Waxwing

[Robert A. Proniewych]

At WE2 rurn around.
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[nysbirds-l] Pink-footed Goose continues on Riverhead Farm Fields (Suffolk Co.)

[Ken Feustel]

The long-present Pink-footed Goose was observed (in a snow shower) at about 
10:45 AM this morning with a flock of some 800 Canada Geese on the west side of 
Northville Turnpike (west of Rt. 105, east of Doctor’s Path). Not much else 
besides the geese.

Ken & Sue Feustel
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[nysbirds-l] Thick-Billed Murre Brooklyn (Kings County)

[Shane Blodgett]

Looking at a Thick-Billed Murre in Coney Island Creek about 50 yards off the 
Leonard Kaiser Park Pier I am standing on. Swimming towards the mouth of the 
creek and Gravesend Bay.

Shane Blodgett

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Re: [nysbirds-l] Shawangunk Gyr Falcon 2/11 Not Seen

[Mardi Dickinson]

Andrew, Curt et al,

UPDATE DETAILS: We arrived on Weds, 2/11 from 11:15AM to 5:10PM. We checked 
intel on Old Fort Road with NO sightings of Gyrfalcon. We continued to drive 
down old Fort Road and around the surrounding roads of Sacs/Sax Road, Bruyn 
Turnpike, Hoagerburgh Road, Lippincott Road, Bates Lane, Long Lane, Albany Post 
Road including Shawabgunk Grasslands. Then went back to Old Fort Hill Road for 
the duration. By the end NO GYFALCON we know of was seen on weds 2/11 despite 
the efforts of over 100 observers. 

Cheers,
Mardi & Townsend Dickinson
Norwalk, CT
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On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Andrew Baksh  wrote:

> Thanks for the update Curt. There was someone reporting online to have seen 
> this bird yesterday around 2:00 pm near Bryun Turnpike. I asked for 
> clarification but did not get any.
> 
> I was curious whether this was a single observation given the many people 
> that were reported to be onsite. Not that it could not happen but it would 
> certainly help for those who are hopeful that the bird is still in the area.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 風　Swift as the wind
> 林　Quiet as the forest
> 火　Conquer like the fire
> 山　Steady as the mountain
> Sun Tzu  The Art of War
> 
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>> (= '.'=)
>> (") _ (") 
>> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 
> 
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> 
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Curt McDermott  wrote:
> 
>>  As of 5:45PM on Wednesday, 2/11, there were NO reported sightings of 
>> the bird for the day, despite the efforts of over 100 potential observers.
>> 
>>  If I should learn of any today, I will post immediately.
>> 
>> Good Birding,
>>   Curt McDermott
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Shawangunk Gyr Falcon 2/11 Not Seen

[Andrew Baksh]

Thanks for the update Curt. There was someone reporting online to have seen
this bird yesterday around 2:00 pm near Bryun Turnpike. I asked for
clarification but did not get any.

I was curious whether this was a single observation given the many people
that were reported to be onsite. Not that it could not happen but it would
certainly help for those who are hopeful that the bird is still in the area.

Cheers,

風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu   *The Art of War*


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On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Curt McDermott  wrote:

  As of 5:45PM on Wednesday, 2/11, there were NO reported sightings of
the bird for the day, despite the efforts of over 100 potential observers.

 If I should learn of any today, I will post immediately.

Good Birding,
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[nysbirds-l] Shawangunk Gyr Falcon 2/11 Not Seen

[Curt McDermott]

 As of 5:45PM on Wednesday, 2/11, there were NO reported sightings of the 
bird for the day, despite the efforts of over 100 potential observers.
 If I should learn of any today, I will post immediately.

Good Birding,  Curt McDermott


  
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[nysbirds-l] Bohemian Waxing

[Robert A. Proniewych]

Just a repost of my earlier post to clarify. The BOWA was discovered at the
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flew into the center and was subsequently refound. West End 2 is part of
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[nysbirds-l] Pink-footed Goose continues on Riverhead Farm Fields (Suffolk Co.)

[Ken Feustel]

The long-present Pink-footed Goose was observed (in a snow shower) at about 
10:45 AM this morning with a flock of some 800 Canada Geese on the west side of 
Northville Turnpike (west of Rt. 105, east of Doctor’s Path). Not much else 
besides the geese.

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[nysbirds-l] Bohemian Waxwing

[Robert A. Proniewych]

At WE2 rurn around.
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[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon NO 2/12

[Gabriel Willow]

David Burg and I scoured the area around Blue Chip Farm  the Shawangunk 
Grasslands in Wallkill for the Gyrfalcon today from about 9-1.  We did not 
locate the bird; however, we also noted a surprising absence of other birders, 
only encountering 2 or 3, so it's entirely possible the bird was hiding out 
somewhere undetected (there's a lot of meadows  woods to cover up there).

We went down Old Hoagerburgh Rd, Bates Ln/ Old Fort Rd, Burnt Meadows Rd, Red 
Mill Rd  Watchtower Farm, and Sax/Sac Rd, to no avail.

However, we had a lovely morning and some other nice sightings:

Numerous Red-tailed Hawk (at least 9)
Rough-legged Hawk (2 dark morph  2-3 light morph, mostly at the Grasslands)
Turkey Vulture (2)
Black Vulture (2)
Merlin (1 female)
American Kestrel (1 male)
Wild Turkey (flock of 19)
Pileated Woodpecker (a confiding pair at close range)
Eastern Bluebird (flock of 5 at Grasslands parking lot)
American Tree Sparrow
Typical feeder birds (titmice, chickadees, juncos, song sparrow etc)

I hope others locate the falcon!

Good winter birding,

Gabriel Willow
Nyc Audubon 




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[nysbirds-l] Thick-Billed Murre Brooklyn (Kings County)

[Shane Blodgett]

Looking at a Thick-Billed Murre in Coney Island Creek about 50 yards off the 
Leonard Kaiser Park Pier I am standing on. Swimming towards the mouth of the 
creek and Gravesend Bay.

Shane Blodgett

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[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 12 Feb 2015

[David Suggs]

- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 02/12/2015
* NYBU1502.12
- Birds mentioned

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  BOHEMIAN WAXWING
  PINE WARBLER
  HARLEQUIN DUCK
  Great Blue Heron
  Tundra Swan
  American Wigeon
  Ring-necked Duck
  Lesser Scaup
  Long-tailed Duck
  Black Scoter
  Surf Scoter
  White-winged Scoter
  Common Goldeneye
  Common Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Bald Eagle
  Peregrine Falcon
  Glaucous Gull
  Snowy Owl
  Horned Lark
  Common Raven
  Eastern Bluebird
  American Robin
  Cedar Waxwing
  Lapland Longspur
  Snow Bunting
  Purple Finch

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  Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date: 02/12/2015
  Number:   716-896-1271
  To Report:Same
  Compiler: David F. Suggs
  Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
  Website:  www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org

  Thursday, February 12, 2015

  The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your
  Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological
  Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press
  the pound key to report sightings before the end of this
  report.

  Highlights of reports received February 7 through February
  12 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BOHEMIAN
  WAXWING, PINE WARBLER and HARLEQUIN DUCK.

  In Niagara County, at the Lake Ontario shore, February 8 and
  10, a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING at Fort Niagara State Park.
  The BOHEMIAN WAXWING was among 30 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 4 AMERICAN
  ROBINS and 4 PURPLE FINCHES, feeding in the fruit trees at
  the park's north entrance booths.

  On the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, an immature male PINE
  WARBLER has been at a suet feeder in Port Weller since mid-
  January, at 709 Read Road, at the north end of the road at
  Lake Ontario.

  Plentiful waterfowl on the upper Niagara River were
  highlighted by two separate HARLEQUIN DUCKS, a male and a
  female, seen from the pier at the north end of Squaw Island
  Park in Buffalo's Black Rock section.

  Other waterfowl on the river - abundant COMMON GOLDENEYES
  and COMMON MERGANSERS, plus small numbers of LONG-TAILED
  DUCKS, LESSER SCAUP, WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and SURF SCOTERS.
  At the Mid-River Marina in Tonawanda - 14 TUNDRA SWANS,
  AMERICAN WIGEON, a pair of RING-NECKED DUCKS and numbers of
  LESSER SCAUP. Also 15 GREAT BLUE HERONS and a roosted BALD
  EAGLE at the marina. Several GLAUCOUS GULLS on the upper
  river, and a pair of BALD EAGLES at the Strawberry Island
  nest.

  Dunkirk Harbor also shelters waterfowl on Lake Erie - at
  least 12 species on February 11 highlighted by adult males
  of both SURF SCOTER and RUDDY DUCK, plus 12 distant BALD
  EAGLES and a PEREGRINE FALCON on the power plant.

  February 9 in Buffalo, 2 COMMON RAVENS, mobbed by AMERICAN
  CROWS, flying past the intersection of Delaware and Amherst
  Streets.

  At several locations in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara
  and Orleans Counties, flocks of 500 or more SNOW BUNTINGS,
  with smaller numbers of HORNED LARKS and up to 40 LAPLAND
  LONGSPURS. Also in the Lake Ontario Plains, 7 EASTERN
  BLUEBIRDS at a feeder in the lakeshore community of Sunset
  Beach in Carlton. Flocks of SNOW BUNTINGS and HORNED LARKS
  also attracted to farmlands in Genesee County.

  And, two to three SNOWY OWLS continue at the Batavia Airport
  and a single SNOWY OWL and 2 BLACK SCOTERS at the Erie Basin
  Marina in Buffalo.

  The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February
  19. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may
  report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and
  reporting.

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[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots - Updated for Feb/2015

[Ben Cacace]

The wiki pages for NYS eBird hotspots are updated for the month of
Feb/2015. These pages provide supplemental information and easy/direct
access to many eBird.org pages. Hopefully they will provide the details
needed for each of the hotspots covered.

The pages on the wiki covers each of the 62 counties. There are currently
15 counties that have details for individual hotspots for a total of 207
pages covering a 741 hotspots. This is roughly 20% of the 3,800+ hotspots
for all of New York State.

The counties with pages for hotspots are highlighted in gold and green in
the alphabetical listing at the bottom of the home page.

Updating the pages includes correcting the species number for the tables on
the county pages and for New York State. The color coding which highlights
each county and hotspot location is based on the species total. These
colors are based on the colors used on the eBird.org maps and range from
gray to blue to green to yellow to orange to red from lowest # of species
to highest.

A discussion section has been added to each page. If you'd like to add
comments, critiques, suggestions for links or descriptions for the county
or location pages you can sign up for a wikispaces account. To join you'll
need to provide a username, password, email account and you can answer no
to the Make a wiki? query.

A new species has been added to the New York State totals (currently 464
spp.) but since the new state species is not a recent find it is not so
easy to determine which is the addition.

Here's the main page. You can get to each of the counties through the
clickable map or the alphabetical list of counties with the NYC area
grouped at the end of the list.

http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York

You can view a test discussion I setup on the following page:

http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/nycountysingles

Enjoy!
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Manhattan, NYC
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[nysbirds-l] dune road - EPCAL

[leormand .]

Dune road was very quiet today.  Large portions of Tiana Bay are frozen
over with black ducks and gulls everywhere.  Only saw one Northern Harrier
that we spooked from the shoulder of the road.  Plenty of Scoters near the
inlet (on the west side of the jetty) but didn't spend the time to see if
anything interesting and unusual was in there.

EPCAL was very quiet (did a quick drive-thru) and security was posted at
the entrance to the runway.  No sighting of the Artists' Lake/Patchogue
Lake bald eagle either.  Patchogue lake did have a few Canvasback ducks
though

Also visited the mouth of the Carmans River - a few species of ducks
including coots.  One Northern Harrier - but nothing else of note.

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[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach BOHEMIAN WAXWING photos

[John Gluth]

Two photos of today’s BOHEMIAN WAXWING at Jones Beach State Park can be viewed 
embedded within my eBird checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21788470 
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21788470

Other highlights seen during my 5 hour visit included the RED-SHOULDERED HAWK 
found by Ken Feustel yesterday, and a roaming flock of ~30 COMMON REDPOLL. 
Photos of these also in checklist.
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[nysbirds-l] Red shouldered Hawk

[Andreas Kanon]

The Red Shouldered hawks are back in the marsh behind our house in Harriman
again. Most likely nesting in the area as they have been coming back for 3
years now and I can hear their calls on occasion.

Here's a link to some photos I took of one of them he was eyeing the
squirrels at our birdfeeder.

http://www.kanon.photos/updates/local-visitor

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[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon

[Carena Pooth]

From Bill Steele today 2/12/15:

 

2:49pm:  Just spotted gyrfalcon off old fort rd, chasing ducks, headed SE
across hoagerburgh rd in pursuit. 2:35pm

 

3:01:  He's now in dead tree north side of old fort rd.

 

 

 


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[nysbirds-l] Shawangunk Gyr Falcon 2/11 Not Seen

[Curt McDermott]

 As of 5:45PM on Wednesday, 2/11, there were NO reported sightings of the 
bird for the day, despite the efforts of over 100 potential observers.
 If I should learn of any today, I will post immediately.

Good Birding,  Curt McDermott


  
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Shawangunk Gyr Falcon 2/11 Not Seen

[Andrew Baksh]

Thanks for the update Curt. There was someone reporting online to have seen
this bird yesterday around 2:00 pm near Bryun Turnpike. I asked for
clarification but did not get any.

I was curious whether this was a single observation given the many people
that were reported to be onsite. Not that it could not happen but it would
certainly help for those who are hopeful that the bird is still in the area.

Cheers,

風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu http://refspace.com/quotes/Sun_Tzu  *The Art of War*
http://refspace.com/quotes/The_Art_of_War

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On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Curt McDermott tele-...@hotmail.com wrote:

  As of 5:45PM on Wednesday, 2/11, there were NO reported sightings of
the bird for the day, despite the efforts of over 100 potential observers.

 If I should learn of any today, I will post immediately.

Good Birding,
  Curt McDermott


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Re: [nysbirds-l] Shawangunk Gyr Falcon 2/11 Not Seen

[Mardi Dickinson]

Andrew, Curt et al,

UPDATE DETAILS: We arrived on Weds, 2/11 from 11:15AM to 5:10PM. We checked 
intel on Old Fort Road with NO sightings of Gyrfalcon. We continued to drive 
down old Fort Road and around the surrounding roads of Sacs/Sax Road, Bruyn 
Turnpike, Hoagerburgh Road, Lippincott Road, Bates Lane, Long Lane, Albany Post 
Road including Shawabgunk Grasslands. Then went back to Old Fort Hill Road for 
the duration. By the end NO GYFALCON we know of was seen on weds 2/11 despite 
the efforts of over 100 observers. 

Cheers,
Mardi  Townsend Dickinson
Norwalk, CT
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On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Andrew Baksh birdingd...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks for the update Curt. There was someone reporting online to have seen 
 this bird yesterday around 2:00 pm near Bryun Turnpike. I asked for 
 clarification but did not get any.
 
 I was curious whether this was a single observation given the many people 
 that were reported to be onsite. Not that it could not happen but it would 
 certainly help for those who are hopeful that the bird is still in the area.
 
 Cheers,
 
 風　Swift as the wind
 林　Quiet as the forest
 火　Conquer like the fire
 山　Steady as the mountain
 Sun Tzu  The Art of War
 
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 (= '.'=)
 () _ () 
 Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 
 
 Andrew Baksh
 www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
 
 On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Curt McDermott tele-...@hotmail.com wrote:
 
  As of 5:45PM on Wednesday, 2/11, there were NO reported sightings of 
 the bird for the day, despite the efforts of over 100 potential observers.
 
  If I should learn of any today, I will post immediately.
 
 Good Birding,
   Curt McDermott
 
 
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