Re: [nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon - NO

[Philip Ribolow]

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Went to CBM and left at 4:20. Gyr not seen there today.

Regards,

Phil


From: Anders Peltomaa [mailto:anders.pelto...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 07:02 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu ; Phil Jeffries 

Subject: [nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon - NO

Hi all,
At sunrise today Rich Fried and I were on the dock at Cedar Beach Marina with 
hopes to see the Gyrfalcon that was found on Wednesday and seen yesterday 
morning. After a couple of hours and with 3 other birders also looking for it 
we decided to go and check other locations.

When we arrived at Gilgo the fog had rolled in and it was so thick that we 
could barely discern the gates and perhaps half of the parking lot. You 
couldn't even tell that there was a dock and water beyond. So we turned around 
and drove back. Cedar Beach was also socked in fog by then so we continued to 
Captree, which was virtually void of birds. Next we stopped at the Coast Guard 
Station, where the sand bar was occupied by a large flock of Brant, regular 
gulls and a few shorebirds.

At West End II we found a large flock of Snow Buntings (120+) that was moving 
between the swale and parking lot.

After another stop at Cedar Beach Marina we made our last stop at Point 
Lookout, where we enjoyed watching one male Harlequin Duck, 4 Purple Sandpiper, 
a handful of Sanderling and cirka one hundred Dunlin on one of the breakwaters. 
Common and Red-throated Loons were on the water, small flocks of Black Scoters 
flew west to east, and further out a dozen or so Northern Gannets were feeding.

good birding on an unusually warm December spring-like day,

Anders Peltomaa
Manhattan





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[nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon - NO

[Anders Peltomaa]

Hi all,
At sunrise today Rich Fried and I were on the dock at Cedar Beach Marina
with hopes to see the Gyrfalcon that was found on Wednesday and seen
yesterday morning. After a couple of hours and with 3 other birders also
looking for it we decided to go and check other locations.

When we arrived at Gilgo the fog had rolled in and it was so thick that we
could barely discern the gates and perhaps half of the parking lot. You
couldn't even tell that there was a dock and water beyond. So we turned
around and drove back. Cedar Beach was also socked in fog by then so we
continued to Captree, which was virtually void of birds. Next we stopped at
the Coast Guard Station, where the sand bar was occupied by a large flock
of Brant, regular gulls and a few shorebirds.

At West End II we found a large flock of Snow Buntings (120+) that was
moving between the swale and parking lot.

After another stop at Cedar Beach Marina we made our last stop at Point
Lookout, where we enjoyed watching one male Harlequin Duck, 4 Purple
Sandpiper, a handful of Sanderling and cirka one hundred Dunlin on one of
the breakwaters. Common and Red-throated Loons were on the water, small
flocks of Black Scoters flew west to east, and further out a dozen or so
Northern Gannets were feeding.

good birding on an unusually warm December spring-like day,

Anders Peltomaa
Manhattan

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RE: [nysbirds-l] More Gulls

[Steve Walter]

I was unlucky on Friday the 13th with other obligations. And then the great 
disappearing act of the 14th. I vowed to go to the ends of the earth to get 
Franklin's pictures. Fortunately, it won't come to that. I visited a flooded 
agricultural field in Cutler, Florida today, where up to 6 were present. 
According to a resident I asked, Franklin's are not found in Florida most 
years. So it would seem a direct correlation to the eastward migration jog. 
Also present were at least 200 Lesser Black-backed Gulls -- another answer to 
where did they all go. Also a Bonaparte's walking around the field. Strange to 
see one like that.
Steve WalterSunrise, FL (temporarily)


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 Original message 
From: Shaibal Mitra  
Date: 12/09/2015  1:19 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu 
Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] More Gulls 

Very belatedly, I would like to offer some thoughts about the astonishing 
Franklin's Gull flight of 13 November 2015, partly inspired by Bobby's 
intriguing post.

Now several weeks after the flight, summaries and interpretations have been 
prepared and digested:

http://birdcast.info/forecast/migration-story-mid-latitude-cyclones-plains-temperature-anomalies-edmund-fitzgerald-and-franklins-gulls-part-2/

In particular, parallels have been drawn between this year's incursion and a 
similar one in November 1998:

https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/nab/v053n01/p00012-p00019.pdf

I'd like to add two ideas to the discussion: (1) a suggestion to the weather 
history enthusiasts in our community to examine 27 October 2010 as another 
potential example of a similar phenomenon; and (2) some questions about how and 
why the birds ended up where they did.

(1) On 27 October 2010, Ken Feustel found a hatching-year Franklin's Gull at 
Robert Moses SP, Suffolk County, Long Island. A number of us raced there very 
quickly, hoping to see this locally very rare species, but narrowly missed it. 
Broadening our search, we found numbers of Lesser Black-backed Gulls  (a 
parallel to Bobby's experience, and also our own, this year), but almost 
absurdly, Patricia Lindsay found a different, adult, Franklin's Gull at nearby 
Captree SP. Although eBird shows only one other Franklin's Gull along the 
northeast/mid-Atlantic coast during Oct-Dec 2010, that bird was also found on 
precisely the same date, 27 Oct, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It seems 
very likely that others passed undetected that day. The weather-map aficionados 
will probably remember this period, because in the days immediately following, 
a remarkable series of vagrants appeared on Long Island, including Common 
Ground-Dove and  multiple Cave Swallows--which were associated with this year's 
system also.

(2) On 13 Nov 2015, Pat and I were stranded on Block Island, where all ferries 
were canceled due to the high winds. Birding was tough that day, in contrast to 
the much blander previous day, when we and others had conducted our annual 
CBC-style November count on the island. A very striking contrast between the 
two days involved the overall numbers of gulls. On the windy 13th, we found 
vastly more large gulls on the island than had been present a day before, 
include 7 (vs. 2) Lesser Black-backs. We also found 4 Franklin's Gulls, in 
keeping with the amazing theme of that day. Clearly, the large gulls were 
aggregated there because the winds discouraged them from their normal feeding 
patterns, whereas the Franklin's Gulls were there because they had traveled 
from somewhere far to the west. Just one day later, almost no Franklin's Gulls 
could be found. Perhaps they fled south, or maybe they went out to sea (there 
is an over-representation of pelagic records among northeastern records of 
Franklin's Gulls), or maybe they did something else that reduced detection (one 
of the wind maps from the preceding days showed air flows at 1000 meters, so 
maybe by the 14th, all those Franklin's Gulls were just gazing down at us from 
vast heights!). And the Lesser Black-backed Gulls had melted away as well. 
Isn't it odd that these two utterly contrasting species have correlated 
November occurrence in our area?

My point is that there's a lot we don't know about why it seemed as though one 
could just drive up to any spot on the east coast on 13 Nov and see a 
Franklin's Gull. They had to get here, and then they had to behave in a way 
that allowed us to detect them. Given that they were capable of hunkering down 
under high winds on the 13th, why didn't they simply hunker down in Iowa (or 
wherever they came from) in the first place? In the same vein, were the Common 
Ground-Doves forcibly ripped from the ground and blown multi-hundreds of 
kilometers, or were they, in some sense, willing to go along?

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore



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Re: [nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon ?

[Arie Gilbert]

Jack et al,

After Doug's report yesterday , we arrived ~ 9:30 to be told that the 
bird had just flown. Many people were on station at Cedar beach; I was 
there until 2:30 but the bird had not returned.  it is a BIG area. Most 
likely the bird is the same one that has been in this area before, and 
will return to one or more favored perches.


The morning maybe the best time, today not withstanding due to the fog,

so... you may get it right away, or you may have to wait a long time, or 
you may dip, like I did yesterday.


Arie Gilbert
North Babylon, NY

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On 12/11/2015 7:54 AM, Jack Rothman wrote:

Any reports, positive or negative, about the Gyrfalcon near Cedar Beach, would 
be appreciated, before we schlepp out from the Bronx.
Jack Rothman
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Re:[nysbirds-l] [ebirdsnyc] Gyrfalcon ?

[Anders Peltomaa]

The Gyrfalcon has not been seen at Cedar Beach Marina so far this morning.

Anders Peltomaa

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Seen this morning. Frequenting the northern slope of the Lefrak Center. 

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Re: [nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon ?

[Arie Gilbert]

Jack et al,

After Doug's report yesterday , we arrived ~ 9:30 to be told that the 
bird had just flown. Many people were on station at Cedar beach; I was 
there until 2:30 but the bird had not returned.  it is a BIG area. Most 
likely the bird is the same one that has been in this area before, and 
will return to one or more favored perches.


The morning maybe the best time, today not withstanding due to the fog,

so... you may get it right away, or you may have to wait a long time, or 
you may dip, like I did yesterday.


Arie Gilbert
North Babylon, NY

WWW.Powerbirder.blogspot.com
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Re:[nysbirds-l] [ebirdsnyc] Gyrfalcon ?

[Anders Peltomaa]

The Gyrfalcon has not been seen at Cedar Beach Marina so far this morning.

Anders Peltomaa

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[Anders Peltomaa]

Hi all,
At sunrise today Rich Fried and I were on the dock at Cedar Beach Marina
with hopes to see the Gyrfalcon that was found on Wednesday and seen
yesterday morning. After a couple of hours and with 3 other birders also
looking for it we decided to go and check other locations.

When we arrived at Gilgo the fog had rolled in and it was so thick that we
could barely discern the gates and perhaps half of the parking lot. You
couldn't even tell that there was a dock and water beyond. So we turned
around and drove back. Cedar Beach was also socked in fog by then so we
continued to Captree, which was virtually void of birds. Next we stopped at
the Coast Guard Station, where the sand bar was occupied by a large flock
of Brant, regular gulls and a few shorebirds.

At West End II we found a large flock of Snow Buntings (120+) that was
moving between the swale and parking lot.

After another stop at Cedar Beach Marina we made our last stop at Point
Lookout, where we enjoyed watching one male Harlequin Duck, 4 Purple
Sandpiper, a handful of Sanderling and cirka one hundred Dunlin on one of
the breakwaters. Common and Red-throated Loons were on the water, small
flocks of Black Scoters flew west to east, and further out a dozen or so
Northern Gannets were feeding.

good birding on an unusually warm December spring-like day,

Anders Peltomaa
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RE: [nysbirds-l] More Gulls

[Steve Walter]

I was unlucky on Friday the 13th with other obligations. And then the great 
disappearing act of the 14th. I vowed to go to the ends of the earth to get 
Franklin's pictures. Fortunately, it won't come to that. I visited a flooded 
agricultural field in Cutler, Florida today, where up to 6 were present. 
According to a resident I asked, Franklin's are not found in Florida most 
years. So it would seem a direct correlation to the eastward migration jog. 
Also present were at least 200 Lesser Black-backed Gulls -- another answer to 
where did they all go. Also a Bonaparte's walking around the field. Strange to 
see one like that.
Steve WalterSunrise, FL (temporarily)


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 Original message 
From: Shaibal Mitra  
Date: 12/09/2015  1:19 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu 
Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] More Gulls 

Very belatedly, I would like to offer some thoughts about the astonishing 
Franklin's Gull flight of 13 November 2015, partly inspired by Bobby's 
intriguing post.

Now several weeks after the flight, summaries and interpretations have been 
prepared and digested:

http://birdcast.info/forecast/migration-story-mid-latitude-cyclones-plains-temperature-anomalies-edmund-fitzgerald-and-franklins-gulls-part-2/

In particular, parallels have been drawn between this year's incursion and a 
similar one in November 1998:

https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/nab/v053n01/p00012-p00019.pdf

I'd like to add two ideas to the discussion: (1) a suggestion to the weather 
history enthusiasts in our community to examine 27 October 2010 as another 
potential example of a similar phenomenon; and (2) some questions about how and 
why the birds ended up where they did.

(1) On 27 October 2010, Ken Feustel found a hatching-year Franklin's Gull at 
Robert Moses SP, Suffolk County, Long Island. A number of us raced there very 
quickly, hoping to see this locally very rare species, but narrowly missed it. 
Broadening our search, we found numbers of Lesser Black-backed Gulls  (a 
parallel to Bobby's experience, and also our own, this year), but almost 
absurdly, Patricia Lindsay found a different, adult, Franklin's Gull at nearby 
Captree SP. Although eBird shows only one other Franklin's Gull along the 
northeast/mid-Atlantic coast during Oct-Dec 2010, that bird was also found on 
precisely the same date, 27 Oct, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It seems 
very likely that others passed undetected that day. The weather-map aficionados 
will probably remember this period, because in the days immediately following, 
a remarkable series of vagrants appeared on Long Island, including Common 
Ground-Dove and  multiple Cave Swallows--which were associated with this year's 
system also.

(2) On 13 Nov 2015, Pat and I were stranded on Block Island, where all ferries 
were canceled due to the high winds. Birding was tough that day, in contrast to 
the much blander previous day, when we and others had conducted our annual 
CBC-style November count on the island. A very striking contrast between the 
two days involved the overall numbers of gulls. On the windy 13th, we found 
vastly more large gulls on the island than had been present a day before, 
include 7 (vs. 2) Lesser Black-backs. We also found 4 Franklin's Gulls, in 
keeping with the amazing theme of that day. Clearly, the large gulls were 
aggregated there because the winds discouraged them from their normal feeding 
patterns, whereas the Franklin's Gulls were there because they had traveled 
from somewhere far to the west. Just one day later, almost no Franklin's Gulls 
could be found. Perhaps they fled south, or maybe they went out to sea (there 
is an over-representation of pelagic records among northeastern records of 
Franklin's Gulls), or maybe they did something else that reduced detection (one 
of the wind maps from the preceding days showed air flows at 1000 meters, so 
maybe by the 14th, all those Franklin's Gulls were just gazing down at us from 
vast heights!). And the Lesser Black-backed Gulls had melted away as well. 
Isn't it odd that these two utterly contrasting species have correlated 
November occurrence in our area?

My point is that there's a lot we don't know about why it seemed as though one 
could just drive up to any spot on the east coast on 13 Nov and see a 
Franklin's Gull. They had to get here, and then they had to behave in a way 
that allowed us to detect them. Given that they were capable of hunkering down 
under high winds on the 13th, why didn't they simply hunker down in Iowa (or 
wherever they came from) in the first place? In the same vein, were the Common 
Ground-Doves forcibly ripped from the ground and blown multi-hundreds of 
kilometers, or were they, in some sense, willing to go along?

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore



From: bounce-119894441-3714...@list.cornell.edu 

Re: [nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon - NO

[Philip Ribolow]

Classification: External Communication

Went to CBM and left at 4:20. Gyr not seen there today.

Regards,

Phil


From: Anders Peltomaa [mailto:anders.pelto...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 07:02 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu ; Phil Jeffries 

Subject: [nysbirds-l] Gyrfalcon - NO

Hi all,
At sunrise today Rich Fried and I were on the dock at Cedar Beach Marina with 
hopes to see the Gyrfalcon that was found on Wednesday and seen yesterday 
morning. After a couple of hours and with 3 other birders also looking for it 
we decided to go and check other locations.

When we arrived at Gilgo the fog had rolled in and it was so thick that we 
could barely discern the gates and perhaps half of the parking lot. You 
couldn't even tell that there was a dock and water beyond. So we turned around 
and drove back. Cedar Beach was also socked in fog by then so we continued to 
Captree, which was virtually void of birds. Next we stopped at the Coast Guard 
Station, where the sand bar was occupied by a large flock of Brant, regular 
gulls and a few shorebirds.

At West End II we found a large flock of Snow Buntings (120+) that was moving 
between the swale and parking lot.

After another stop at Cedar Beach Marina we made our last stop at Point 
Lookout, where we enjoyed watching one male Harlequin Duck, 4 Purple Sandpiper, 
a handful of Sanderling and cirka one hundred Dunlin on one of the breakwaters. 
Common and Red-throated Loons were on the water, small flocks of Black Scoters 
flew west to east, and further out a dozen or so Northern Gannets were feeding.

good birding on an unusually warm December spring-like day,

Anders Peltomaa
Manhattan





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