[nysbirds-l] Hempstead Lake and Jamaica Bay
I started the day at Hempstead Lake State Park, where I found early migrants were quite active. Barn and Northern Rough-winged Swallows were seen over the south lake within the large Tree Swallow flock. Also spotted both kinglets, a male gnatcatcher, several bright Pine Warblers, and singing Yellow-rumps. Jamaica Bay was very quiet for landbirds in the afternoon, but I managed to find an adult Little Blue Heron, one Great and several Snowy Egrets, and my first New York Laughing Gull of the year. Great Horned and Barn Owl at Hempstead and Jamaica were welcome highlights. Can't wait for some real migration movement! HLSP: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28853846 JBWR: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28864057 Cheers! -Tim H -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Hempstead Lake and Jamaica Bay
I started the day at Hempstead Lake State Park, where I found early migrants were quite active. Barn and Northern Rough-winged Swallows were seen over the south lake within the large Tree Swallow flock. Also spotted both kinglets, a male gnatcatcher, several bright Pine Warblers, and singing Yellow-rumps. Jamaica Bay was very quiet for landbirds in the afternoon, but I managed to find an adult Little Blue Heron, one Great and several Snowy Egrets, and my first New York Laughing Gull of the year. Great Horned and Barn Owl at Hempstead and Jamaica were welcome highlights. Can't wait for some real migration movement! HLSP: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28853846 JBWR: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S28864057 Cheers! -Tim H -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Blue Grosbeak
In my yard in East Quogue now Mike Higgiston Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Blue Grosbeak
In my yard in East Quogue now Mike Higgiston Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] report of kite, & NYC birds 4/10
Sunday, 10 April 2016 This possible S.-t. Kite report was posted to the CT-Birds list, earlier this Sunday. I do not know the observer and have no other details to offer; the report suggests the bird seen was perhaps heading "towards N.Y. City." - http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=1167105 --- At Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y.City), the Louisiana Waterthrush I first reported here 6 days prior is still at the same location as first found, by the Hallett Sanctuary & the Pond in the park's SE sector. By now, at least 25+ birders have been able to see it there, & some have been able to photograph it as well (all without a need to play a single note on any device or in any way harass!) In other warblers, at least 3 other spp. have continued at Central as well, with a few Palm, a slight increase in Pine & just a few Myrtle/ Yellow-rumped Warblers still around in various areas including the n. & s. ends of the park as well as the vicinity of the Ramble. Overall, there seemed to be only the slightest change in variety & numbers, although swallow numbers did appear to be less than in the rain of Saturday (which is not so unusual, often at least in Central, a greater no. & variety of swallows will be seen in inclement weather, rather than lovely sunny clear weather, in the spring migration season). 2 Hooded Mergansers were still at the CP reservoir, and also lingering there are N. Shovelers, Buffleheads, Ruddy Ducks, Gadwall, & many Double-crested Cormorants, plus the usual 3 species of gulls. Ethical birding - & quiet for the sake of the birds to all, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] report of kite, & NYC birds 4/10
Sunday, 10 April 2016 This possible S.-t. Kite report was posted to the CT-Birds list, earlier this Sunday. I do not know the observer and have no other details to offer; the report suggests the bird seen was perhaps heading "towards N.Y. City." - http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=1167105 --- At Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y.City), the Louisiana Waterthrush I first reported here 6 days prior is still at the same location as first found, by the Hallett Sanctuary & the Pond in the park's SE sector. By now, at least 25+ birders have been able to see it there, & some have been able to photograph it as well (all without a need to play a single note on any device or in any way harass!) In other warblers, at least 3 other spp. have continued at Central as well, with a few Palm, a slight increase in Pine & just a few Myrtle/ Yellow-rumped Warblers still around in various areas including the n. & s. ends of the park as well as the vicinity of the Ramble. Overall, there seemed to be only the slightest change in variety & numbers, although swallow numbers did appear to be less than in the rain of Saturday (which is not so unusual, often at least in Central, a greater no. & variety of swallows will be seen in inclement weather, rather than lovely sunny clear weather, in the spring migration season). 2 Hooded Mergansers were still at the CP reservoir, and also lingering there are N. Shovelers, Buffleheads, Ruddy Ducks, Gadwall, & many Double-crested Cormorants, plus the usual 3 species of gulls. Ethical birding - & quiet for the sake of the birds to all, Tom Fiore Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday April 10, 2016
Central Park NYC Sunday April 10, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk from Turtle Pond at 9a.m. until around noon. Bufflehead - male Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult west side of Lake near Balcony Bridge (Bob & Deb after walk) Double-crested Cormorant - 4 flyovers heading north Maintenance Field Turkey Vulture - flyover seen from Laupot Bridge (spotted by Tom Walsh) Bald Eagle - adult or 4th-year heading west seen from Shakespeare Garden Red-tailed Hawk - circling around over the Beresford and Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans) Mourning Dove - several locations Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Pinetum, Shakespeare Garden, Azalea Pond, 2 Turtle Pond incl. female with a black cap SE corner* Northern Flicker - male Pinetum & west side of Pinetum, male Locust Grove, Turtle Pond, 3 Maintenance Field Eastern Phoebe - west side Great Lawn, Turtle Pond Blue Jay - many, one with nesting material at Pinetum Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - Great Lawn, 2 Azalea Pond Tufted Titmouse - feeders, pair Laupot Bridge White-breasted Nuthatch - several locations Brown Creeper - near Boathouse Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 females SE Turtle Pond (Bob before walk) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - male Shakespeare Garden, Oven, also SE Turtle Pond (Bob before walk) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Oven (male with black eyebrow just coming in) Hermit Thrush - 2 south side Turtle Pond Gray Catbird - Evodia Field (wintered) Northern Mockingbird - the Point (Karen Evans) Brown Thrasher - south side Turtle Pond (James) Pine Warbler - male Pinetum (3 on the ground earlier at around 8:15), male singing Shakespeare Garden Eastern Towhee - male Maintenance Field Chipping Sparrow - 2 Pinetum Song Sparrow - Locust Grove & before the walk at Upper Lobe & Pinetum Dark-eyed Junco - Pinetum Red-winged Blackbird - male singing at feeders, male flyover Maintenance Field Rusty Blackbird - male in spring plumage Upper Lobe (Bob & Deb after walk) Brown-headed Cowbird - male Laupot Bridge House Finch American Goldfinch - Turtle Pond, feeders Sandra Critelli reported 2 Eastern Towhees near the Boathouse, an American Coot at the 59th Street Pond, & that the Canada Goose pair near Gapstow Bridge has five eggs in the nest. The Bald Eagle flyover was likely the same bird seen over the Point and tweeted by Adrian Burke (9:58AM), or seen over the Oven and tweeted by Edward Gaillard (10:11AM). Or were there two? For those not on twitter (#birdcp) Ryan Zucker tweeted the Louisiana Waterthrush at the Pond (10:04AM) with another tweet later from Jordan Spindel. *According to Kilham 17% of female Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers have black, not red, crowns (12 of 69 nests studied over a 25-year period). Kilham, L. 1977. Nesting Behavior of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 2, p. 310-324. Wishing for more migrants for us all, Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday April 10, 2016
Central Park NYC Sunday April 10, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk from Turtle Pond at 9a.m. until around noon. Bufflehead - male Turtle Pond Great Egret - Turtle Pond Black-crowned Night-Heron - adult west side of Lake near Balcony Bridge (Bob & Deb after walk) Double-crested Cormorant - 4 flyovers heading north Maintenance Field Turkey Vulture - flyover seen from Laupot Bridge (spotted by Tom Walsh) Bald Eagle - adult or 4th-year heading west seen from Shakespeare Garden Red-tailed Hawk - circling around over the Beresford and Shakespeare Garden (Karen Evans) Mourning Dove - several locations Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Pinetum, Shakespeare Garden, Azalea Pond, 2 Turtle Pond incl. female with a black cap SE corner* Northern Flicker - male Pinetum & west side of Pinetum, male Locust Grove, Turtle Pond, 3 Maintenance Field Eastern Phoebe - west side Great Lawn, Turtle Pond Blue Jay - many, one with nesting material at Pinetum Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Turtle Pond Black-capped Chickadee - Great Lawn, 2 Azalea Pond Tufted Titmouse - feeders, pair Laupot Bridge White-breasted Nuthatch - several locations Brown Creeper - near Boathouse Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2 females SE Turtle Pond (Bob before walk) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - male Shakespeare Garden, Oven, also SE Turtle Pond (Bob before walk) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Oven (male with black eyebrow just coming in) Hermit Thrush - 2 south side Turtle Pond Gray Catbird - Evodia Field (wintered) Northern Mockingbird - the Point (Karen Evans) Brown Thrasher - south side Turtle Pond (James) Pine Warbler - male Pinetum (3 on the ground earlier at around 8:15), male singing Shakespeare Garden Eastern Towhee - male Maintenance Field Chipping Sparrow - 2 Pinetum Song Sparrow - Locust Grove & before the walk at Upper Lobe & Pinetum Dark-eyed Junco - Pinetum Red-winged Blackbird - male singing at feeders, male flyover Maintenance Field Rusty Blackbird - male in spring plumage Upper Lobe (Bob & Deb after walk) Brown-headed Cowbird - male Laupot Bridge House Finch American Goldfinch - Turtle Pond, feeders Sandra Critelli reported 2 Eastern Towhees near the Boathouse, an American Coot at the 59th Street Pond, & that the Canada Goose pair near Gapstow Bridge has five eggs in the nest. The Bald Eagle flyover was likely the same bird seen over the Point and tweeted by Adrian Burke (9:58AM), or seen over the Oven and tweeted by Edward Gaillard (10:11AM). Or were there two? For those not on twitter (#birdcp) Ryan Zucker tweeted the Louisiana Waterthrush at the Pond (10:04AM) with another tweet later from Jordan Spindel. *According to Kilham 17% of female Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers have black, not red, crowns (12 of 69 nests studied over a 25-year period). Kilham, L. 1977. Nesting Behavior of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 89, No. 2, p. 310-324. Wishing for more migrants for us all, Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Upland Sandpiper - YES
The Upland Sandpiper is still hanging out in median east of the Oak Beach entrance, west of the turnaround. It keeps crossing through the brambles in the median, so sometimes it's visible on the eastbound side and sometimes visible on the westbound side. There's no real room to park on the westbound side. Good luck if you try. Brian -- BTW -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Upland Sandpiper - YES
The Upland Sandpiper is still hanging out in median east of the Oak Beach entrance, west of the turnaround. It keeps crossing through the brambles in the median, so sometimes it's visible on the eastbound side and sometimes visible on the westbound side. There's no real room to park on the westbound side. Good luck if you try. Brian -- BTW -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Croton point park
Osprey w nesting material Kestrel (2) Fox sparrow (low road) Ruby crowned kinglet (low road) Killdeer GH owl (4); photographers (22) Screech owl (1) Tree sparrow Blue winged teal -- M+F (croton bay) Red breasted merganser (croton bay) Green winged teal (11) (train station - boat ramp area) L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Croton point park
Osprey w nesting material Kestrel (2) Fox sparrow (low road) Ruby crowned kinglet (low road) Killdeer GH owl (4); photographers (22) Screech owl (1) Tree sparrow Blue winged teal -- M+F (croton bay) Red breasted merganser (croton bay) Green winged teal (11) (train station - boat ramp area) L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Yellow throated Warblers
Being heard and seen now at Connetquot River State Park by Blue Barn in pines. Phil Uruburu Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Yet Warbler Ft Greene Brooklyn
The Yellow-throated Warbler continues in brooklyn's Ft Greene Park just west of the monument at the top of the hill. The bird is favoring some flowering trees just west of the monument by the wide staircase. The YT is following a Sapsucker and raiding its sap holes. Rob Bate Brooklyn -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Upland Sandpiper: yes (Suffolk)
Still present in the median, east of the Oak Beach entrance and before the turnaround, 9:15am Karen Fung and Malcolm Morris NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Upland Sandpiper: yes (Suffolk)
Still present in the median, east of the Oak Beach entrance and before the turnaround, 9:15am Karen Fung and Malcolm Morris NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Brooklyn Yellow-throated Warbler yes
Near monument where reported yesterday, favoring trees downslope to the north. Doug Futuyma, m.o.b. Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Brooklyn Yellow-throated Warbler yes
Near monument where reported yesterday, favoring trees downslope to the north. Doug Futuyma, m.o.b. Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
