[nysbirds-l] Go east, young man, go east !
Having not seen a Buff-breasted Sandpiper this season on the sod fields, I decided to try yesteryear's best bet for finding migrating,fall "grass-pipers"...before the advent of sod farms ! If you were looking for Black-bellied or A.Golden Plovers, Whimbrel and Pectoral or Buff-breasted Sandpipers you visited the Sagaponack potato fields. Granted, the birds were harder to find as they moved along the ~ 6-8" rows that remained after the potatoes were dug...but they were there, for the finding ! Likewise, if you were after Hudsonian or Marbled Godwits, White-rumped, Baird's, Western and Stilt Sandpipers, you visited both Mecox Bay and Sagg Pond. Today, I did all 3 locations with nice results, albeit, I'm still without a BBSA ! I started at a closed Mecox Bay, finding: 1 Black-bellied, 2 A.Golden, 1 Piping & 5 Semipalmated Plovers; 2 Greater & 2 Lesser Yellowlegs; 1 Willet; 5 Sanderling; 3 Semipalmated & 1 Least Sandpipers; a few of the 3 common gull species; 61 Foster's & 2 Black Terns - one of which, had some kind of huge growth/object attached to one of its toes, although the bird can still fly. While enroute to Sagg Pond, I next approached Mecox from its eastern side, with the only new species being a very entertaining Belted Kingfisher. Similar to Mecox, Sagg has not been opened to the ocean recently, however, the beach and limited sandbars held a good variety of birds: 2 A.Golden, 2 Piping and 3 Semipalmated Plovers; 7 Killdeers; 8 Sanderling; 1 Pectoral Sandpiper; 2 Laughing, ~ 10 Ring-billed, ~ 35 Herring, 4 Lesser Black-backed,* ~ 40 Great Black-backed Gulls; 2 Royal & 1 Foster's Tern and another B.Kingfisher. * 3 adults, still in full breeding plumage, the 4th, a 2nd winter bird. On the whole, I enjoyed the day's outing, but it came at a price. As I was driving around Sagaponack, on familiar lanes with the names of Daniels, Hedges and Parsonage, I found only one potato field in the condition described above. Rather, most of the potato fields that haven't been turned into massive homes, have been switched into corn ! While this conversion might equate into more geese to peruse later in the year, it certainly short-circuits the shorebird season. The last notable bird of the day (seen as I headed home) was a Cooper's Hawk, in flight, over Bridgehampton. Cheers, Bob -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Go east, young man, go east !
Having not seen a Buff-breasted Sandpiper this season on the sod fields, I decided to try yesteryear's best bet for finding migrating,fall "grass-pipers"...before the advent of sod farms ! If you were looking for Black-bellied or A.Golden Plovers, Whimbrel and Pectoral or Buff-breasted Sandpipers you visited the Sagaponack potato fields. Granted, the birds were harder to find as they moved along the ~ 6-8" rows that remained after the potatoes were dug...but they were there, for the finding ! Likewise, if you were after Hudsonian or Marbled Godwits, White-rumped, Baird's, Western and Stilt Sandpipers, you visited both Mecox Bay and Sagg Pond. Today, I did all 3 locations with nice results, albeit, I'm still without a BBSA ! I started at a closed Mecox Bay, finding: 1 Black-bellied, 2 A.Golden, 1 Piping & 5 Semipalmated Plovers; 2 Greater & 2 Lesser Yellowlegs; 1 Willet; 5 Sanderling; 3 Semipalmated & 1 Least Sandpipers; a few of the 3 common gull species; 61 Foster's & 2 Black Terns - one of which, had some kind of huge growth/object attached to one of its toes, although the bird can still fly. While enroute to Sagg Pond, I next approached Mecox from its eastern side, with the only new species being a very entertaining Belted Kingfisher. Similar to Mecox, Sagg has not been opened to the ocean recently, however, the beach and limited sandbars held a good variety of birds: 2 A.Golden, 2 Piping and 3 Semipalmated Plovers; 7 Killdeers; 8 Sanderling; 1 Pectoral Sandpiper; 2 Laughing, ~ 10 Ring-billed, ~ 35 Herring, 4 Lesser Black-backed,* ~ 40 Great Black-backed Gulls; 2 Royal & 1 Foster's Tern and another B.Kingfisher. * 3 adults, still in full breeding plumage, the 4th, a 2nd winter bird. On the whole, I enjoyed the day's outing, but it came at a price. As I was driving around Sagaponack, on familiar lanes with the names of Daniels, Hedges and Parsonage, I found only one potato field in the condition described above. Rather, most of the potato fields that haven't been turned into massive homes, have been switched into corn ! While this conversion might equate into more geese to peruse later in the year, it certainly short-circuits the shorebird season. The last notable bird of the day (seen as I headed home) was a Cooper's Hawk, in flight, over Bridgehampton. Cheers, Bob -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 14 Sep 2017
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/14/2017 * NYBU1709.14 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- [The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website.] LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE WHIMBREL Eared Grebe Great Egret Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/14/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 14, 2017 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 message. Highlights of reports received from late August through mid-September from the Niagara Frontier Region. August 31, a migrant, banded, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at Times Beach Nature Preserve on the Buffalo waterfront. The LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE is an endangered species in New York State. Shorebirds have been another highlight on the Buffalo waterfront. A WHIMBREL has been lingering between the Bell and Seaway Slips along Fuhrmann Blvd since September 5. Other recent shorebirds in this area included a flyby BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. On the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo, RUDDY TURNSTONE and SANDERLINGS. Shorebirds continue in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara County. WHIMBREL on two dates at Lower lake and Burgess Roads in Somerset, and on Ellicott Road, 12 species included juveniles of LONG-B. DOWITCHER, SHORT-B. DOWITCHER and STILT SANDPIPER, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. September 1 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE. Also, EARED GREBES at the plant on several dates. Back on August 23, a juvenile RED KNOT at Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. And at the small wetland at North Bailey and Ridge Lea in Amherst, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, numerous KILLDEER and a GREAT EGRET. A total of 20 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this month at the south end of Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, with a maximum of eight on September 10. Two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Tonawanda on the 2nd. Warbler migration has been modest - reports of 10 to 12 species at some locations. YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER and OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. And WOOD THRUSH and SWAINSON'S THRUSH have been heard during night migration. The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 21. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 14 Sep 2017
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/14/2017 * NYBU1709.14 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- [The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website.] LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE WHIMBREL Eared Grebe Great Egret Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Red Knot Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Common Nighthawk Olive-s. Flycatcher Yellow-b. Flycatcher Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/14/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 14, 2017 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 message. Highlights of reports received from late August through mid-September from the Niagara Frontier Region. August 31, a migrant, banded, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE at Times Beach Nature Preserve on the Buffalo waterfront. The LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE is an endangered species in New York State. Shorebirds have been another highlight on the Buffalo waterfront. A WHIMBREL has been lingering between the Bell and Seaway Slips along Fuhrmann Blvd since September 5. Other recent shorebirds in this area included a flyby BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. On the Bird Island Pier in Buffalo, RUDDY TURNSTONE and SANDERLINGS. Shorebirds continue in the Lake Ontario Plains of Niagara County. WHIMBREL on two dates at Lower lake and Burgess Roads in Somerset, and on Ellicott Road, 12 species included juveniles of LONG-B. DOWITCHER, SHORT-B. DOWITCHER and STILT SANDPIPER, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. September 1 at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE. Also, EARED GREBES at the plant on several dates. Back on August 23, a juvenile RED KNOT at Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County. And at the small wetland at North Bailey and Ridge Lea in Amherst, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, numerous KILLDEER and a GREAT EGRET. A total of 20 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this month at the south end of Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, with a maximum of eight on September 10. Two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over Tonawanda on the 2nd. Warbler migration has been modest - reports of 10 to 12 species at some locations. YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER and OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. And WOOD THRUSH and SWAINSON'S THRUSH have been heard during night migration. The BOS will be hosting the annual New York State Ornithological Association Conference November 10 through 12, in Niagara Falls, New York. Multiple field trips, speakers, researchers, vendors, banquets and hotel discounts are all part of the conference features. Everyone is invited - learn more and register on the BOS website. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 21. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Summary of September 9th Knox-Marcellus / Puddler's Marsh Montezuma Dike Walk
All, We had 22 people walk the dike between Knox-Marcellus / Puddler's Marshes Montezuma on Saturday September 9th. Some folks started on Towpath Road and met up with us on the dike as most walked down from East Road. We also had a nice group of young birders from the SUNY ESF bird club join us. This was a day of great bird diversity as Jay McGowan recorded an amazing 109 species between Towpath Road and the dike. See: http://bit.ly/2eYqdg9 This is a testament to the great bird diversity we enjoy in the Cayuga Basin! Highlights from our walk included a flyover AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER that we first identified by call. The bird circled around a few times and we got great looks at the bird which was a molting adult. We also had BAIRD'S SANDPIPER initially at the beginning of the walk. This bird was in very poor lighting at first and we struggled a bit on the ID. On the way back at the very end of the path on the edge of the water in the channel, we found the bird again in much better lighting and there were actually two of them! We also had a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER closer to Towpath Rd from the dike. We also saw many KILLDEER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, both species of YELLOWLEGS, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. A few of us saw a dowitcher briefly and a few had a STILT SANDPIPER at the beginning. We also got great looks at an immature BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON and 3 NORTHERN HARRIER soaring close and low. There were also 11 SANDHILL CRANES and many species of waterfowl. My list can be found here which does not include Towpath Road http://bit.ly/2vW1LTJ Thanks to all who came along and thanks to the fine folks at Montezuma for supporting these annual shorebird walks. Dave Nicosia -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Summary of September 9th Knox-Marcellus / Puddler's Marsh Montezuma Dike Walk
All, We had 22 people walk the dike between Knox-Marcellus / Puddler's Marshes Montezuma on Saturday September 9th. Some folks started on Towpath Road and met up with us on the dike as most walked down from East Road. We also had a nice group of young birders from the SUNY ESF bird club join us. This was a day of great bird diversity as Jay McGowan recorded an amazing 109 species between Towpath Road and the dike. See: http://bit.ly/2eYqdg9 This is a testament to the great bird diversity we enjoy in the Cayuga Basin! Highlights from our walk included a flyover AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER that we first identified by call. The bird circled around a few times and we got great looks at the bird which was a molting adult. We also had BAIRD'S SANDPIPER initially at the beginning of the walk. This bird was in very poor lighting at first and we struggled a bit on the ID. On the way back at the very end of the path on the edge of the water in the channel, we found the bird again in much better lighting and there were actually two of them! We also had a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER closer to Towpath Rd from the dike. We also saw many KILLDEER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, both species of YELLOWLEGS, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. A few of us saw a dowitcher briefly and a few had a STILT SANDPIPER at the beginning. We also got great looks at an immature BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON and 3 NORTHERN HARRIER soaring close and low. There were also 11 SANDHILL CRANES and many species of waterfowl. My list can be found here which does not include Towpath Road http://bit.ly/2vW1LTJ Thanks to all who came along and thanks to the fine folks at Montezuma for supporting these annual shorebird walks. Dave Nicosia -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Heckscher stpk
.parking lot puddle has pectoral, white rumped spprs viewed from this location at 9.21am on 09-14-2017 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.70011208,-73.16280827 40.70011208,-73.16280827 Arie Gilbert No. Babylon NY www.powerbirder.blogspot www.qcbirdclub.org -- Sent from Loretta in the field -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Heckscher stpk
.parking lot puddle has pectoral, white rumped spprs viewed from this location at 9.21am on 09-14-2017 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.70011208,-73.16280827 40.70011208,-73.16280827 Arie Gilbert No. Babylon NY www.powerbirder.blogspot www.qcbirdclub.org -- Sent from Loretta in the field -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach West End (this morning)
Lots of Red Knots (76 exact count), Oystercatchers, Sanderlings, and a couple of Short Billed Dowitchers on the "Coast Guard" sand bar. The west end area was devoid of songbirds except for one spot that had a handful of Cape May Warblers, lots of female Redstarts and some Pewees. I also saw some Merlin and a Kestrel in the median. Tyler Goldstein Jericho, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
