[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 24 August 2018
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 24, 2018
* NYNY1808.24
- Birds mentioned
TRINDADE PETREL+
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER+
LEACH'S STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
BRIDLED TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet
Cattle Egret
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Dunlin
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
LARK SPARROW
DICKCISSEL
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
- Transcript
If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report
electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at
http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm
You can also send reports and digital image files via email to
nysarc44(at)nybirds{dot}org.
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or
sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:
Gary Chapin - Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
125 Pine Springs Drive
Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Number: (212) 979-3070
Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 24th
2018 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are pelagic trip results
including TRINDADE PETREL and BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS, BAND-RUMPED
STORM-PETREL, LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER, BRIDLED TERN and
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and such shorebirds as AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, MARBLED
GODWIT, HUDSONIAN GODWIT and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and such passerines as LARK
SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER.
A good week for birds made spectacular by a pelagic trip leaving Brooklyn
Sunday evening. This See Life Paulagics trip aboard the Brooklyn VI with
its excellent crew arrived well out into Hudson Canyon by dawn Monday
morning. A large chum slick bringing birds into the boat paid huge
dividends when a TRINDADE PETREL (treeng-DAH-jee) appeared off the bow and
spent the next few minutes making several close passes by and around the
boat. Excellent photos were obtained. This petrel, also referred to as
TRINDADE PETREL (treen-DAH-dee), in a more anglicized form, is named for
the main island it breeds on off southeastern Brazil. Other species
encountered included 21 BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS, 19 BAND-RUMPED, 23 LEACH'S
and 716 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 6 AUDUBON'S, 43 CORY'S, 39 GREAT and 1
SOOTY SHEARWATER, 2 POMARINE JAEGERS, 2 BRIDLED TERNS and 21 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES plus some exciting sea mammals and fishes. A great trip!
With shorebird season peaking so is the number of shorebirds appearing
locally. A MARBLED GODWIT lingering at Breezy Point at least to Tuesday was
joined by one found out at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes on
Monday and still present Wednesday. And this just in an HUDSONIAN GODWIT
was present this evening just north of the Raunt at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge just in time and hopefully lingering for tomorrow's Shorebird
Festival at the bay. Our initial local AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was spotted
off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End today while the sod
fields out east have so far produced a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER as of Wednesday
and still reported today on the east side of Yaphank Avenue south of Long
Island Expressway exit 67. One or two WHIMBREL were noted at Brooklyn's
Plumb Beach to Tuesday when 8 were on the beach near the Jones Beach West
End jetty. Another was at Cupsogue Wednesday along with a WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER, 2 DUNLIN and a good assortment of species including 17 ROYAL
TERNS.
An early morning seawatch at Cupsogue produced 23 CORY'S SHEARWATERS, 3
NORTHERN GANNETS, [3] PARASITIC JAEGERS and a BLACK TERN. Two CASPIAN TERNS
were noted both at Breezy Point Monday and Plumb Beach Thursday and a
GULL-BILLED TERN was at Plumb Beach Sunday.
A CATTLE EGRET visited Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery from last Sunday at
least to Tuesday and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen again Tuesday in
Connetquot River State Park.
Among the passerines, last Saturday provided a LARK SPARROW at the
volleyball courts at Robert Moses State Park field 2 and later that day two
were seen together at Jones Beach West End just east of the turnaround with
at least one continuing along the roadway there to Tuesday. A few
DICKCISSELS, [...] overhead flybys featured 1 at Oak Beach last Saturday
and 1 in Central Park and 2 at Robert Moses State Park all today.
Highlights among the
[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 24 August 2018
- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 24, 2018
* NYNY1808.24
- Birds mentioned
TRINDADE PETREL+
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER+
LEACH'S STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
BRIDLED TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet
Cattle Egret
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Dunlin
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
LARK SPARROW
DICKCISSEL
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
- Transcript
If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report
electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at
http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm
You can also send reports and digital image files via email to
nysarc44(at)nybirds{dot}org.
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or
sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:
Gary Chapin - Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
125 Pine Springs Drive
Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Number: (212) 979-3070
Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 24th
2018 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are pelagic trip results
including TRINDADE PETREL and BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS, BAND-RUMPED
STORM-PETREL, LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER, BRIDLED TERN and
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and such shorebirds as AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, MARBLED
GODWIT, HUDSONIAN GODWIT and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and such passerines as LARK
SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER.
A good week for birds made spectacular by a pelagic trip leaving Brooklyn
Sunday evening. This See Life Paulagics trip aboard the Brooklyn VI with
its excellent crew arrived well out into Hudson Canyon by dawn Monday
morning. A large chum slick bringing birds into the boat paid huge
dividends when a TRINDADE PETREL (treeng-DAH-jee) appeared off the bow and
spent the next few minutes making several close passes by and around the
boat. Excellent photos were obtained. This petrel, also referred to as
TRINDADE PETREL (treen-DAH-dee), in a more anglicized form, is named for
the main island it breeds on off southeastern Brazil. Other species
encountered included 21 BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS, 19 BAND-RUMPED, 23 LEACH'S
and 716 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 6 AUDUBON'S, 43 CORY'S, 39 GREAT and 1
SOOTY SHEARWATER, 2 POMARINE JAEGERS, 2 BRIDLED TERNS and 21 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES plus some exciting sea mammals and fishes. A great trip!
With shorebird season peaking so is the number of shorebirds appearing
locally. A MARBLED GODWIT lingering at Breezy Point at least to Tuesday was
joined by one found out at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes on
Monday and still present Wednesday. And this just in an HUDSONIAN GODWIT
was present this evening just north of the Raunt at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge just in time and hopefully lingering for tomorrow's Shorebird
Festival at the bay. Our initial local AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was spotted
off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End today while the sod
fields out east have so far produced a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER as of Wednesday
and still reported today on the east side of Yaphank Avenue south of Long
Island Expressway exit 67. One or two WHIMBREL were noted at Brooklyn's
Plumb Beach to Tuesday when 8 were on the beach near the Jones Beach West
End jetty. Another was at Cupsogue Wednesday along with a WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER, 2 DUNLIN and a good assortment of species including 17 ROYAL
TERNS.
An early morning seawatch at Cupsogue produced 23 CORY'S SHEARWATERS, 3
NORTHERN GANNETS, [3] PARASITIC JAEGERS and a BLACK TERN. Two CASPIAN TERNS
were noted both at Breezy Point Monday and Plumb Beach Thursday and a
GULL-BILLED TERN was at Plumb Beach Sunday.
A CATTLE EGRET visited Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery from last Sunday at
least to Tuesday and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen again Tuesday in
Connetquot River State Park.
Among the passerines, last Saturday provided a LARK SPARROW at the
volleyball courts at Robert Moses State Park field 2 and later that day two
were seen together at Jones Beach West End just east of the turnaround with
at least one continuing along the roadway there to Tuesday. A few
DICKCISSELS, [...] overhead flybys featured 1 at Oak Beach last Saturday
and 1 in Central Park and 2 at Robert Moses State Park all today.
Highlights among the
[nysbirds-l] Bryant Park - Returning
With the recent front bringing cooler and drier air - it was time to return to Bryant Park. The waxy leaved begonias are all in full bloom. In the sunshine they glisten like water. An American Redstart has been in the southeast corner for the past two days zip-lining between the London Planes. A Grey Catbird with chunks of feather missing was hiding by the birdbath. The beehives in the northwest corner, named Nectar and Ambrosia, are humming and a Northern Waterthrush was chicken-walking underneath. Happy City Birding, Alan Drogin -- 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] Bryant Park - Returning
With the recent front bringing cooler and drier air - it was time to return to Bryant Park. The waxy leaved begonias are all in full bloom. In the sunshine they glisten like water. An American Redstart has been in the southeast corner for the past two days zip-lining between the London Planes. A Grey Catbird with chunks of feather missing was hiding by the birdbath. The beehives in the northwest corner, named Nectar and Ambrosia, are humming and a Northern Waterthrush was chicken-walking underneath. Happy City Birding, Alan Drogin -- 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] Hudsonian Godwit, East Pond, Jamaica Bay, NWR, Queens (sorry, earlier post had the wrong date-8/24 is correct)
Present at 6:45PM on 8/24/18. Located on the east side of the East pond just north of the Raunt. Marc Passmann Queens -- 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] Hudsonian Godwit, East Pond, Jamaica Bay, NWR, Queens (sorry, earlier post had the wrong date-8/24 is correct)
Present at 6:45PM on 8/24/18. Located on the east side of the East pond just north of the Raunt. Marc Passmann Queens -- 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] Hudsonian Godwit, Jamaica Bay WR East Pond (NYC)
We just relayed a report from finder Marc Passmann, with photo, of a HUDSONIAN GODWIT on the Jamaica Bay WR East Pond, "east side of pond, just north of Raunt:" https://twitter.com/BirdQueens/status/103312278985856 Something for Shorebird Festival-goers to seek tomorrow! David Barrett @BirdQueens on Twitter -- 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] Hudsonian Godwit, Jamaica Bay WR East Pond (NYC)
We just relayed a report from finder Marc Passmann, with photo, of a HUDSONIAN GODWIT on the Jamaica Bay WR East Pond, "east side of pond, just north of Raunt:" https://twitter.com/BirdQueens/status/103312278985856 Something for Shorebird Festival-goers to seek tomorrow! David Barrett @BirdQueens on Twitter -- 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] Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside
Marine Nature Study Area. 24 Aug I spent the morning in the dry part of the facility, ignoring the marsh although a fully grown CLAPPER RAIL was observed from the parking lot. A RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD is hanging around. It appears in the blue salvia along the fence to the west and in the canna lilies off the parking lot. Today it was seen in both spots, but only stayed a few minutes at a time in each place before moving on before returning. Chairs have been conveniently placed at both places, so one can relax while waiting for the hummer to show. The watchers today all had big lenses and most managed satisfactory photos. There were a few YELLOW WARBLERS and AMERICAN REDSTART plus a lone EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE Sy Schiff Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- 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] Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside
Marine Nature Study Area. 24 Aug I spent the morning in the dry part of the facility, ignoring the marsh although a fully grown CLAPPER RAIL was observed from the parking lot. A RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD is hanging around. It appears in the blue salvia along the fence to the west and in the canna lilies off the parking lot. Today it was seen in both spots, but only stayed a few minutes at a time in each place before moving on before returning. Chairs have been conveniently placed at both places, so one can relax while waiting for the hummer to show. The watchers today all had big lenses and most managed satisfactory photos. There were a few YELLOW WARBLERS and AMERICAN REDSTART plus a lone EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE Sy Schiff Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- 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] Central Park NYC - Fri., Aug. 24, 2018 - Dickcissel, Olive-sided Fl., Black-billed Cuckoo & 11 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC Friday, August 24, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights - nothing abundant today, but good diversity on a clear, sunny morning at the North End of Central Park: Dickcissel, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Black-billed Cuckoo, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Eleven Species of Wood Warblers including Magnolia, Blue-winged, and Blackburnian Warblers. Canada Goose flyover flock of 8 Mallard - 8 Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - few Black-billed Cuckoo - opposite Green Bench Chimney Swift - 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Loch Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Blue Heron - flyover Snowy Egret - flyover flock of 3 Belted Kingfisher - female flyover Wildflower Meadow & Loch Red-bellied Woodpecker - pair east side Great Hill Downy Woodpecker - east side Great Hill Northern Flicker - 5 or 6 American Kestrel - 2 chasing dragonflies over the Wildflower Meadow Olive-sided Flycatcher - snag over Loch seen from Wildflower Meadow with Stefan Passlick Empidonax Flycatcher - North Woods (Peter Haskel) Great Crested Flycatcher - North Woods Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 6 Blue Jay - 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (1 Green Bench, 3 Great Hill) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Blockhouse American Robin - common Gray Catbird - a dozen Northern Mockingbird - Conservatory Garden Cedar Waxwing - flock of 20 in Black Cherries at Wildflower Meadow American Goldfinch - 3 wildflower Meadow Song Sparrow - Loch Baltimore Oriole - 7 (east of Blockhouse (Kai from Germany), 6 early a.m. (Bob)) Common Grackle - flyby Wildflower Meadow Ovenbird - near Fort Clinton Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Wildflower Meadow, North Woods) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 Common Yellowthroat - 5 (1 North Woods, 4 early a.m. (Bob)) American Redstart - 15 including 4 adult males Northern Parula - 2 (North woods & Fort Clinton) Magnolia Warbler - 3 Blackburnian Warbler - female North Woods Yellow Warbler - 2 Fort Clinton (Bob - early a.m.) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 Canada Warbler - 4 including adult male near Blockhouse in North Woods Northern Cardinal - 5 DICKCISSEL - female or immature Green Bench -- David Barrett @FastMiler reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers at the Compost Heap puddles via twitter's Manhattan Bird Alert at around 8:45 this morning. Stefan Passlick @StefanPasslick reported a Wilson's Warbler at Sparrow Rock via twitter's Manhattan Bird Alert at around 8:48 this morning. -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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] Central Park NYC - Fri., Aug. 24, 2018 - Dickcissel, Olive-sided Fl., Black-billed Cuckoo & 11 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC Friday, August 24, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights - nothing abundant today, but good diversity on a clear, sunny morning at the North End of Central Park: Dickcissel, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Black-billed Cuckoo, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Eleven Species of Wood Warblers including Magnolia, Blue-winged, and Blackburnian Warblers. Canada Goose flyover flock of 8 Mallard - 8 Harlem Meer Mourning Dove - few Black-billed Cuckoo - opposite Green Bench Chimney Swift - 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Loch Herring Gull - flyover Double-crested Cormorant - flyover Great Blue Heron - flyover Snowy Egret - flyover flock of 3 Belted Kingfisher - female flyover Wildflower Meadow & Loch Red-bellied Woodpecker - pair east side Great Hill Downy Woodpecker - east side Great Hill Northern Flicker - 5 or 6 American Kestrel - 2 chasing dragonflies over the Wildflower Meadow Olive-sided Flycatcher - snag over Loch seen from Wildflower Meadow with Stefan Passlick Empidonax Flycatcher - North Woods (Peter Haskel) Great Crested Flycatcher - North Woods Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 6 Blue Jay - 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 4 (1 Green Bench, 3 Great Hill) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Blockhouse American Robin - common Gray Catbird - a dozen Northern Mockingbird - Conservatory Garden Cedar Waxwing - flock of 20 in Black Cherries at Wildflower Meadow American Goldfinch - 3 wildflower Meadow Song Sparrow - Loch Baltimore Oriole - 7 (east of Blockhouse (Kai from Germany), 6 early a.m. (Bob)) Common Grackle - flyby Wildflower Meadow Ovenbird - near Fort Clinton Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Wildflower Meadow, North Woods) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 Common Yellowthroat - 5 (1 North Woods, 4 early a.m. (Bob)) American Redstart - 15 including 4 adult males Northern Parula - 2 (North woods & Fort Clinton) Magnolia Warbler - 3 Blackburnian Warbler - female North Woods Yellow Warbler - 2 Fort Clinton (Bob - early a.m.) Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 Canada Warbler - 4 including adult male near Blockhouse in North Woods Northern Cardinal - 5 DICKCISSEL - female or immature Green Bench -- David Barrett @FastMiler reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers at the Compost Heap puddles via twitter's Manhattan Bird Alert at around 8:45 this morning. Stefan Passlick @StefanPasslick reported a Wilson's Warbler at Sparrow Rock via twitter's Manhattan Bird Alert at around 8:48 this morning. -- Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- 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] Shawangunk Grasslands All Trails Open
Good Morning All, Ralph Tabor informs me, that as of yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, the Red Trail is now re-opened. For those unfamiliar, this is the trail, where the Henslows Sparrow nested. In short, all trails at the Shawangunk Grasslands are now opened to foot traffic. Please resume your enjoyment of this wonderful area. Ralph thanks everyone foot their cooperation and understanding, while the trail was closed. Good Birding, Curt McDermott -- 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] Shawangunk Grasslands All Trails Open
Good Morning All, Ralph Tabor informs me, that as of yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, the Red Trail is now re-opened. For those unfamiliar, this is the trail, where the Henslows Sparrow nested. In short, all trails at the Shawangunk Grasslands are now opened to foot traffic. Please resume your enjoyment of this wonderful area. Ralph thanks everyone foot their cooperation and understanding, while the trail was closed. Good Birding, Curt McDermott -- 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/ --
