Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Folks:
Down my way (Gainesville, FL) during the doldrums of June (intense heat and
humidity), we have the June Challenge. A friendly county-only competition to
observe the most species. Everyone shares their finds. It is both fun and
interesting and it gets all who participate out in the field visiting our
regular hot spots and less frequently visited locations. I believe June
Challenges occur in counties all over the US, perhaps overseas as well.
If anyone is interested for the future, I can send along the official rules as
used in Florida.
cheers,
Peter
(temporarily in Orient, NY)
> On Jun 26, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Naomi Lloyd wrote:
>
> This is my time of year for birdwatching rather than birding.
>
> Naomi Lloyd
>
>
>
> On June 26, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Andrew Baksh wrote:
>
>
>
> There is something quite serene and enjoyable during those slow periods in
> getting to know your common birds. Robins are still cool birds for me;
> especially those spotted ones ;-)
>
> The reality is, we live in the age of instant gratification. We want our
> birds now! Fast and lined up for us.
>
>
> "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule
> of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~
> Frederick Douglass
>
> 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
>
>> (\__/)
>> (= '.'=)
>> (") _ (")
>> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
>
> Andrew Baksh
> www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
>
>> On Jun 26, 2019, at 2:26 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:
>>
>> Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days.
>> Yin/Yang
>>
>> Also its important to have LOOB
>>
>> ( life outside of birding )
>>
>> Arie Gilbert
>> No. Babylon NY
>> www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com
>> www.QCBirdClub.org
>>
>> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>>
>> Original message
>> From: Shaibal Mitra
>> Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)"
>> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
>>
>> Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems
>> that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From
>> independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing
>> disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?"
>> "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this
>> place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the
>> context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous
>> big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently.
>>
>> My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement
>> has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad
>> it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago,
>> and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and
>> were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of
>> forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the
>> excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island
>> ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years
>> of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that
>> a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated
>> Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and
>> lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover
>> sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for
>> granted on the CBCs.
>>
>> On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off
>> sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable
>> number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that
>> species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and
>> Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then
>> their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful
>> birdwatching.
>>
>> Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert
>> Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult,
>> but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April:
>>
>> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294
>>
>> And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at
>> least one other year:
>>
>> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602
>>
>> [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!]
>>
>> A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me
>> to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at
Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Folks:
Down my way (Gainesville, FL) during the doldrums of June (intense heat and
humidity), we have the June Challenge. A friendly county-only competition to
observe the most species. Everyone shares their finds. It is both fun and
interesting and it gets all who participate out in the field visiting our
regular hot spots and less frequently visited locations. I believe June
Challenges occur in counties all over the US, perhaps overseas as well.
If anyone is interested for the future, I can send along the official rules as
used in Florida.
cheers,
Peter
(temporarily in Orient, NY)
> On Jun 26, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Naomi Lloyd wrote:
>
> This is my time of year for birdwatching rather than birding.
>
> Naomi Lloyd
>
>
>
> On June 26, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Andrew Baksh wrote:
>
>
>
> There is something quite serene and enjoyable during those slow periods in
> getting to know your common birds. Robins are still cool birds for me;
> especially those spotted ones ;-)
>
> The reality is, we live in the age of instant gratification. We want our
> birds now! Fast and lined up for us.
>
>
> "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule
> of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~
> Frederick Douglass
>
> 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
>
>> (\__/)
>> (= '.'=)
>> (") _ (")
>> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
>
> Andrew Baksh
> www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
>
>> On Jun 26, 2019, at 2:26 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:
>>
>> Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days.
>> Yin/Yang
>>
>> Also its important to have LOOB
>>
>> ( life outside of birding )
>>
>> Arie Gilbert
>> No. Babylon NY
>> www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com
>> www.QCBirdClub.org
>>
>> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>>
>> Original message
>> From: Shaibal Mitra
>> Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)"
>> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
>>
>> Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems
>> that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From
>> independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing
>> disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?"
>> "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this
>> place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the
>> context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous
>> big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently.
>>
>> My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement
>> has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad
>> it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago,
>> and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and
>> were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of
>> forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the
>> excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island
>> ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years
>> of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that
>> a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated
>> Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and
>> lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover
>> sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for
>> granted on the CBCs.
>>
>> On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off
>> sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable
>> number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that
>> species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and
>> Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then
>> their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful
>> birdwatching.
>>
>> Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert
>> Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult,
>> but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April:
>>
>> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294
>>
>> And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at
>> least one other year:
>>
>> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602
>>
>> [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!]
>>
>> A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me
>> to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at
Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
This is my time of year for birdwatching rather than birding.
Naomi Lloyd
On June 26, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Andrew Baksh wrote:
There is something quite serene and enjoyable during those slow periods in
getting to know your common birds. Robins are still cool birds for me;
especially those spotted ones ;-)
The reality is, we live in the age of instant gratification. We want our birds
now! Fast and lined up for us.
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
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
(\__/)
(= '.'=)
(") _ (")
Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
On Jun 26, 2019, at 2:26 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:
Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days.
Yin/Yang
Also its important to have LOOB
( life outside of birding )
Arie Gilbert
No. Babylon NY
www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com
www.QCBirdClub.org
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
Original message
From: Shaibal Mitra
Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)"
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems that
people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From
independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing disappointment;"
"why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something could show up,
right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used to be good, I
think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of ordinary, local
birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture concerns
expressed by Chris recently.
My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement has
always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad it was
before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago, and yet the
observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and were motivated
enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces as ruthless and
malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the excitement experienced by
Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his
first Great Blue Heron, after ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's
ongoing work that eventually revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th
Century winter record of White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He
documented two more winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered
and deforested landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of
White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs.
On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off
sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable
number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that species
in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson figured
out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their
predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching.
Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert Moses
SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult, but I
did manage to record that none were present by 17 April:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294
And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at least
one other year:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602
[note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!]
A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to
it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my
exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos
and a definitive age):
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401
Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June
abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast.
Shai Mitra
Bay Shore
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
This is my time of year for birdwatching rather than birding.
Naomi Lloyd
On June 26, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Andrew Baksh wrote:
There is something quite serene and enjoyable during those slow periods in
getting to know your common birds. Robins are still cool birds for me;
especially those spotted ones ;-)
The reality is, we live in the age of instant gratification. We want our birds
now! Fast and lined up for us.
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
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
(\__/)
(= '.'=)
(") _ (")
Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
On Jun 26, 2019, at 2:26 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:
Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days.
Yin/Yang
Also its important to have LOOB
( life outside of birding )
Arie Gilbert
No. Babylon NY
www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com
www.QCBirdClub.org
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
Original message
From: Shaibal Mitra
Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)"
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems that
people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From
independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing disappointment;"
"why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something could show up,
right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used to be good, I
think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of ordinary, local
birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture concerns
expressed by Chris recently.
My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement has
always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad it was
before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago, and yet the
observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and were motivated
enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces as ruthless and
malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the excitement experienced by
Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his
first Great Blue Heron, after ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's
ongoing work that eventually revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th
Century winter record of White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He
documented two more winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered
and deforested landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of
White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs.
On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off
sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable
number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that species
in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson figured
out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their
predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching.
Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert Moses
SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult, but I
did manage to record that none were present by 17 April:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294
And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at least
one other year:
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602
[note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!]
A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to
it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my
exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos
and a definitive age):
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401
Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June
abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast.
Shai Mitra
Bay Shore
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http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm
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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/
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Nancy O'Keefe and I (John Laver), drove the Jones Beach West End loop on Sunday morning. We'd read somewhere a dearth of Brown Thrashers for the region. Well, we saw six from the car without really trying. Don't know if that's a lot or not. John Laver & Nancy O'Keefe Manhattan On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:11 AM Shaibal Mitra wrote: > Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems > that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From > independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing > disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" > "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this > place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the > context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more > ominous big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently. > > My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding > excitement has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to > imagine how bad it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented > a century ago, and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching > exciting--and were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in > the face of forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. > Imagine the excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode > Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after > ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually > revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of > White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more > winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested > landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of > White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs. > > On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed > off sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a > countable number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation > for that species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank > and Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better > then their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful > birdwatching. > > Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert > Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring > adult, but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April: > > https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294 > > And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at > least one other year: > > https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602 > > [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!] > > A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me > to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before > my exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their > photos and a definitive age): > > https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401 > > Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June > abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > -- *John L* *You could not step twice into the same river.* *Heraclitus of Ephesus* -- 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/ --
Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Nancy O'Keefe and I (John Laver), drove the Jones Beach West End loop on Sunday morning. We'd read somewhere a dearth of Brown Thrashers for the region. Well, we saw six from the car without really trying. Don't know if that's a lot or not. John Laver & Nancy O'Keefe Manhattan On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:11 AM Shaibal Mitra wrote: > Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems > that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From > independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing > disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" > "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this > place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the > context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more > ominous big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently. > > My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding > excitement has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to > imagine how bad it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented > a century ago, and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching > exciting--and were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in > the face of forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. > Imagine the excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode > Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after > ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually > revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of > White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more > winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested > landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of > White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs. > > On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed > off sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a > countable number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation > for that species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank > and Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better > then their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful > birdwatching. > > Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert > Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring > adult, but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April: > > https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294 > > And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at > least one other year: > > https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602 > > [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!] > > A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me > to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before > my exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their > photos and a definitive age): > > https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401 > > Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June > abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > -- *John L* *You could not step twice into the same river.* *Heraclitus of Ephesus* -- 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/ --
Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
There is something quite serene and enjoyable during those slow periods in
getting to know your common birds. Robins are still cool birds for me;
especially those spotted ones ;-)
The reality is, we live in the age of instant gratification. We want our birds
now! Fast and lined up for us.
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
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
> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (")
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
> On Jun 26, 2019, at 2:26 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:
>
> Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days.
> Yin/Yang
>
> Also its important to have LOOB
>
> ( life outside of birding )
>
> Arie Gilbert
> No. Babylon NY
> www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com
> www.QCBirdClub.org
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>
> Original message
> From: Shaibal Mitra
> Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)"
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
>
> Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems
> that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From
> independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing
> disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something
> could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used
> to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of
> ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture
> concerns expressed by Chris recently.
>
> My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement
> has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad
> it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago,
> and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and
> were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces
> as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the
> excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island
> ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years
> of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that a
> unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated
> Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and
> lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover
> sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for
> granted on the CBCs.
>
> On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off
> sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable
> number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that
> species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson
> figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their
> predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching.
>
> Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert
> Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult,
> but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April:
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294
>
> And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at
> least one other year:
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602
>
> [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!]
>
> A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to
> it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my
> exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos
> and a definitive age):
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401
>
> Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June
> abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast.
>
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
> --
>
> NYSbirds-L List Info:
> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm
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> 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/
>
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>
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
There is something quite serene and enjoyable during those slow periods in
getting to know your common birds. Robins are still cool birds for me;
especially those spotted ones ;-)
The reality is, we live in the age of instant gratification. We want our birds
now! Fast and lined up for us.
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick
Douglass
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
> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (")
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device!
Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
> On Jun 26, 2019, at 2:26 PM, ArieGilbert wrote:
>
> Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days.
> Yin/Yang
>
> Also its important to have LOOB
>
> ( life outside of birding )
>
> Arie Gilbert
> No. Babylon NY
> www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com
> www.QCBirdClub.org
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>
> Original message
> From: Shaibal Mitra
> Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)"
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
>
> Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems
> that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From
> independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing
> disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something
> could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used
> to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of
> ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture
> concerns expressed by Chris recently.
>
> My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement
> has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad
> it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago,
> and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and
> were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces
> as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the
> excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island
> ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years
> of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that a
> unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated
> Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and
> lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover
> sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for
> granted on the CBCs.
>
> On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off
> sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable
> number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that
> species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson
> figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their
> predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching.
>
> Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert
> Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult,
> but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April:
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294
>
> And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at
> least one other year:
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602
>
> [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!]
>
> A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to
> it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my
> exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos
> and a definitive age):
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401
>
> Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June
> abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast.
>
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
> --
>
> 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 List Info:
> Welcome and Basics
> Rules and Information
> Subscribe,
Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days. Yin/Yang Also its important to have LOOB ( life outside of birding ) Arie Gilbert No. Babylon NY www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com www.QCBirdClub.org Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message From: Shaibal Mitra Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00) To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)" Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently. My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago, and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs. On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching. Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult, but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294 And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at least one other year: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602 [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!] A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos and a definitive age): https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401 Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast. Shai Mitra Bay Shore -- 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 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/ --
Re: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching
Re doldrums: one cannot appreciate a great day of birding without bad days. Yin/Yang Also its important to have LOOB ( life outside of birding ) Arie Gilbert No. Babylon NY www.PowerBirder.Blogspot.com www.QCBirdClub.org Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message From: Shaibal Mitra Date: 6/26/19 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00) To: "NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu)" Subject: [nysbirds-l] Purposeful Birdwatching Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently. My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago, and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs. On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching. Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult, but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294 And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at least one other year: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602 [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!] A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos and a definitive age): https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401 Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast. Shai Mitra Bay Shore -- 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 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] Purposeful Birdwatching
Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently. My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago, and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs. On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching. Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult, but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294 And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at least one other year: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602 [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!] A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos and a definitive age): https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401 Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast. Shai Mitra Bay Shore -- 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] Purposeful Birdwatching
Judging from many, many recent conversations with fellow birders, it seems that people are having a tough time of it during these June doldrums. From independent sources over the past week, I've heard: "crushing disappointment;" "why is it so bad?;" "is it going to get better?" "something could show up, right?;" "didn't birding used to be good?;" "this place used to be good, I think" and more. And this has mostly been in the context of ordinary, local birding, not directly related to the more ominous big-picture concerns expressed by Chris recently. My usual response, admittedly slightly sadistic, is that birding excitement has always been relative. We modern observers can't begin to imagine how bad it was before the legal protection of birds was implemented a century ago, and yet the observers of that time still found birdwatching exciting--and were motivated enough to achieve protective legislation in the face of forces as ruthless and malevolent as those confronting us now. Imagine the excitement experienced by Harry Hathaway, the father of Rhode Island ornithology, when in 1894 he saw his first Great Blue Heron, after ten years of field work! It was Hathaway's ongoing work that eventually revealed that a unique, seemingly outlying, 19th Century winter record of White-throated Sparrow in RI was not an accident. He documented two more winter records and lived long enough to see RI's plundered and deforested landscape recover sufficiently to harbor the lisping flocks of White-throats we now take for granted on the CBCs. On Long Island, Ludlow Griscom scolded over-exuberant birders who tossed off sight records of Ring-billed Gulls in winter and summer, citing a countable number of such specimens as the gold standard of documentation for that species in that context. Chafing at this discipline, Cruickshank and Peterson figured out how to find and identify Ring-billed Gulls better then their predecessors--proving again the eternal pleasure of purposeful birdwatching. Yesterday I saw my first adult Ring-billed Gulls of the season at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk County. I'm not sure of the date for my last spring adult, but I did manage to record that none were present by 17 April: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55097294 And I am able to pull up the date of the late-June return of adults in at least one other year: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S17210602 [note to eBird: please enable sorting of checklists by Julian date!] A little sleuthing subsequently revealed that two of my colleagues beat me to it this year, documenting an adult Ring-bill at Cupsogue two days before my exciting find (though it required some follow-up work to obtain their photos and a definitive age): https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S57623401 Hypothesis: Ring-billed Gulls whose breeding efforts fail after early June abandon the colonies and disperse, some reaching the coast. Shai Mitra Bay Shore -- 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] Manhattan & N.Y. County summer birds, etc.
New York County, which includes Manhattan, N.Y. City -since starting of summer- Pied-billed Grebe, & Black Vulture (the vultures are semi-regular if looked for, esp. soaring over & near the Palisades cliffs across the Hudson river, over N.J. air-space, but observable from the near-Hudson shore or some vistas in n.-w. N.Y. City; this is generally more likely seen from points north of the G.Washington Bridge - & from Inwood Hill Park, Sunday, 6/23. A Wood Duck was also lingering at this park into at least Tues. 6/25. Interesting very recent observations of potentially-nesting species at that park include Rose-breasted Grosbeak & in the vicinity as well as within that park proper, 2 warbler spp. - Yellow, & Common Yellowthroat. - Some of the potentially-nesting spp. recently seen & reported by A. Barry; & N. O’Reilly is also among the I.H.Park obs.; I’ve also been in that park, seeing some of the above in this week.) Black Skimmers continued to be seen, various points mainly off the shore of Manhattan, also possible in parks such as Central Park, & may be more likely seen at dawn or dusk hours. Recent sightings include two seen from the Lower East Side / East Village, Friday, 6/21 (var. obs., incl. the sighting from L. Beausoleil, obs.) Ruby-throated Hummingbird (apparent female), Central Park by the shore of The Lake in recent days; N.B. this species has nested in Manhattan in recent years. (N. Baker, most recently, & at least a few other recent obs.) A Red-breasted Nuthatch appeared in the West (Greenwich) Village, Sunday, 6/23. An somewhat uncommonly early-summer date, for this species on Manhattan. (T. Olson, obs.) Purple Martin (male) - seen at Randall’s Island, Sat. 6/22. (L. Goggin, obs.) Also noted there on that day were some Atlantic Brant, which could be summering locally; both of these, & multiple other spp. seen fairly recently by others as well. Another larger island within New York County (N.Y. City), and with public acess, Governors Island, has Common Terns, Killdeer, & a variety of additional nesting & some visiting species. E. Towhee has nested in Central Park again, a great success & in a site that thousands pass daily in warmer weather, yet virtually no birders check. So far, it appears there may be 2 young… Ongoing sightings of White-throated Sparrows, now summering in various locations on Manhattan island, some of them in Central Park as is typical (of a relative few). Blackpoll Warbler (singing male), in Central Park near Bow Bridge, Friday, 6/21. (M.B. Kooper, obs.) Fewer warblers are typically found in Central Park as summer begins, yet there may be at any point in June & early July some, which could be either extremely “late” stragglers, unlikely to reach a breeding area, &/or simply individuals that are not going to breed in a given season, & linger until they choose to move on, perhaps southwards as more migrants reappear in the so-called “fall” migrations which are in fact starting almost right after each summer solstice occurs in the northern hemisphere. There are also a very few warbler spp. which may at least attempt to breed in Central Park, & the most-regularly encountered of these seems to be Common Yellowthroat. A variety of warblers may appear hereabouts in esp. early to mid July, and some may be in southbound-migration mode - these could include such warblers as Louisiana Waterthrush, as well as N. Waterthrush, Yellow Warbler (a regular nester in N.Y. City), Black-and-white, and some others. Also rarer warblers for the city parks such as Kentucky may make appearances in the city parks at almost any time in summer months, and be less-detected than in spring, as generally fewer observers are swarming the migration hotspots in early summer. Worm-eating Warbler (which still nests within just a few miles of N.Y. City), may also appear in July including occasionally rather early in that month. --- "Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” - Terry Tempest Williams (contemporary activist, and author of many books) good summer's birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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] Manhattan & N.Y. County summer birds, etc.
New York County, which includes Manhattan, N.Y. City -since starting of summer- Pied-billed Grebe, & Black Vulture (the vultures are semi-regular if looked for, esp. soaring over & near the Palisades cliffs across the Hudson river, over N.J. air-space, but observable from the near-Hudson shore or some vistas in n.-w. N.Y. City; this is generally more likely seen from points north of the G.Washington Bridge - & from Inwood Hill Park, Sunday, 6/23. A Wood Duck was also lingering at this park into at least Tues. 6/25. Interesting very recent observations of potentially-nesting species at that park include Rose-breasted Grosbeak & in the vicinity as well as within that park proper, 2 warbler spp. - Yellow, & Common Yellowthroat. - Some of the potentially-nesting spp. recently seen & reported by A. Barry; & N. O’Reilly is also among the I.H.Park obs.; I’ve also been in that park, seeing some of the above in this week.) Black Skimmers continued to be seen, various points mainly off the shore of Manhattan, also possible in parks such as Central Park, & may be more likely seen at dawn or dusk hours. Recent sightings include two seen from the Lower East Side / East Village, Friday, 6/21 (var. obs., incl. the sighting from L. Beausoleil, obs.) Ruby-throated Hummingbird (apparent female), Central Park by the shore of The Lake in recent days; N.B. this species has nested in Manhattan in recent years. (N. Baker, most recently, & at least a few other recent obs.) A Red-breasted Nuthatch appeared in the West (Greenwich) Village, Sunday, 6/23. An somewhat uncommonly early-summer date, for this species on Manhattan. (T. Olson, obs.) Purple Martin (male) - seen at Randall’s Island, Sat. 6/22. (L. Goggin, obs.) Also noted there on that day were some Atlantic Brant, which could be summering locally; both of these, & multiple other spp. seen fairly recently by others as well. Another larger island within New York County (N.Y. City), and with public acess, Governors Island, has Common Terns, Killdeer, & a variety of additional nesting & some visiting species. E. Towhee has nested in Central Park again, a great success & in a site that thousands pass daily in warmer weather, yet virtually no birders check. So far, it appears there may be 2 young… Ongoing sightings of White-throated Sparrows, now summering in various locations on Manhattan island, some of them in Central Park as is typical (of a relative few). Blackpoll Warbler (singing male), in Central Park near Bow Bridge, Friday, 6/21. (M.B. Kooper, obs.) Fewer warblers are typically found in Central Park as summer begins, yet there may be at any point in June & early July some, which could be either extremely “late” stragglers, unlikely to reach a breeding area, &/or simply individuals that are not going to breed in a given season, & linger until they choose to move on, perhaps southwards as more migrants reappear in the so-called “fall” migrations which are in fact starting almost right after each summer solstice occurs in the northern hemisphere. There are also a very few warbler spp. which may at least attempt to breed in Central Park, & the most-regularly encountered of these seems to be Common Yellowthroat. A variety of warblers may appear hereabouts in esp. early to mid July, and some may be in southbound-migration mode - these could include such warblers as Louisiana Waterthrush, as well as N. Waterthrush, Yellow Warbler (a regular nester in N.Y. City), Black-and-white, and some others. Also rarer warblers for the city parks such as Kentucky may make appearances in the city parks at almost any time in summer months, and be less-detected than in spring, as generally fewer observers are swarming the migration hotspots in early summer. Worm-eating Warbler (which still nests within just a few miles of N.Y. City), may also appear in July including occasionally rather early in that month. --- "Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” - Terry Tempest Williams (contemporary activist, and author of many books) good summer's birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- 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/ --
