[nysbirds-l] Osprey (Suffolk)

[Glenn Quinn]

Today, an Osprey has returned to the unusual nest sitelocated at the Local 138 
IOUA Training Property onVictory Blvd in the town of Brookhaven.


 
The nest is on a quite short, flat, tower used forsome kind of heavy equipment 
training and can be seen right from the nearby road.Today, the bird was sitting 
on top of the enormous crane on the property.


 
Cheers!


 
Glenn


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[nysbirds-l] Larchmont Reservoir birds

[Andrew Block]

3/24/20 - Larchmont Reservoir, Weaver St., Larchmont, NY
several Canada Geese (one pair mating)7+ Wood Ducks1 Gadwall2 American Black 
Ducksmany Mallardsseveral Ring-necked Ducks2 Lesser Scaup 2+ Hooded 
Mergansers10+ Ruddy Ducksseveral Rock Pigeons2 Mourning Doves2 Turkey Vultures2 
Red-tailed Hawks4 Red-bellied Woodpeckers (two mated)2 Downy Woodpeckers1 
Northern Flicker1 Eastern Phoebe3 Blue Jays6 American Crows1 Fish Crow2 Tree 
Swallows1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow2+ Black-capped Chickadees1 
White-breasted Nuthatch2 Carolina Wrens2 Golden-crowned Kinglets1 Hermit 
Thrush5 American Robins1 Gray Catbird1 Northern Mockingbird7 Cedar Waxwings3 
House Sparrows1 Yellow-rumped Warbler1 Eastern Towhee5 Song Sparrowsmany 
White-throated Sparrowsmany Dark-eyed Juncos5 Northern Cardinals
Also had some mating Wood Frogs and some Red-eared Sliders.
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist
20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3
Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4629 
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[nysbirds-l] Wenfei Tong, Bird Love - BirdCallsRadio

[Mardi Dickinson]

Birders et al,

I know this is a difficult and unsettling time for all of us all. Lets think 
positive and admire the natural world from your own back yard and the window at 
home. 

In addition, I thought many of your would be interested in my next guest today 
Wenfei Tong about Bird Love, The Family Life of Birds 
https://birdcallsradio.com/

Sending you all my best to stay healthy, strong, safe and positive. Happy 
Birding from your window and backyard.

Cheers,

Mardi Dickinson

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[nysbirds-l] Fwd: [hmbirds] Harris's Sparrow

[zach schwartz-weinstein]

Forwarding this message from yesterday morning.  At least one person
searched the area for this bird yesterday, but did not see the bird in the
ensuing snowstorm.  This is the third Harris’s Sparrow in Albany County
since October 2015.

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From: Julie Hart 
Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:05 AM
Subject: [hmbirds] Harris's Sparrow
To: 


I received a notice that a Harris's Sparrow was seen yesterday on
Buckingham Pond in Albany. Photos attached!

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Hi Julie,

Sara and I had a very exciting discovery today—a Harris’s Sparrow!  Sara
took these photos.  We found it on our walk around Buckingham Pond which is
right next to Stonehenge Gardens where we live. It was associating with 3
White-throated Sparrows.  It was off the trail that circles the pond at the
west end of Raft Street (at this point the trail runs parallel to Raft
Street on the south side of the pond).  It was in a semi-open area on the
pond side of the trail where the trail makes a 90 degree turn.  The easiest
way to reach this location is to park at the playground on Berkshire Blvd.
and walk the trail to the spot.

Later in the morning I returned to the area where we saw the bird and
scattered some millet. We checked the spot one more time later in the
afternoon but saw no birds at the seed.

Sara and I don’t know any other birders so you can share this information
as you like.  We’ll check for the bird tomorrow.  Thanks!

Brian and Sara




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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan & N.Y. County (NYC), since-spring-started, 3/20-21-22:

[Thomas Fiore]

New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan & 2 other/smaller isles.

On a very rainy Monday, in a very-nearly-deserted Central Park, I found & 
photographed 3 LESSER Scaup (a female & 2 brightly-plumaged males) on the 
reservoir, nearer to the N/NW side & occasionally swimming amongst N. 
Shovelers, as well as independent of other dockage, & mostly sticking with each 
other in their single-species trio. These scaup were still there as I passed by 
for a 2nd time just after 6 pm. The species has become far less-common than 
once was at that location (in the 1980’s & earlier, Lesser Scaup were very 
regular on Central Park’s reservoir & also elsewhere on Manhattan & N.Y. County 
waters - no longer). I scanned as well as possible in the rainy-windy 
conditions and did not see any grebe other than a single & long-lingering 
Pied-billed Grebe at the C.P. reservoir, on 2 passes there Monday.  (Additional 
note, I’m practicing safe-spatial distancing as I go out, birding & otherwise; 
this is strongly recommended by almost all healthcare & other experts in the 
subject on which we are all, worldwide, now aware of!)

Tree Swallows are back on-territory (nesting area) again, in one of their 
reliable N.Y. County locations, on Governors Island (off-limits to the general 
public for now as the island has been closed for the season in usual winter 
fashion; a few peope are authorized to survey birds there during that period & 
under the auspices of NYCAudubon & with permit of the City of New York.  On 
that island, a report of a ‘possible' "American Tree Sparrow" was interesting 
(& certainly, that species can, and has occured there at times in the past!) 
but the bird which was photographed and put into an eBird report for Friday, 
March 20, is almost-certainly in fact a (non-breeding & worn) SNOW BUNTING, a 
nice sighting for New York County, albeit one that no birders could’ve ‘chased’ 
to view, even in normal-times, as the entire island is (normally, & also for 
now) closed to public visitation thru March.  Also of interest at Governors 
Island as of Friday, 3/20 were 2 Hooded Mergansers; & good no’s. of such 
species as Killdeer, & Fish Crow, again a good breeding area for these species 
in the county, excepting those mergansers!  Incidentally, Tree Swallows had 
arrived in numbers at some select locations in (for ex.) Westchester Co., NY 
weeks earlier, & also were being seen in multiple places in New England earlier 
this month. (Thanks for tip-off on the Snow Bunting to L. Beausoleil who added 
the photos later in his report.)

A now brightly-plumaged RED-HEADED Woodpecker has continued its lengthy stay, 
overwintered & now in near-fully-adult plumage with full red ‘hood’, at its 
usual area just east of Central Park’s “West Drive” park road, and west of the 
s.w. portion of the N. Meadow ballfields, with the closest park entry at W. 
97th Street off Central Park West. A wait of at least a few minutes around 
there will typically produce a sighting of a mostly-active woodpecker, & it 
also vocalizes now & again.

TWO Horned Grebes were found on the reservoir in Central Park as of Sunday (one 
in brighter colors, the other less so); this is part of a fairly broad movement 
of that species with some locations seeing numbers ‘drop in’ and in a few 
inland locations, in numbers, during storms especially. Horned Grebe has been 
seen in Central Park multiple times in the past decade (for ex., in 2010, ''11, 
'12, '16, '17, ’18 - generally by hundreds or by 1000’s of observers sometimes 
over a period of weeks on end, and many dozens of times over the history of the 
park and people birding there; as a New York County sighting, it’s not possible 
to count up all the records for the species both contemporary & historical, but 
they would number in the many many 1,000’s. This species is neither a ‘mega’, 
nor even a true rarity for Central Park. This does not diminish the enjoyment 
of seeing one drop in there, both for those who have not seen one ever before & 
for those who may have seen thousands of this species over a lifetime of 
birding. And having 2 H.Grebes as well as a lingering Pied-billed Grebe for a 
sometimes nearby comparison, was an uncommon treat for all N.Y. County watchers.

N.B. - some further observers of the (wintered) Wood Thrush that was skulking 
in the southeast parts of Central Park at least to late February came forward 
with some more info.; it seems that that one individual had been seen & also 
photographed from around late Nov., & very intermittently to late in the real 
winter-period. Thanks to Debbie Becker amongst others for the further tips.  As 
noted before to this list, that species is a rare-winterer in N.Y. City, not 
without precedent in Central Park in mid to late winter, but quite unexpected 
then. Most of that species are in Central America and parts of Mexico for (at 
least) the winter months, and migrate north along with the big spring passages 
of so many other ne