[nysbirds-l] The next In-Person Queens County Bird Club/NY meeting is on Wednesday 12/13/23 at 7:30 PM featuring Ian Resnick "Guatemala Birding aka I've Got to Get Back to the Tropics"

[marciaaabrah...@aol.com]

 Good evening,

Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season.
Don't miss the next in-person Queens County Bird Club monthly meeting on 
Wednesday 12/13/23 7:30 PM, held at the newly renovated APEC, 229-10 Northern 
Boulevard, Douglaston, NY 11362.
Ian Resnick will present "Guatemala Birding aka I've Got to Get Back to the 
Tropics"
Ian Resnick took a trip to Guatemala in November 2021 to get his fix of neo 
tropical birds, with Luke Seitz of Wings as the guide. He ended up with over 
330 species on the trip, and no covid! 
We will also discuss the upcoming Queens County CBC and are looking forward to 
seeing and catching up with all of you. 

Marcia Abrahams
VP/Programs CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubhttp://www.qcbirdclub.org
Email:  marciaaabrah...@aol.com   
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[nysbirds-l] Hammond's Flycatcher - Rockland Lake State, Rockland Co., NY

[Alan Wells]

Andrew, thanks for the reminder to post to nysbird; this sighting was well
covered in the Lower Hudson region, but posting to the broader NY list
slipped through the cracks. My apologies.

 

The bird was first sighted Saturday morning, 11/25/2023 by Della Wells, Alan
Wells, Carol Weiss, and Julia Warger. It was actively searching and feeding
in a large, bare oak tree just north of the ramp to the handicap accessible
dock at the south end of parking lot #6 (known as the Fishing Station
Parking Lot) at Rockland Lake State Park (free entrance). These coordinates
should get you to the exact tree where it was first seen:  41.142868,
-73.927493.  (Note: aerial photos show two docks at Lot #6, however, the
northernmost dock was removed about two months ago and the photos do not
reflect this.) After about 10-15 minutes the bird flew to a group of trees
just a few yards to the southwest where we lost track of it (41.142722,
-73.927745). We posted it as Empidonax sp. on an eBird checklist immediately
after we lost sight of it. Later that day, after examining the photos and
discussions with several other birders familiar with Empid flycatchers, the
designation was changed from Empidonax sp. to Hammond's Flycatcher on the
basis of the tear-drop shaped eye ring, yellow lower mandible, long primary
projections, and moderately developed crest.

 

At dawn Sunday morning a large crowd had gathered (one estimate was about 40
people) and the bird was seen well; numerous photos and several audio
recordings were made and submitted to eBird. Additional sightings were
reported Tuesday.

 

Della and I returned on Wednesday morning (11/29/2023) about 9 am and easily
found the bird in the same tree as the initial sighting. I obtained a number
of new photos, but no audio. It made occasional forays to nearby areas
throughout the morning, but would return to the original oak tree after
short absences. At times it would be searching only a foot or two off the
ground. Throughout the morning we ran into about a dozen birders that had
obtained good looks at the bird. We left about noon.

 

A search of eBird records suggest only four previous NY records of this
species: Jones Beach 10/26-27/2001; Marshlands Conservancy 11/19-25/2006;
Central Park 11/26/2017 - 12/12/2017; Bashakill State WMA 12/10/20/2022

 

Good luck if you go!

 

Alan Wells

 

 


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[nysbirds-l] Rockland Lake Hammond's Flycatcher

[Andrew Block]

I have not seen it posted here, but the Hammond's Flycatcher first seen at 
Rockland Lake S.P. just north of Nyack a few days ago was still at the parking 
lot 6 area as of yesterday morning.  I was told by a friend it had been seen 
there again.
Andrew  
Andrew BlockConsulting Naturalist
Yonkers, New York www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Little Blue Heron?

[Jennifer Wilson-Pines]

It's possible. It's a hard area to access, mostly viewed from across the
back of the harbor.

Jennifer Wilson Pines

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:19 AM Francisco Rodríguez <
franciscojrodrig...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think this list includes Long Island, if not please disregard.
>
> What did I see?
>
> I was driving this morning on 25A by the Roslyn bridge, which is a tall
> bridge over land and the beginning of the marshes of that bay and this bird
> was going up very vertically from the marshes, to get a little higher than
> I was on the side of the bridge. Perspective could be deceiving and I had
> only few seconds to see it but it was small-ish, blue-ish (dark), with
> pretty decent pace flapping going upwards and it totally looked like a
> Little Blue Heron. Only that it is pretty late for them to stay around,
> right?
>
> I have never seen a Great Blue Heron flap fast like that. That doesn't
> mean that they can't. I just haven't seen it. I am sure that there are
> plenty of Great Blue Herons in that area currently. But it "looked" more
> dark blue and smaller.
>
> So, if anybody birds in that area, I would like to hear what it could have
> been...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Regards
> Fran
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[nysbirds-l] Little Blue Heron?

[Francisco Rodríguez]

Hi,

I think this list includes Long Island, if not please disregard.

What did I see?

I was driving this morning on 25A by the Roslyn bridge, which is a tall
bridge over land and the beginning of the marshes of that bay and this bird
was going up very vertically from the marshes, to get a little higher than
I was on the side of the bridge. Perspective could be deceiving and I had
only few seconds to see it but it was small-ish, blue-ish (dark), with
pretty decent pace flapping going upwards and it totally looked like a
Little Blue Heron. Only that it is pretty late for them to stay around,
right?

I have never seen a Great Blue Heron flap fast like that. That doesn't mean
that they can't. I just haven't seen it. I am sure that there are plenty of
Great Blue Herons in that area currently. But it "looked" more dark blue
and smaller.

So, if anybody birds in that area, I would like to hear what it could have
been...

Thanks,

Regards
Fran

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[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC Black-chinned Hummingbird, 11/28, and other recent birds

[Tom Fiore]

New York County -in N.Y. City- including Randalls Island, Governors Island, and 
Manhattan, and nearby waters and skies
thru Tues, Nov. 28th -

The lingering very rare Black-chinned Hummingbird was still being seen at 
Randalls Island, more and more when it visits the feeder that had been placed 
at its favored location there and still requiring some patience, thru 11/28.

A Dickcissel had continued to be seen as well on Randalls Island at least up 
thru 11/25 and might still be lingering. A rare-in-county Snow Bunting was only 
seen there on 11/22, none since within the county.

On 11/26-27, 2 Purple Sandpipers were seen -and nicely photod on the 26th, L. 
LaBella- at Governors Island, with a Ruddy Turnstone also reported from there 
on the 27th. A Baltimore Oriole was seen on Governors Island on 11/25 and other 
birds there from that date included White-crowned Sparrow and Orange-crowned 
Warbler.

In other warbler sightings from around the county, the warbler hotspot in a 
sense for so late in the year was perhaps Sherman Creek Park just north of 
Swindler Cove, just north of the east end of Dyckman St., in northern Manhattan 
where there had been Black-and-white, Nashville, and Orange-crowned among 
Warblers found fairly recently, with Morninside Park also in Manhattan 
providing Wilsons and Nashville Warblers very recently, all the above warblers 
lingering in their respective areas, as was so for some other warbler spp. in 
select parks or greenspaces recently, esp. so of Ovenbird and Common 
Yellowthroat, both typical of species that may include straggling individuals 
in fall-to-winter season.

On 11/25, Central Park had just one Canvasback, a one day wonder now rather 
scarce in the county, long ago -30+ years ago!- a common and even near-abundant 
sight on the Central Park reservoir, this latest alerted for others to get out 
and observe also, by H. Cordero. Four Long-tailed Ducks were around the Hudson 
River near the west end of Dyckman Street on both 11/23 and 11/28. Back on 
11/22 only, a Horned Grebe was seen off Randalls Island.

Some Monk Parakeet sightings in the county included a group of five showing at 
least briefly in the north end of Central Park this month with more sightings 
from near the Harlem River and vicinity this month.

Plenty of other species also have shown in recent days. Thanks to many 
observers and reporters of all of these many birds.

Good birding to all,

Tom Fiore
manhattan


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