[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday July 30, 2016
Central Park NYC - Ramble Sunday July 30, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Boathouse at 9am. Heavy rain at times made for difficult viewing conditions on today's bird walk. No sign of yesterday's Blue-winged Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo or Orchard Oriole, but increasing numbers of Yellow Warblers & American Redstarts. Mallard - Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird - 3 together (2 adults & juvenile) Turtle Pond Carolina Wren - 2 Upper Lobe American Robin Wood Thrush - Warbler Rock Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing - flock of 10-15 over Humming Tombstone Ovenbird - first-of-season (found by Sandra Critelli) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 25 Yellow Warbler 15 Eastern Towhee - south end of Maintenance Field Red-winged Blackbird - flyover flocks Baltimore Oriole - 2 or 3 Others reported a Northern Waterthrush at the Upper Lobe. Deborah Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYS Hotspots: Update to Westchester County wikipage
In keeping with creating wikipages for the Top 10 locations for the top 15 counties I just reviewed the Top 10 hotspots for Westchester County and found that 2 locations have pushed aside previous Top 10 sites. New wikipages were developed for '*Rye Nature Center*' and '*Teatown Lake Reservation*'. Both have totals of 149 spp. The two that were replaced are '*Chestnut Ridge Hawk Watch*' and '*Lenoir Preserve*' with 146 and 141 spp. respectively. I haven't deleted the wikipages for the two replaced hotspots. These pages have been simplified and won't need to be updated on a monthly basis. Additions of a site description and helpful links can and will be made for these 'static' sites. I've removed the color highlight on the location name denoting the # of spp. and removed the # of spp. on the table for selecting bar charts for any month, season or full year (all years when you click the name under 'Checklists by Season by Month' or by clicking Current Year below the table). The notable finds section has been removed. Enjoy! You can see the changes to the Westchester County page here. Look at the alphabetical list below the Top 10 locations to see links to the Hawk Watch and Lenoir. http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Westchester -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Croton point park Funding Will Help Restore Croton Point Park Meadow | WAMC
After seeing photos of beautiful perched up meadowlark from the landfill this morning I walked the landfill from 345-445 breeze was up a bit so quite pleasant and great birds (but no meadowlark) -- 4 osprey, 2 red tail, 1 bald eagle (young bird), 1 kestrel, 2 grasshopper sparrow one teed up, Savannah sparrow, 5+ bobolink, and seemingly staging swallows mostly tree, some barn, and I ran into someone who thought he might have had a bank, but then again he may have been a joker as he was wearing a Brown (University) Football tee shirt. And for a drawback just pulled off three ticks albeit while drinking a rewarding beer at the Green Growler See article below -- with the vigilant support and monitoring of Anne Swaim Saw Mill River Audubon, Charlie Roberto of Teatown and NYFD and all around teacher and naturalist, Karalyn Lamb, invasive species guru, John Phillips, croton point park naturalist and state senator Terrence Murphy a $630K grant has been secured and seemingly funded for a landfill meadow restoration project -- making it likely the Point will be even better when project complete. See link. http://wamc.org/post/funding-will-help-restore-croton-point-park-meadow#stream/0 L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Orchard Oriole in NYBG
Went Friday after work to check out the corpse plant blooming in NY Botanical Garden and then went for a little evening bird watching. Lots of goldfinches, robins, and starlings - but also three very active Eastern Kingbirds and a beautiful male Baltimore Oriole. But the highlight of the evening was an impressive male Orchard Oriole in the Native Plant garden section just outside of the Rock Garden. I couldn’t find the nest - but it’s constant low flying back and forth seemed to signal to me a nearby nest. I pinged Debbie Becker and we suspect this may be the first reported nesting of an Orchard in the park. Alan Drogin -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sunday July 30, 2016
Central Park NYC - Ramble Sunday July 30, 2016 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the Boathouse at 9am. Heavy rain at times made for difficult viewing conditions on today's bird walk. No sign of yesterday's Blue-winged Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo or Orchard Oriole, but increasing numbers of Yellow Warblers & American Redstarts. Mallard - Turtle Pond Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird - 3 together (2 adults & juvenile) Turtle Pond Carolina Wren - 2 Upper Lobe American Robin Wood Thrush - Warbler Rock Gray Catbird Cedar Waxwing - flock of 10-15 over Humming Tombstone Ovenbird - first-of-season (found by Sandra Critelli) Black-and-white Warbler - 4 American Redstart - 25 Yellow Warbler 15 Eastern Towhee - south end of Maintenance Field Red-winged Blackbird - flyover flocks Baltimore Oriole - 2 or 3 Others reported a Northern Waterthrush at the Upper Lobe. Deborah Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Croton point park Funding Will Help Restore Croton Point Park Meadow | WAMC
After seeing photos of beautiful perched up meadowlark from the landfill this morning I walked the landfill from 345-445 breeze was up a bit so quite pleasant and great birds (but no meadowlark) -- 4 osprey, 2 red tail, 1 bald eagle (young bird), 1 kestrel, 2 grasshopper sparrow one teed up, Savannah sparrow, 5+ bobolink, and seemingly staging swallows mostly tree, some barn, and I ran into someone who thought he might have had a bank, but then again he may have been a joker as he was wearing a Brown (University) Football tee shirt. And for a drawback just pulled off three ticks albeit while drinking a rewarding beer at the Green Growler See article below -- with the vigilant support and monitoring of Anne Swaim Saw Mill River Audubon, Charlie Roberto of Teatown and NYFD and all around teacher and naturalist, Karalyn Lamb, invasive species guru, John Phillips, croton point park naturalist and state senator Terrence Murphy a $630K grant has been secured and seemingly funded for a landfill meadow restoration project -- making it likely the Point will be even better when project complete. See link. http://wamc.org/post/funding-will-help-restore-croton-point-park-meadow#stream/0 L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Orchard Oriole in NYBG
Went Friday after work to check out the corpse plant blooming in NY Botanical Garden and then went for a little evening bird watching. Lots of goldfinches, robins, and starlings - but also three very active Eastern Kingbirds and a beautiful male Baltimore Oriole. But the highlight of the evening was an impressive male Orchard Oriole in the Native Plant garden section just outside of the Rock Garden. I couldn’t find the nest - but it’s constant low flying back and forth seemed to signal to me a nearby nest. I pinged Debbie Becker and we suspect this may be the first reported nesting of an Orchard in the park. Alan Drogin -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYS Hotspots: Update to Westchester County wikipage
In keeping with creating wikipages for the Top 10 locations for the top 15 counties I just reviewed the Top 10 hotspots for Westchester County and found that 2 locations have pushed aside previous Top 10 sites. New wikipages were developed for '*Rye Nature Center*' and '*Teatown Lake Reservation*'. Both have totals of 149 spp. The two that were replaced are '*Chestnut Ridge Hawk Watch*' and '*Lenoir Preserve*' with 146 and 141 spp. respectively. I haven't deleted the wikipages for the two replaced hotspots. These pages have been simplified and won't need to be updated on a monthly basis. Additions of a site description and helpful links can and will be made for these 'static' sites. I've removed the color highlight on the location name denoting the # of spp. and removed the # of spp. on the table for selecting bar charts for any month, season or full year (all years when you click the name under 'Checklists by Season by Month' or by clicking Current Year below the table). The notable finds section has been removed. Enjoy! You can see the changes to the Westchester County page here. Look at the alphabetical list below the Top 10 locations to see links to the Hawk Watch and Lenoir. http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Westchester -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
