Saw Mill River Audubon's Summer Solstice walk tonight atop the Croton Point
Park landfill grasslands (7:30-9:15pm) not only offered scope viewing of
three moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn but interesting observations
of three grassland birds singing at dusk:
* Grasshopper Sparrows (5)
four
Today was the first time I've been to the beach since the reports started
about the shearwater deaths. Walking west from the White Sands hotel in
Napeague (East Hampton) I found 6 dead birds within a 1 mile stretch. This
area seems to concentrate ocean debris so 6 dead birds in 1 mile should not
be
*NY County Highlights:* Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Killdeer (9), American
Kestrel, Fish Crow (22+), Common Raven, Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2) &
Tree Swallow (3).
A female American Kestrel caught a sparrow in midair near Fort Jay and the
pair of Red-tailed Hawks were spotted together. One is
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In south garden just past pin oak grove
Walk 300ft past bench
viewed from this location at 6.07pm on 06-21-2017
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Arie Gilbert
No. Babylon NY
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On Dickcissels, there’ve been some sightings in e. Canada, including very near
Buffalo, NY. Any location in NY state might potentially see these, the more so
in likely / good habitat patches.
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Start of Summer, 21st June 2017 (Wed.)
Central Park, Manhattan, New York City
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Dawn Hannay and I saw surf scoters at Nickerson today: one fairly close to
shore and 8 farther out. Also an American Pipit found by Rob Bate and Rich
Fried.
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Gina Goldstein
Senior Editor/Writer
The BLACK-NECKED STILT continues at Kumph Marsh, Iroquois NWR. The bird is
extremely difficult to see because of all the vegetation. Betsy and I walked
Feeder Road for the entire length of Kumph Marsh and did not see it. Then,
on the way back, Betsy spotted it where the vegetation was slightly lowe
This AM an Acadian Flycatcher was heard singing at Hempstead Lake SP. it could
heard both at 6:30am and 10:30am.
At the South end of the park, about 200 yards SSW of Parking lot #3. Could be
heard from the paved path singing on the Southern edge of the Creek.
I was singing its very short son
Continues and seems to favor the 3 paths near the south garden. Observed
feeding on the ground of the middle path and seen from the upper path.
Last seen in a tree near the lower path that goes through the south garden.
Observations were with Menachem and his mom, Pat Palladino and Robert
Pron
There has been an interesting discussion on NJ Listserv of a seemingly eruptive
year of dickcissels in NJ and PA – and there have been several sightings posted
here from NY. (I was fortunate to see the singing male dickcissel as well as
the singing and I understand continuing Henslow’s sparrow
A search of eBird data (Explore Data -- Species Maps -- filters: Great
Shearwater - May and June - Current Year - Massachusetts) produced
results that indicate a corresponding lack of Great (and Cory's)
shearwaters from Cape Cod and coastal New England waters (Block Island
to Maine) as a whole:
Sorry. It was south garden!
Seen in north garden just off gravel path that goes out to the old breach.
Rob Bate & Rich Fried
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Seen in north garden just off gravel path that goes out to the old breach.
Rob Bate & Rich Fried
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