[nysbirds-l] Tufted Duck at Ausable Point State Park.
I missed it Wednesday afternoon and kept scoping the large flock of Scaup on Thursday. About mid-morning I was surprised to see a Snow Goose within the loose flock of Scaup, especially after I must have scoped it over 100 times. Then I noticed a small flock of Scaup to the left (I was to the left/north of the park on the first pulloff on NY9). I was suspicious of the one bird but it always faced me. Then all the Scaup dove and the Tufted Duck turned right and that was it. The Tufted kept joining up with the Scaup but NEVER DOVE. I made a call to Bill Kreuger who gave me the tips that the Tufted was seen from just over the bridge (good pulloversx2) and from NY9 and to be patient because sometimes it takes a long time to find. And it did take a long time. And when I tried to find the Tufted again, it was not to be found. So I decided to pack it up for Buffalo. A very nice day/trip. Jerry Lazarczyk Grand Island NY Weight Loss Program Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/c?cp=0TBD-HxHFOuGsCXuIb5TmAAAJ1Huz9iSZvtuEnZrPya7cU_rAAYAAADNAAAEUgA= -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Hempstead Lake SP
Hempstead Lake SP; 18 Mar. Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) went looking for early migrants. Till now, things have been lackluster. Even the vegetation is late with red maples just stating to bud. There was some migrant movement into the park in the last day or so with 4 Wood Ducks, Tree Swallows, single members of both Kinglets, a dozen Yellow-rumped Warblers (not usually found here in winter) and a pair of Eastern Towhees. It's a start. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Linnaean Society Meeting
THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7:30 p.m. The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater Speaker: Shaibal Mitra, Assistant Professor of Biology, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York Subject: Recent Changes in Status and Distribution of New York State Birds: Detection vs. Population Expansion and Contraction The natural communities of the New York Metro area have been studied longer and more intensively than all but a few on the planet, and this area's avifauna has received a disproportionate share of this prolonged and expert attention. Even so, considerable uncertainty remains concerning the distribution and abundance of many bird species in this area. A series of case studies will be used to illustrate these gaps in our understanding of New York's avifauna, especially the difficulties involved in distinguishing between historical trends in detection and identification vs. shifts in actual distribution and abundance, arising from population expansion or contraction. Methods for distinguishing detection issues from actual changes in status will be described and the value of data collected via citizen science initiatives in this regard will be emphasized. Finally, the lessons drawn from this well known faunal group in this closely studied geographical region will be discussed in relation to the urgent challenges of monitoring and conserving biodiversity in more general contexts. >From 1996 to 2000 Shaibal Mitra operated a major bird- banding station at the >Fire Island Lighthouse. He is probably best known to us as a birder and the >Editor of The Kingbird. His research focuses on avian ecology, evolution, and >conservation. The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please join us for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum at West 77th Street. If you would like to meet Dr. Mitra prior to the talk, join us at Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The reservation will be in the name of Alice. Alice Deutsch, Vice President -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 18 Mar 2010
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/18/2010 * NYBU1003.18 - Birds mentioned - Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David - BLACK VULTURE CACKLING GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE BLACK-HEADED GULL Snow Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser American Woodcock Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Barred Owl Eastern Bluebird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2009 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 18, 2010 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 11 through March 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, CACKLING GEESE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and BLACK-HEADED GULL. From Niagara County, March 14, a BLACK VULTURE over Drum Road at Somerset-Hartland Townline. After a 20 minute observation, the vulture was not seen again. Also on the Somerset-Hartland Townline, at Johnson Creek Road on the 14th, among a large flock of CANADA GEESE, one GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and an astonishing count of 76 CACKLING GEESE, plus 1100 NORTHERN PINTAILS. [LATE REPORT - March 18, 81 CACKLING GEESE at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area.] Waterfowl migrants are finding open water during the past week. March 11, 4 NORTHERN SHOVELERS at Route 18 and Niagara-Orleans Countyline. March 12, 5 pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in the Feeder Road canal in the Iroquois Refuge. Another pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in a Pendleton yard. March 17 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, arriving WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. On the Niagara River off Grand Island, RING-NECKED DUCKS added to the wintering waterfowl - CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER. The only report of SNOW GEESE this week - 11 on March 11th in the Town of Yates. One hundred miles east of the region - 250,000 SNOW GEESE north of the the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. March 14 on the lower Niagara River, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS off the Lewiston docks. Also, 12 LITTLE GULLS at the docks on the 17th. Also this week - In Buffalo, AMERICAN WOODCOCK along Warbler Ridge in Forest Lawn Cemetery. BARRED OWL calling in the Town of Holland. And, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS visiting nest boxes in the Town of Cambria. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 25. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYC - Color Wing Tagged Gulls
A recent sighting of color wing tagged Ring-billed Gull (A99 - orange) prompted me to send a report of this bird and a group of wing tagged gulls seen by Angus Wilson at Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn on February 7th, 2010. Here's Angus' report < http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/msg01352.html >. Angus' A99 RBGU was seen again on a trip to Staten Island's Silver Lake Park on Feb. 28th, 2010. This gull is displaying an interesting pattern based on the limited sightings. In the month of November for both 2008 (the month it was tagged) and 2009 it was spotted in Massachsetts. The rest of the sightings are for the months of Dec. - Feb. and all of these sightings are from New York City. Angus' A375 sighting is a first report to the group that tracks these gulls. It was tagged less than 2 months before his sighting. Which happened in Massachusetts. Here's the email I received from Ken MacKenzie on the movement of these gulls and the email addresses to report sightings of any color wing tagged gulls you see: ken.macken...@state.ma.us dan.cl...@state.ma.us /- begin quote -\ Ben, Thanks for reporting the sightings to us. Here is some specific information on the gulls you saw: *A99:* · Captured 11/5/08 at Upper Blackstone Water Treatment Facility, Millbury, MA · Capture location (GPS): 42.21231, - 71.78614 · Captured using a rocket net baited with crackers · Adult ring-billed gull · Florescent orange wing-tags: A99 · Red leg band: SU · Federal leg band: 0974-05321 · Released on site Sightings: · 11/29/08: Wachusett Reservoir, West Boylston, MA · 01/09/09: Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, NY · 02/13/09: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY · 11/16/09: South Plaza, Worcester, MA · 11/24/09: Wachusett Reservoir, West Boylston, MA · 12/05/09: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY · 01/05/10: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY · 01/10/10: Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, NY Additional sightings to original message · 02/07/10: Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, NY [A. Wilson] · 02/28/10: Silver Lake Park reservoir, Staten Island, NY [B. Cacace] *A366:* · Captured 12/15/08 at Worcester Hotel & Conference Center, MA · Capture location (GPS): 42.295643, - 71.774175 · Captured using a rocket net baited with crackers · Adult female ring-billed gull · Florescent orange wing-tags: A366 · Federal leg band: 0994-03497 · Released on site Sightings: · 12/27/09: Gravesend Bay, Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, NY · 12/28/09: Benshonhurst Park, Brooklyn, NY · 01/05/10: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY *A375:* · Captured 12/15/09 at Vinny T's Restaurant, Rt. 9, Shrewsbury, MA · Capture location (GPS): 42.27549, - 71.75374 · Captured using a rocket net baited with bread and crackers · Adult female ring-billed gull · Florescent orange wing-tags: A375 · Federal leg band: 0994-03507 · Released on site Sightings: · This is the first sighting of this gull. Thank you! Thanks again for the sighting, and please let me know if you see it (or others) again. Ken MacKenzie Senior Wildlife Biologist DCR- Division of Water Supply Protection 180 Beaman Street West Boylston, MA 01583 508-792-7423 x313 \- end -/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] NYC - Color Wing Tagged Gulls
A recent sighting of color wing tagged Ring-billed Gull (A99 - orange) prompted me to send a report of this bird and a group of wing tagged gulls seen by Angus Wilson at Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn on February 7th, 2010. Here's Angus' report http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/msg01352.html . Angus' A99 RBGU was seen again on a trip to Staten Island's Silver Lake Park on Feb. 28th, 2010. This gull is displaying an interesting pattern based on the limited sightings. In the month of November for both 2008 (the month it was tagged) and 2009 it was spotted in Massachsetts. The rest of the sightings are for the months of Dec. - Feb. and all of these sightings are from New York City. Angus' A375 sighting is a first report to the group that tracks these gulls. It was tagged less than 2 months before his sighting. Which happened in Massachusetts. Here's the email I received from Ken MacKenzie on the movement of these gulls and the email addresses to report sightings of any color wing tagged gulls you see: ken.macken...@state.ma.us dan.cl...@state.ma.us /- begin quote -\ Ben, Thanks for reporting the sightings to us. Here is some specific information on the gulls you saw: *A99:* · Captured 11/5/08 at Upper Blackstone Water Treatment Facility, Millbury, MA · Capture location (GPS): 42.21231, - 71.78614 · Captured using a rocket net baited with crackers · Adult ring-billed gull · Florescent orange wing-tags: A99 · Red leg band: SU · Federal leg band: 0974-05321 · Released on site Sightings: · 11/29/08: Wachusett Reservoir, West Boylston, MA · 01/09/09: Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, NY · 02/13/09: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY · 11/16/09: South Plaza, Worcester, MA · 11/24/09: Wachusett Reservoir, West Boylston, MA · 12/05/09: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY · 01/05/10: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY · 01/10/10: Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, NY Additional sightings to original message · 02/07/10: Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn, NY [A. Wilson] · 02/28/10: Silver Lake Park reservoir, Staten Island, NY [B. Cacace] *A366:* · Captured 12/15/08 at Worcester Hotel Conference Center, MA · Capture location (GPS): 42.295643, - 71.774175 · Captured using a rocket net baited with crackers · Adult female ring-billed gull · Florescent orange wing-tags: A366 · Federal leg band: 0994-03497 · Released on site Sightings: · 12/27/09: Gravesend Bay, Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, NY · 12/28/09: Benshonhurst Park, Brooklyn, NY · 01/05/10: Belt Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY *A375:* · Captured 12/15/09 at Vinny T's Restaurant, Rt. 9, Shrewsbury, MA · Capture location (GPS): 42.27549, - 71.75374 · Captured using a rocket net baited with bread and crackers · Adult female ring-billed gull · Florescent orange wing-tags: A375 · Federal leg band: 0994-03507 · Released on site Sightings: · This is the first sighting of this gull. Thank you! Thanks again for the sighting, and please let me know if you see it (or others) again. Ken MacKenzie Senior Wildlife Biologist DCR- Division of Water Supply Protection 180 Beaman Street West Boylston, MA 01583 508-792-7423 x313 \- end -/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 18 Mar 2010
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/18/2010 * NYBU1003.18 - Birds mentioned - Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David - BLACK VULTURE CACKLING GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE BLACK-HEADED GULL Snow Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser American Woodcock Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Barred Owl Eastern Bluebird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/10/2009 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, March 18, 2010 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 11 through March 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include BLACK VULTURE, CACKLING GEESE, GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and BLACK-HEADED GULL. From Niagara County, March 14, a BLACK VULTURE over Drum Road at Somerset-Hartland Townline. After a 20 minute observation, the vulture was not seen again. Also on the Somerset-Hartland Townline, at Johnson Creek Road on the 14th, among a large flock of CANADA GEESE, one GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE and an astonishing count of 76 CACKLING GEESE, plus 1100 NORTHERN PINTAILS. [LATE REPORT - March 18, 81 CACKLING GEESE at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area.] Waterfowl migrants are finding open water during the past week. March 11, 4 NORTHERN SHOVELERS at Route 18 and Niagara-Orleans Countyline. March 12, 5 pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in the Feeder Road canal in the Iroquois Refuge. Another pair of HOODED MERGANSERS in a Pendleton yard. March 17 at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, arriving WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON and GREEN-WINGED TEAL. On the Niagara River off Grand Island, RING-NECKED DUCKS added to the wintering waterfowl - CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, GREATER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE and COMMON MERGANSER. The only report of SNOW GEESE this week - 11 on March 11th in the Town of Yates. One hundred miles east of the region - 250,000 SNOW GEESE north of the the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. March 14 on the lower Niagara River, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL with BONAPARTE'S GULLS and LONG-TAILED DUCKS off the Lewiston docks. Also, 12 LITTLE GULLS at the docks on the 17th. Also this week - In Buffalo, AMERICAN WOODCOCK along Warbler Ridge in Forest Lawn Cemetery. BARRED OWL calling in the Town of Holland. And, EASTERN BLUEBIRDS visiting nest boxes in the Town of Cambria. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 25. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
