[nysbirds-l] Cedar beach in Mount Sinai, long island, ny

[Jeanne]

Cedar waxwing migration has landed at cedar beach. Had to be thousands in every 
tree ...

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[nysbirds-l] Amazing Cayuga Pool in Genesee County and other rarities

[Willie D'Anna]

Congratulations to Peter Yoerg on one of the best finds ever in Western NY
(yesterday evening) - an adult in breeding plumage GULL-BILLED TERN. With
little information to go on other than somewhere in Iroquois NWR, Josh Ketry
was out at Cayuga Pool early this morning and he relocated, photographed,
and confirmed the identification of the tern. Many birders have been able to
see it so far today. The bird spends its time sitting in and flying over
Cayuga Pool, as well as nearby Kumpf Marsh. At Cayuga Pool, it is usually
off to the back left (not the extreme left) and can be difficult to see
because of cattails when sitting. It is much easier to see in flight. A
scope is highly recommended.

 

Cayuga Pool is being drained, which we have learned over the years can be
very productive for birds. Other birds at Cayuga Pool today were: the
continuing SNOWY EGRET found by Josh Ketry and singing young male ORCHARD
ORIOLE, a GLOSSY IBIS (found by Josh Ketry and identified by Chris Wood),
two WILSON'S PHALAROPES found by Mike Morgante, a WHIMBREL found by Joe
Mitchell, and about 300 shorebirds, mostly Semipalmated Sandpipers, with
some Semi Plovers, Least Sandpipers, Dunlin, one Pectoral Sandpiper, and a
few Short-billed Dowitchers. My thanks to Andy Guthrie for the shorebird
report.

 

At nearby Tonawanda WMA, the CATTLE EGRET found by Bev Seyler two days ago
continues. It was seen from the north-south dike through Ruddy Marsh West
(access from Rt 77) and also seen back where it was discovered, at Paddy 2
(access from Griswold St) and most recently, on the dike between Paddys 3
and 4. Maps of Tonawanda WMA may be found online at the DEC web site, here:
https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/106378.html

 

At about 1:15 today, Joe Mitchell had an adult SWAINSON'S HAWK fly over his
home in Alden, Erie County, heading northeast. Perhaps someone will get
lucky and see it at the swamps and hopefully, David Brown will get it at the
Braddock Bay hawkwatch.

 

Good birding!

Willie

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Amazing Cayuga Pool in Genesee County and other rarities

[Shaibal Mitra]

Thanks for sharing this spectacular record, Willie, as well as all the other 
great highlights from the swamps!

Gull-billed Tern was reported by DeKay (1844) to occur around the Great Lakes 
in New York State, at a time when it was not known from Long Island (e.g., by 
Giraud). DeKay's vague statement is shared by Eaton (1910) but was ignored by 
Bull (1974).

It's interesting to note that this species, like Caspian Tern, has an 
inexplicable geographic distribution--practically cosmopolitan, but highly 
localized within almost every larger region.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-124653609-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-124653609-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Willie D'Anna 
[dannapot...@roadrunner.com]
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 3:28 PM
To: 'nysbirds-l'
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Amazing Cayuga Pool in Genesee County and other rarities

Congratulations to Peter Yoerg on one of the best finds ever in Western NY 
(yesterday evening) – an adult in breeding plumage GULL-BILLED TERN. With 
little information to go on other than somewhere in Iroquois NWR, Josh Ketry 
was out at Cayuga Pool early this morning and he relocated, photographed, and 
confirmed the identification of the tern. Many birders have been able to see it 
so far today. The bird spends its time sitting in and flying over Cayuga Pool, 
as well as nearby Kumpf Marsh. At Cayuga Pool, it is usually off to the back 
left (not the extreme left) and can be difficult to see because of cattails 
when sitting. It is much easier to see in flight. A scope is highly recommended.

Cayuga Pool is being drained, which we have learned over the years can be very 
productive for birds. Other birds at Cayuga Pool today were: the continuing 
SNOWY EGRET found by Josh Ketry and singing young male ORCHARD ORIOLE, a GLOSSY 
IBIS (found by Josh Ketry and identified by Chris Wood), two WILSON’S 
PHALAROPES found by Mike Morgante, a WHIMBREL found by Joe Mitchell, and about 
300 shorebirds, mostly Semipalmated Sandpipers, with some Semi Plovers, Least 
Sandpipers, Dunlin, one Pectoral Sandpiper, and a few Short-billed Dowitchers. 
My thanks to Andy Guthrie for the shorebird report.

At nearby Tonawanda WMA, the CATTLE EGRET found by Bev Seyler two days ago 
continues. It was seen from the north-south dike through Ruddy Marsh West 
(access from Rt 77) and also seen back where it was discovered, at Paddy 2 
(access from Griswold St) and most recently, on the dike between Paddys 3 and 
4. Maps of Tonawanda WMA may be found online at the DEC web site, here: 
https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/106378.html

At about 1:15 today, Joe Mitchell had an adult SWAINSON’S HAWK fly over his 
home in Alden, Erie County, heading northeast. Perhaps someone will get lucky 
and see it at the swamps and hopefully, David Brown will get it at the Braddock 
Bay hawkwatch.

Good birding!
Willie
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Wilson, NY
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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan / N.Y. County - 5/21-22-23-24-25

[Thomas Fiore]

Exaltations and bird-joy to all New York’s birders, who have been finding, 
observing, recording & reporting so many great sightings.

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New York County (N.Y. City) including Manhattan
Thursday, May 21st, through Monday, May 25th - 

As somewhat anticipated, the delays in many of the typical for mid-May migrants 
which were a bit bottled-in farther south (including some south of the U.S. 
southern border) by weather systems, has broken-open & this is allowing the 
more usual flow of many species, some in numbers that are very welcome to see, 
into & through the region, including N.Y. City.  Ongoing at the lake-side of 
the Central Park Ramble has been an adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron which was 
still lingering.

Arrivals included… ( ?) It’s not clear that there were ‘new' species found for 
the county in this report period. Some species have come in and not been 
widely-detected yet; an example of such (here) would be Mourning Warbler, and 
there are others.

—
Thursday, 5/21 - A relatively quiet day in terms of sensible diurnal movements 
or much in the way of new overnight arrival (from Wed. 5/20, that is). It was 
still possible, with efforts, to seek and find a dozen or more warbler species, 
& a modest variety of other migrant species in Manhattan, but overall the day 
was a “slower” one by almost any standard of May birding.  The Yellow-breasted 
Chat continued on in a favored part of the Central Park Ramble, & at least one 
of the several recent Summer Tanagers also did.

Some of the lingering migrants in smaller parks & greenspaces in lower 
Manhattan included the following warblers:  Prairie, Northern Parula, 
Black-and-white, Blackburnian, American Redstart, Black-throated Blue, 
Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Wilson’s, Yellow, Ovenbird, 
and Common Yellowthroat. 
—
Friday, 5/22 -  Thursday night allowed a great many more migrants to move on, 
all around the region.

A (singing) male Hooded Warbler was found & observed by a number of 
north-Manhattan birders along Cabrini Blvd’s. wooded area, essentially a part 
of the southwestern sector of Fort Tryon Park. 

At least one Semiplamated Sandpiper was photographed (N.O’Reilly; add’l. obs. 
also incl. J.DeCostanzo, D.Karlson, et al) on the mudflats off Inwood Hill 
Park’s n. shore for a nice documented/public record of that species in 
Manhattan this month. That locale has been easily the best (of the 
regularly-watched sites) in the county for shorebirds so far this year.

Our two Tanager species have continued to be seen in at least Central Park and 
for Summer Tanager, another was again seen and photographed at Battery Park 
([C.Williams], by the bee-hives, which it seems will often attract that species 
in various places), & Scarlet has been found in multiple locations still, 
including males. A male Summer that has continued to be reported from Central 
Park could this time possibly be a different individual to prior recent 
sightings there, however more than one had been in that park for some days.  
And a Yellow-breasted Chat was again reported from the Ramble in Central Park, 
and in a slightly different location to most of the recent sightings and 
presumed the same now-long-lingering bird.  Also, both Yellow-billed & 
Black-billed Cuckoos were found in at least Central Park.

Modest numbers of later-moving Catharus thrush could be heard singing as well 
as some calling, from the wee hours of the night (high fly-overs) as well as 
from the ground in several parks from first-light on through a good chunk of 
the morning, in select areas. These included a reasonable number of 
Gray-cheeked & Swainson’s, & at least one singing Bicknell’s. Parks I visited 
included Central, Riverside, and Morningside.   At least 1-dozen warbler spp., 
which included multiples of Blackpoll & Canada, both typical of later-parts of 
spring migration… with a scattering of others that may be a bit earlier in 
arriving - such as Nashville.  And there were still some boreal-breeders among 
the warblers, in addition to Blackpolls, some Cape May & Bay-breasted as well 
as Tennessee in several places / parks.

—
Saturday, 5/23 - A changeover to southerly winds, with some light showers also 
pushing up from N.J. & Pennsylvania in the early evening of Friday.  Plenty of 
migration happened - and plenty of that went on past Manhattan & perhaps on 
thru N.J. and points west, as well as overflight, neither especially new or 
uncommon. Some additional exodus took place, & yet some birds were still 
lingering on - case in point, a Yellow-breasted Chat at the Central Park 
Ramble.  Also, I paid a visit to Bryant Park in midtown & there, in 35 minutes, 
saw: E. Towhee (male & female), Gray Catbirds (5, including 4 all in one area), 
Hermit Thrush (now quite late for N.Y. City), Swamp Sparrow, White-throated 
Sparrow (minimum of ten, with up to 6 seen at one time when some came out for 
crumbs along with Passer domesticus ‘gangs’), and 3 warbler species, a 

[nysbirds-l] Liberty Loop Trail, Wallkill River NWR confirmed breeders including cranes in NJ

[Andrew Block]

Hi all,
Spent from 5pm to 9:30pm looking for rails and trying to see what the cranes 
were up to.  No luck on the Soras or Kings (if they are still breeding here), 
but did have a Virginia briefly call during the day.  I wonder if the rails 
there start calling at 10pm like they do in CT?  I wonder because I certainly 
didn't hear them before I left.  The cranes do seem to be on a nest since I saw 
the female acting as though she was on one but it was hard to see the nest 
behind the plants.  She was acting like she was turning eggs and then she sat 
down.  The male was by himself about 300-400ft away.  I guess that would be 
confirmed breeding then.  I observed the male for most of the afternoon and 
evening and he never ventured near the nest site nor did the female come off 
the nest site.  Interesting.  
Also seen as confirmed even though just south in NJ were two families of 
Mallards, two Canada Geese families, two Pied-billed Grebe families and two 
Wood Duck families.  Many pairs of Common Gallinules were also seen as well as 
a Least Bittern.  After dark I had a Big Brown Bat and Hoary Bat (a new species 
for me).
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist
20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3
Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 
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