[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Oct. 5, 2020: 13 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Tennessee, Cape May, Yellow, & Prairie Warblers
Central Park NYC Monday, October 5, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Thirteen Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Cape May, Yellow, & Prairie Warblers, Chipping Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos. Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 12 Mourning Dove - 10 Chimney Swift - 2 Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Cooper's Hawk - flyover Turtle Pond Dock Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Great Lawn Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Sparrow Rock Northern Flicker - a dozen early-morning migrants (RDC) Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Locust Grove, Strawberry Fields) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 red-eyed Vireo - 1 turtle Pond Dock (RDC - early) Blue Jay - around a dozen American Crow - flyover flock of 6 heading North over Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - 10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 20 White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 10 House Wren - 2 (Ramble & Shakespeare Garden) Carolina Wren - 4 Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 7 Cedar Waxwing - 2 hatch-year birds Shakespeare Garden (RDC - early) House Finch - 5 Strawberry Fields American Goldfinch - 3 Sparrow Rock Eastern Towhee - 2 (Locust Grove, Shakespeare Garden) Chipping Sparrow - 5 Song Sparrow - 2 Turtle Pond Swamp Sparrow - 3 Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - a dozen Dark-eyed Junco - 3 Pinetum Common Grackle - around 10 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 Strawberry Fields Tennessee Warbler - 1 above Delacorte Theater Common Yellowthroat - 1 Strawberry Fields American Redstart - 2 (Belvedere Castle & Maintenance Field) Cape May Warbler - 4 Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 4 Yellow Warbler - 1 pale & greenish bird (northern subspecies) at Ladies Pavilion Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Deck of Belvedere Castle Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7 Pine Warbler - Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Prairie Warbler - 1 Strawberry fields Northern Cardinal - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 Oak Bridge -- Late this afternoon Bob & I saw a flock of 16 Wild Turkeys on the lawn at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum in Pelham Bay Park. A quick visit to Turtle Cove yielded both Great and Snowy Egrets, a Greater Yellowlegs, a Blue-headed Vireo, a flock of American Goldfinches, Lincoln's and Swamp Sparrows, Common Yellowthroats, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Oct. 5, 2020: 13 Species of Wood Warblers incl. Tennessee, Cape May, Yellow, & Prairie Warblers
Central Park NYC Monday, October 5, 2020 OBS: Robert DeCandido PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Thirteen Species of Wood Warblers including Tennessee, Cape May, Yellow, & Prairie Warblers, Chipping Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos. Canada Goose - 8 Mallard - 12 Mourning Dove - 10 Chimney Swift - 2 Herring Gull - 5 flyovers Cooper's Hawk - flyover Turtle Pond Dock Red-tailed Hawk - flyover Great Lawn Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Sparrow Rock Northern Flicker - a dozen early-morning migrants (RDC) Eastern Phoebe - 2 (Locust Grove, Strawberry Fields) Blue-headed Vireo - 3 red-eyed Vireo - 1 turtle Pond Dock (RDC - early) Blue Jay - around a dozen American Crow - flyover flock of 6 heading North over Turtle Pond Tufted Titmouse - 10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 20 White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 Shakespeare Garden Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 10 House Wren - 2 (Ramble & Shakespeare Garden) Carolina Wren - 4 Swainson's Thrush - 3 American Robin - around 20 Gray Catbird - 7 Cedar Waxwing - 2 hatch-year birds Shakespeare Garden (RDC - early) House Finch - 5 Strawberry Fields American Goldfinch - 3 Sparrow Rock Eastern Towhee - 2 (Locust Grove, Shakespeare Garden) Chipping Sparrow - 5 Song Sparrow - 2 Turtle Pond Swamp Sparrow - 3 Turtle Pond White-throated Sparrow - a dozen Dark-eyed Junco - 3 Pinetum Common Grackle - around 10 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 Strawberry Fields Tennessee Warbler - 1 above Delacorte Theater Common Yellowthroat - 1 Strawberry Fields American Redstart - 2 (Belvedere Castle & Maintenance Field) Cape May Warbler - 4 Northern Parula - 3 Magnolia Warbler - 4 Yellow Warbler - 1 pale & greenish bird (northern subspecies) at Ladies Pavilion Blackpoll Warbler - 1 Deck of Belvedere Castle Black-throated Blue Warbler - 7 Pine Warbler - Shakespeare Garden Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Prairie Warbler - 1 Strawberry fields Northern Cardinal - 5 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 Oak Bridge -- Late this afternoon Bob & I saw a flock of 16 Wild Turkeys on the lawn at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum in Pelham Bay Park. A quick visit to Turtle Cove yielded both Great and Snowy Egrets, a Greater Yellowlegs, a Blue-headed Vireo, a flock of American Goldfinches, Lincoln's and Swamp Sparrows, Common Yellowthroats, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Syracuse area RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 05, 2020 * NYSY 10. 05. 20 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): September 28, 2020 to October 05, 2020 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison & Cortland compiled: October 05 AT 7:30 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #723 Monday October 05, 2020 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 28, 2020 Highlights: --- BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON BRANT CACKLING GOOSE EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER RUDDY TURNSTONE HUDSONIAN GODWIT WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL PARASITIC JAEGER YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER PHILADELPHIA VIREO GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER LINCOLN’S SPARROW LAPLAND LONGSPUR Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 9/29: An EURASIAN WIGEON was seen along the Wildlife Drive. A HUCSONIAN GODWIT was at the Visitor’s Center. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found at VanDyne Spoor Road. A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON wa seen at Marten’s Tract. 10/1: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was found along the Wildlife Drive. 10/3: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at VanDyne Spoor Road. 11 Warbler species including an ORANGE-CROWNED were seen on Howland Island. 9 Shorebird species includingSTILT SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen at the Visitor’s Center. A LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was seen along the Wildlife Drive. Cayuga County 9/30: A PARASITIC JAEGER was seen from West Barrier Bar in Fair Haven. 10/1: A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a RUDDY TURNSTONE were seen from West Barrier Bar in Fair Haven. 10/2: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW and 130 BRANT were seen from West Barrier Bar in Fair Haven. 10/4: 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen on the west break wall in Fair Haven State park. Onondaga County 9/29: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse. 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were seen from the West Shore Trail on Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. 9/30: A BLAK-BELLIED PLOVER was seen at Jamesville Beach County Park. 10/2: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Jamesville Beach State Park. An AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was seen at the “Marshy Spits” which in the south west area of Onondaga Lake. A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen in Oakwood Cemetery. 10/3: 10 RED CROSSBILLS continue in the Morgan Hill State Forest on Shakham Road near the Cortland County line. A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen in the Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. A CACKLING GOOSE was seen at Oneida Shores County Park in Brewerton. also seen here were 32 BRANT. 10/4: A DUNLIN was seen at Oneida shores County Park. A BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was seen at the Marshy spits area on Onondaga Lake. Oswego County 9/28: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen on Baum Road is Hastings. 9/29: 9 HUDSONIAN GODWITS were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet on Lake Ontario. as of today there were still 2 presents. 10/1: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW was seen on Baum Road in Hastings. 10/2: 8 BRANT were seen from Derby Hill Hawk Watch. 10/3: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen on Baum Road in Hastings. An AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were seen at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario. Oneida County 9/28: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen at Kirkland Town Park. 10/1: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW was seen at Spring Farms Nature Sanctuary south of Clinton. 10/4: A late BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER was seen at Spring Farms Nature Center south of Clinton. Herkimer County 9/28: An early RUSTY BLACKBIRD was seen on the Military Road north of Dolgeville. 10/1: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and a LINCOLN’S SPARROW were seen at Salinbury Corners north of Dolgeville. End Report Joseph Brin Baldwinsville NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Syracuse area RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 05, 2020 * NYSY 10. 05. 20 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): September 28, 2020 to October 05, 2020 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison & Cortland compiled: October 05 AT 7:30 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #723 Monday October 05, 2020 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 28, 2020 Highlights: --- BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON BRANT CACKLING GOOSE EURASIAN WIGEON BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER RUDDY TURNSTONE HUDSONIAN GODWIT WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL PARASITIC JAEGER YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER PHILADELPHIA VIREO GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER LINCOLN’S SPARROW LAPLAND LONGSPUR Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 9/29: An EURASIAN WIGEON was seen along the Wildlife Drive. A HUCSONIAN GODWIT was at the Visitor’s Center. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found at VanDyne Spoor Road. A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON wa seen at Marten’s Tract. 10/1: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was found along the Wildlife Drive. 10/3: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at VanDyne Spoor Road. 11 Warbler species including an ORANGE-CROWNED were seen on Howland Island. 9 Shorebird species includingSTILT SANDPIPER, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen at the Visitor’s Center. A LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was seen along the Wildlife Drive. Cayuga County 9/30: A PARASITIC JAEGER was seen from West Barrier Bar in Fair Haven. 10/1: A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a RUDDY TURNSTONE were seen from West Barrier Bar in Fair Haven. 10/2: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW and 130 BRANT were seen from West Barrier Bar in Fair Haven. 10/4: 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen on the west break wall in Fair Haven State park. Onondaga County 9/29: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse. 2 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES were seen from the West Shore Trail on Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. 9/30: A BLAK-BELLIED PLOVER was seen at Jamesville Beach County Park. 10/2: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Jamesville Beach State Park. An AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was seen at the “Marshy Spits” which in the south west area of Onondaga Lake. A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen in Oakwood Cemetery. 10/3: 10 RED CROSSBILLS continue in the Morgan Hill State Forest on Shakham Road near the Cortland County line. A GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH was seen in the Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. A CACKLING GOOSE was seen at Oneida Shores County Park in Brewerton. also seen here were 32 BRANT. 10/4: A DUNLIN was seen at Oneida shores County Park. A BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was seen at the Marshy spits area on Onondaga Lake. Oswego County 9/28: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen on Baum Road is Hastings. 9/29: 9 HUDSONIAN GODWITS were seen at the Sandy Pond Outlet on Lake Ontario. as of today there were still 2 presents. 10/1: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW was seen on Baum Road in Hastings. 10/2: 8 BRANT were seen from Derby Hill Hawk Watch. 10/3: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen on Baum Road in Hastings. An AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were seen at the outlet of Sandy Pond on Lake Ontario. Oneida County 9/28: A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen at Kirkland Town Park. 10/1: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW was seen at Spring Farms Nature Sanctuary south of Clinton. 10/4: A late BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER was seen at Spring Farms Nature Center south of Clinton. Herkimer County 9/28: An early RUSTY BLACKBIRD was seen on the Military Road north of Dolgeville. 10/1: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and a LINCOLN’S SPARROW were seen at Salinbury Corners north of Dolgeville. End Report Joseph Brin Baldwinsville NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [nysbirds-l] 7th Annual Seatuck Long Island Birding Challenge
We inadvertently left out the names of the winning team members. Pteam Ptarmigeddon: Tim Dunn, John Gluth, Pete Morris, and Taylor Sturm. Contrary to some rumors floating around, the omission was not a further example of malfeasance on the part of the Outlaws, now dethroned as the Masked Tityras! Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 4:34 PM Shaibal Mitra wrote: > The Seatuck Long Island Birding Challenge was conducted on Saturday, 26 > September, for the seventh year. We thank Enrico Nardone, Stephane > Perreault and others at Seatuck for the effort and care they devoted to > revising and refining the rules to ensure participants’ fun and safety in > this strange pandemic period. > > The rules changes driven by covid concerns included a requirement that > each team restrict its activities to a single county (or in the case of > sprawling Suffolk County, to either the four western towns or the more > easterly towns), but also relaxed the requirement for team members to > travel and bird together. In combination, this probably improved overall > coverage of the island and yielded a collective tally of 194 species, 10 > more than the previous highest annual total for this count. This > achievement is even more notable for having been made on a signiciantly > later data and on a much less active migration day than that of the > previous high tally. Also notable was our failure, for the first time in > seven challenges, to add any new species to the cumulative species list, > which still stands at 235. This is further evidence of the overall > thoroughness of the teams this year in detecting uncommon, hard to find, > and localized species, even in the absence of rarities. > > We had 8 teams in the field, with a total of 29 participants, and each of > the five designated areas was represented. As noted above, it was not a > major flight day, but the weather was mostly very benign all day long, > without heavy winds or other impediments to birding effort. It was 63-75 F, > overcast with good visibility in most places early, then warming up with > sun. The biggest issue was patchy fog in the morning that reduced > visibility for some. > > Area champions were: > Brooklyn: Rails Against the Machine (Shane Blodgett, Rob Jett, Heydi > Lopes, Tom Preston, and Mike Yuan) coming in at 108. > > Queens: Ladybyrders (Mary Normandia, Lisa Scheppke, Amy Simmons, Meryl > Ackley, and Phil Ribilow), tallying 111 species. > > Eastern Suffolk: Masked Tityras (Patricia Lindsay, Shai Mitra, Mike Cooper > and Doug Futuyma) coming in with 130. Three additional teams covered > Eastern Suffolk: The Bushwackers (Richard Gostic and Bob McGrath), Savage > Trackers (Stephen and Bob Savage), and The TWIN ROSE breasted Grosbeaks > (Raina Angelier, Cayla, Iris and Craig Rosenhagen). > > And finally, the two leading teams achieved totals only two species apart: > > The Classic Birders (Tim Healy, Matt Klein, Ryan Mandelbaum, and Stephane > Perreault), covering Nassau, was the runner-up team with 139 species. > > Pteam Ptarmigeddon covered Western Suffolk and came in overall first at > 141, wresting back the Twitchers Trophy from the Outlaws (whose > misdemeanors had resulted in their dispersion into different teams). The > Pteam has competed in the Challenge with the same members every year, won > the trophy the first three years, and is now back on top. > > Every single team had a least one “save,” a species not recorded by any > other team. Tied for third were Pteam Ptarmigeddon and The Classic Birders, > with 5 saves each. Second place went to Ladybyrders with 6 saves. The > winner of the informal Hunters’ Hoard award (a cache of canned spinach, > creamed corn, cream of mushroom soup, cling peaches, sardines, and Fancy > Feast ) was the Masked Tityras, with 11 saves! > > Photos and more information about the event will be updated on the Seatuck > website shortly: > > https://seatuck.org/birding-challenge/ > > We hope to see everybody back out in the field next year, under less > stressful circumstances. > > Shai Mitra & Patricia Lindsay > Bay Shore > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm > 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your
Re: [nysbirds-l] 7th Annual Seatuck Long Island Birding Challenge
We inadvertently left out the names of the winning team members. Pteam Ptarmigeddon: Tim Dunn, John Gluth, Pete Morris, and Taylor Sturm. Contrary to some rumors floating around, the omission was not a further example of malfeasance on the part of the Outlaws, now dethroned as the Masked Tityras! Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 4:34 PM Shaibal Mitra wrote: > The Seatuck Long Island Birding Challenge was conducted on Saturday, 26 > September, for the seventh year. We thank Enrico Nardone, Stephane > Perreault and others at Seatuck for the effort and care they devoted to > revising and refining the rules to ensure participants’ fun and safety in > this strange pandemic period. > > The rules changes driven by covid concerns included a requirement that > each team restrict its activities to a single county (or in the case of > sprawling Suffolk County, to either the four western towns or the more > easterly towns), but also relaxed the requirement for team members to > travel and bird together. In combination, this probably improved overall > coverage of the island and yielded a collective tally of 194 species, 10 > more than the previous highest annual total for this count. This > achievement is even more notable for having been made on a signiciantly > later data and on a much less active migration day than that of the > previous high tally. Also notable was our failure, for the first time in > seven challenges, to add any new species to the cumulative species list, > which still stands at 235. This is further evidence of the overall > thoroughness of the teams this year in detecting uncommon, hard to find, > and localized species, even in the absence of rarities. > > We had 8 teams in the field, with a total of 29 participants, and each of > the five designated areas was represented. As noted above, it was not a > major flight day, but the weather was mostly very benign all day long, > without heavy winds or other impediments to birding effort. It was 63-75 F, > overcast with good visibility in most places early, then warming up with > sun. The biggest issue was patchy fog in the morning that reduced > visibility for some. > > Area champions were: > Brooklyn: Rails Against the Machine (Shane Blodgett, Rob Jett, Heydi > Lopes, Tom Preston, and Mike Yuan) coming in at 108. > > Queens: Ladybyrders (Mary Normandia, Lisa Scheppke, Amy Simmons, Meryl > Ackley, and Phil Ribilow), tallying 111 species. > > Eastern Suffolk: Masked Tityras (Patricia Lindsay, Shai Mitra, Mike Cooper > and Doug Futuyma) coming in with 130. Three additional teams covered > Eastern Suffolk: The Bushwackers (Richard Gostic and Bob McGrath), Savage > Trackers (Stephen and Bob Savage), and The TWIN ROSE breasted Grosbeaks > (Raina Angelier, Cayla, Iris and Craig Rosenhagen). > > And finally, the two leading teams achieved totals only two species apart: > > The Classic Birders (Tim Healy, Matt Klein, Ryan Mandelbaum, and Stephane > Perreault), covering Nassau, was the runner-up team with 139 species. > > Pteam Ptarmigeddon covered Western Suffolk and came in overall first at > 141, wresting back the Twitchers Trophy from the Outlaws (whose > misdemeanors had resulted in their dispersion into different teams). The > Pteam has competed in the Challenge with the same members every year, won > the trophy the first three years, and is now back on top. > > Every single team had a least one “save,” a species not recorded by any > other team. Tied for third were Pteam Ptarmigeddon and The Classic Birders, > with 5 saves each. Second place went to Ladybyrders with 6 saves. The > winner of the informal Hunters’ Hoard award (a cache of canned spinach, > creamed corn, cream of mushroom soup, cling peaches, sardines, and Fancy > Feast ) was the Masked Tityras, with 11 saves! > > Photos and more information about the event will be updated on the Seatuck > website shortly: > > https://seatuck.org/birding-challenge/ > > We hope to see everybody back out in the field next year, under less > stressful circumstances. > > Shai Mitra & Patricia Lindsay > Bay Shore > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm > 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your
[nysbirds-l] Western Kingbird YES Governors Island NYC
Western Kingbird continues at west side of Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York County. (40.6912553, -74.0168643) Ferry tickets are available online to be reserved in advance (same day OK). Thanks to Gabriel Willow for finding (maybe refinding?) this bird yesterday, and to Dmitriy Aronov for refinding it earlier today. Adrian Burke NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Western Kingbird YES Governors Island NYC
Western Kingbird continues at west side of Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York County. (40.6912553, -74.0168643) Ferry tickets are available online to be reserved in advance (same day OK). Thanks to Gabriel Willow for finding (maybe refinding?) this bird yesterday, and to Dmitriy Aronov for refinding it earlier today. Adrian Burke NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
