[nysbirds-l] Angus Wilson's Pelagic Bird Workshop at Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave, Baldwin, N.Y., 11510-3289, on Feb.12, 2011, from 2:45- 4:45 P.M.
Parking for the above might be a problem, if you try to use the p/lot right behind the library. It is fairly small, and also services a bowling alley, as well as other stores. There is more than adequate parking in the 2 public lots behind the Firehouse, which is located across from the library, on the w/s of Grand Ave. (between Sunrise Highway and Merrick Rd.). Grand Ave. is quite a busy thoroughfare , but there are traffic control devices on either side of the street, that will stop all oncoming vehicles, to allow for safe passage. Any questions, please contact me offline. Cheers, Bob Adamo, for NYSOA -- 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 Buffalo Bird Report 10 Feb 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/11/2011 * NYBU1102.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- HOARY REDPOLL YELLOW-R. WARBLER RED-THROATED LOON RED-SHOULDERED HAWK Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Greater Scaup White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Little Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker American Robin Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/10/2011 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 10, 2011 [Note the phone line at the science museum is still out of order, apparently awaiting a service call] The Buffalo Bird Report 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 February 3 through February 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HOARY REDPOLL, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, RED-THROATED LOON and RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. February 5 at a feeder in the Niagara County Town of Wilson, a solitary HOARY REDPOLL. In the Town of Orchard Park, a YELLOW-R. WARBLER continues at a suet feeder with an uncommon in winter NORTHERN FLICKER. Also in Orchard Park, 2 PINE SISKINS with a flock of AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. February 5 and 6 at the mouth of the Niagara River off Fort Niagara State Park, 23 RED-THROATED LOONS, over 200 WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS, HORNED GREBE and GLAUCOUS GULL. Rare in winter, RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in the Genesee County Town of Darien - a pair on Warner Road and a single on Mammot Road. PILEATED WOODPECKER and 52 AMERICAN ROBINS also in Darien. A good season for widespread SNOW BUNTINGS continues. The flock of over 1000 was reported again on Yougstown-Wilson Road near Fisk Road in Wilson, and in the Genesee County Town of Bethany, several flocks of up to 250 SNOW BUNTINGS on McLernon Road. A few LAPLAND LONGSPURS usually found among the SNOW BUNTINGS. Just east of the BOS region [I believe], at Black Creek bridge in East Bethany, a good winter count of 7 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS with AMER. TREE SPARROWS and WHITE-thr. SPARROWS. February 6, SHORT-EARED OWL and NORTHERN SHRIKE still on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, just north of the Iroquois Refuge. Recent reports from the Dunkirk Harbor winter oasis - PIED- BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, EARED GREBE, TUNDRA SWAN, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, RUDDY DUCK, first winter LITTLE GULL, ICELAND GULL and up to 9 BALD EAGLES. And from the upper Niagara River - a pair of adult BALD EAGLES on Strawberry Island, GREAT BLUE HERONS at Motor Island, several hundred TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State Park, and thousands of waterfowl, primarily GREATER SCAUP, on the east river branch between Grand Island and Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 17. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - 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] Coastal Brooklyn
Walked along the SW coast of Brooklyn this morning, from the Narrows to Gravesend Bay. Highlights: two drake/one hen Common goldeneye and a substantial raft of Greater scaup. Bufflehead, Red-breasted merganser, American black duck, and lots of Brant and Ring-billed gull also noted. Matthew Brooklyn http://matthewwills.com/ -- 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] Hudson-Mohawk Birdline
This is a summary of the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline reports for the week ending February 9, 2011. Report your sightings in New York's Hudson-Mohawk Region to birdl...@hmbc.net Forty-one species were reported this week. Best birds of the week: NORTHERN SHRIKE: Five Rivers 2/8. SNOW BUNTING: Millerton* 2/4; Brunswick 2/7 (40-50). WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL: Saratoga 2/5 - 2/7. Other notable reports: Common Goldeneye: Green Island 2/5 (30+); Cohoes 2/5 (5+). Wild Turkey: Austerlitz 2/2; Colonie 2/5 (4); Lake George 2/7 (3); East Greenbush 2/8 (14). Bald Eagle: Saratoga Lake 2/5 (2); Colonie 2/6; Troy 2/8 (3). Sharp-shinned Hawk: Troy 2/7. Cooper's Hawk: Colonie 2/4. Peregrine Falcon: Green Island 2/5 (2). Barred Owl: Colonie 2/4). Common Raven: Lake George 2/7. Horned Lark: Millerton* 2/4; Brunswick 2/7 (2). Brown Creeper: Austerlitz 2/2. Carolina Wren: Colonie 2/5, 2/6, New Baltimore (daily) Northern Mockingbird: Saratoga 2/3; Schenectady 2/5. Purple Finch: Austerlitz 2/2 (3). Common Redpoll: Austerlitz 2/2(2); Glenville 2/7 (10). *Millerton is just outside region 8 in Dutchess County. Thanks to: Phil Whitney (Birdline compiler), Steve Abrahamsen (Saratoga 2/3), Alan French (Glenville), Betty Grindrod (Millerton), Nancy Kern (Austerlitz), Heidi Klinowski (Troy 2/7), Eric Krantz (Lake George), Bill Lee (Green Island, Cohoes), Curt Morgan (Troy 2/8), Bud Nevins (Five Rivers), Ellen Pemrick (Colonie 2/4), Bob Ramonowski (Schenectady), Beth Reinke (Colonie 2/4, 2/6), Marlene Vidibor (Ghent),Tom Williams (Colonie 2/5) and 2 anonymous reports (Saratoga 2/7, Saratoga Lake). -- 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] Merlin - Coxsackie
At noon today, I found a MERLIN perched on a tall willow near the intersection of Farm to Market and Johnny Cake Road (quaint names, eh?) in Coxsackie, The Greene County. It flew off in an unknown direction while I wasn't looking. I'll post a photo on hm birds website. There was also a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in a hedgerow across from Red's Restaurant on 9-W, also Coxsackie. Rich Guthrie gael...@capital.net -- 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] 50+ Black Vultures, Dutchess County
Having seen groups of five to twelve Black Vultures throughout the winter here in southern Dutchess Co., had to wonder where they might be roosting. A phone call yesterday afternoon reporting a flock of "big black birds" in trees and on a home roof lead Barbara and I to a residential area of Wappinger Falls to find over 50 BLVU and 6 TUVU roosting in pine trees. We arrived about 4:55PM at the site to see a few stragglers continuing to come in to the roost. They filled the four to five pines making it difficult for an accurate count but there were conservatively fifty BLVU there as seen from Namoth Rd. I remember when a single sighting of a black was noteworthy in the summer! The location is near the intersection of Pye Lane and Rock Rd, between Pye Lane and Namoth Rd to the north in the Town of Wappinger. If visiting this site please be respectful of the residents by not blocking driveways nor trespassing. Allan Michelin Wappinger Falls, NY -- 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] 50+ Black Vultures, Dutchess County
Having seen groups of five to twelve Black Vultures throughout the winter here in southern Dutchess Co., had to wonder where they might be roosting. A phone call yesterday afternoon reporting a flock of big black birds in trees and on a home roof lead Barbara and I to a residential area of Wappinger Falls to find over 50 BLVU and 6 TUVU roosting in pine trees. We arrived about 4:55PM at the site to see a few stragglers continuing to come in to the roost. They filled the four to five pines making it difficult for an accurate count but there were conservatively fifty BLVU there as seen from Namoth Rd. I remember when a single sighting of a black was noteworthy in the summer! The location is near the intersection of Pye Lane and Rock Rd, between Pye Lane and Namoth Rd to the north in the Town of Wappinger. If visiting this site please be respectful of the residents by not blocking driveways nor trespassing. Allan Michelin Wappinger Falls, NY -- 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] Merlin - Coxsackie
At noon today, I found a MERLIN perched on a tall willow near the intersection of Farm to Market and Johnny Cake Road (quaint names, eh?) in Coxsackie, The Greene County. It flew off in an unknown direction while I wasn't looking. I'll post a photo on hm birds website. There was also a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in a hedgerow across from Red's Restaurant on 9-W, also Coxsackie. Rich Guthrie gael...@capital.net -- 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] Hudson-Mohawk Birdline
This is a summary of the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline reports for the week ending February 9, 2011. Report your sightings in New York's Hudson-Mohawk Region to birdl...@hmbc.net Forty-one species were reported this week. Best birds of the week: NORTHERN SHRIKE: Five Rivers 2/8. SNOW BUNTING: Millerton* 2/4; Brunswick 2/7 (40-50). WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL: Saratoga 2/5 - 2/7. Other notable reports: Common Goldeneye: Green Island 2/5 (30+); Cohoes 2/5 (5+). Wild Turkey: Austerlitz 2/2; Colonie 2/5 (4); Lake George 2/7 (3); East Greenbush 2/8 (14). Bald Eagle: Saratoga Lake 2/5 (2); Colonie 2/6; Troy 2/8 (3). Sharp-shinned Hawk: Troy 2/7. Cooper's Hawk: Colonie 2/4. Peregrine Falcon: Green Island 2/5 (2). Barred Owl: Colonie 2/4). Common Raven: Lake George 2/7. Horned Lark: Millerton* 2/4; Brunswick 2/7 (2). Brown Creeper: Austerlitz 2/2. Carolina Wren: Colonie 2/5, 2/6, New Baltimore (daily) Northern Mockingbird: Saratoga 2/3; Schenectady 2/5. Purple Finch: Austerlitz 2/2 (3). Common Redpoll: Austerlitz 2/2(2); Glenville 2/7 (10). *Millerton is just outside region 8 in Dutchess County. Thanks to: Phil Whitney (Birdline compiler), Steve Abrahamsen (Saratoga 2/3), Alan French (Glenville), Betty Grindrod (Millerton), Nancy Kern (Austerlitz), Heidi Klinowski (Troy 2/7), Eric Krantz (Lake George), Bill Lee (Green Island, Cohoes), Curt Morgan (Troy 2/8), Bud Nevins (Five Rivers), Ellen Pemrick (Colonie 2/4), Bob Ramonowski (Schenectady), Beth Reinke (Colonie 2/4, 2/6), Marlene Vidibor (Ghent),Tom Williams (Colonie 2/5) and 2 anonymous reports (Saratoga 2/7, Saratoga Lake). -- 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] Coastal Brooklyn
Walked along the SW coast of Brooklyn this morning, from the Narrows to Gravesend Bay. Highlights: two drake/one hen Common goldeneye and a substantial raft of Greater scaup. Bufflehead, Red-breasted merganser, American black duck, and lots of Brant and Ring-billed gull also noted. Matthew Brooklyn http://matthewwills.com/ -- 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 Buffalo Bird Report 10 Feb 2011
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 02/11/2011 * NYBU1102.10 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- HOARY REDPOLL YELLOW-R. WARBLER RED-THROATED LOON RED-SHOULDERED HAWK Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Great Blue Heron Tundra Swan Greater Scaup White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Little Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Short-eared Owl Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker American Robin Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Pine Siskin American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 02/10/2011 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, February 10, 2011 [Note the phone line at the science museum is still out of order, apparently awaiting a service call] The Buffalo Bird Report 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 February 3 through February 10 from the Niagara Frontier Region include HOARY REDPOLL, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, RED-THROATED LOON and RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. February 5 at a feeder in the Niagara County Town of Wilson, a solitary HOARY REDPOLL. In the Town of Orchard Park, a YELLOW-R. WARBLER continues at a suet feeder with an uncommon in winter NORTHERN FLICKER. Also in Orchard Park, 2 PINE SISKINS with a flock of AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES. February 5 and 6 at the mouth of the Niagara River off Fort Niagara State Park, 23 RED-THROATED LOONS, over 200 WHITE- WINGED SCOTERS, HORNED GREBE and GLAUCOUS GULL. Rare in winter, RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS in the Genesee County Town of Darien - a pair on Warner Road and a single on Mammot Road. PILEATED WOODPECKER and 52 AMERICAN ROBINS also in Darien. A good season for widespread SNOW BUNTINGS continues. The flock of over 1000 was reported again on Yougstown-Wilson Road near Fisk Road in Wilson, and in the Genesee County Town of Bethany, several flocks of up to 250 SNOW BUNTINGS on McLernon Road. A few LAPLAND LONGSPURS usually found among the SNOW BUNTINGS. Just east of the BOS region [I believe], at Black Creek bridge in East Bethany, a good winter count of 7 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS with AMER. TREE SPARROWS and WHITE-thr. SPARROWS. February 6, SHORT-EARED OWL and NORTHERN SHRIKE still on Posson Road in the Town of Shelby, just north of the Iroquois Refuge. Recent reports from the Dunkirk Harbor winter oasis - PIED- BILLED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, RED-NECKED GREBE, EARED GREBE, TUNDRA SWAN, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, RUDDY DUCK, first winter LITTLE GULL, ICELAND GULL and up to 9 BALD EAGLES. And from the upper Niagara River - a pair of adult BALD EAGLES on Strawberry Island, GREAT BLUE HERONS at Motor Island, several hundred TUNDRA SWANS off Beaver Island State Park, and thousands of waterfowl, primarily GREATER SCAUP, on the east river branch between Grand Island and Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, February 17. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - 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] Angus Wilson's Pelagic Bird Workshop at Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave, Baldwin, N.Y., 11510-3289, on Feb.12, 2011, from 2:45- 4:45 P.M.
Parking for the above might be a problem, if you try to use the p/lot right behind the library. It is fairly small, and also services a bowling alley, as well as other stores. There is more than adequate parking in the 2 public lots behind the Firehouse, which is located across from the library, on the w/s of Grand Ave. (between Sunrise Highway and Merrick Rd.). Grand Ave. is quite a busy thoroughfare , but there are traffic control devices on either side of the street, that will stop all oncoming vehicles, to allow for safe passage. Any questions, please contact me offline. Cheers, Bob Adamo, for NYSOA -- 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/ --
