[nysbirds-l] Fwd: [JerseyBirds] Hooded crow

2011-07-18 Thread Ardith Bondi 
For anyone who is interested, I am forwarding this post from the 
Jerseybirds list. The location is on Long Beach Island below Barnegat Light.


Ardith Bondi

 Original Message 
Subject: [JerseyBirds] Hooded crow
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:18:46 -0400
From: Judson 
Reply-To: Judson 
To: jerseybi...@princeton.edu

I missed the bird this am, but our friends at the same area saw whAt 
they described as a silver backed crow with other crows around their 
garbage.  They also said it sounded different than the other crows.  The 
location is in the area of the border of North Beach and Harvey Cedars 
on lbi


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[nysbirds-l] Wallkill River NWR birds: 3 out of 4 rarites seen

2011-07-18 Thread Andrew Block 
7/17/11 - Wallkill River NWR, Sussex, NJ

Time:  7:15am to 3pm
Observers:  Andrew Block

25+ Great Blue Herons
3 Great Egrets
1 Green Heron
1 WHITE IBIS (juv. seen well after scared up by idiot in very low flying Cessna)
2 Turkey Vultures
several Canada Geese
several Wood Ducks
several Mallards
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Wild Turkey
1 SANDHILL CRANE (adult, covered in rust stains)
several Killdeer
4+ Greater Yellowlegs
several Least Sandpipers
3 Mourning Doves
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Willow Flycatcher
3+ Eastern Phoebes
2 Great Crested Flycatchers
several Eastern Kingbirds
1 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Blue Jays
5+ American Crows
many Tree, Barn, and Bank Swallows
2 Tufted Titmice
1 House Wren
1 SEDGE WREN (adult singing)
2 Eastern Bluebirds
4+ Wood Thrushes
several American Robins
many Gray Catbirds
several Northern Mockingbirds
several Cedar Waxwings
4 Yellow Warblers
1 Northern Waterthrush
3+ Common Yellowthroats
2 Scarlet Tanager
1 Eastern Towhee
several Chipping Sparrows
2 Field Sparrows
3+ Savannah Sparrows
several Song Sparrows
6+ Swamp Sparrows
3 Northern Cardinals
many Indigo Buntings
7+ Bobolinks
several Red-winged Blackbirds
3 Baltimore Orioles
many American Goldfinches

For anyone who didn't get where the goodies were seen the crane and ibis were 
in 
the first impoundment on the right in the NW corner on the north side of Oil 
City Rd.  The crane was very vocal at first, probably stressed from the 
recording some people were playing and then flew up and NW over to the field in 
the back and on the left with the sod and squash growing in it.  It also came 
onto the road for awhile.  The ibis was elusive but flew up with everything 
else 
when some moron flew about 20ft above the road in a Cessna and scared 
everything.  The wren was along the NW part of the Liberty Loop Trail about 50 
feet or so from the trail out in the cattails.  He was easy to see even without 
binos and was singing well.  To get there walk along the trail til you get to 
a short telephone poll covered completely in vines that is on the north side 
of OCR and look out into the southern marsh from there.  He moved around a bit 
but usually came back to the area.  He became less vocal as the the morning got 
hotter.  Thanks again to John Haas for helping me once again.

Andrew
 Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist/Wildlife Biologist
37 Tanglewylde Avenue
Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131
Phone: 914-337-1229; Fax: 914-771-8036
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FW: [nysbirds-l] Least Bittern(s)? in Massapequa Preserve

2011-07-18 Thread David Klauber 

Thanks to John's post I sat at the bench at the south end from 6:30 to 7:30 AM 
this morning, July 18. At 7:30 a Least Bittern flew briefly from the east side 
in a "C" pattern disappearing in an indented section on the east, about 1/2 - 
2/3 way to the north. I then tried walking around the pond, mostly an exercise 
in futility as the phrags have taken over most vantage points. There are some 
limited distant views of the east side through the woods from a path on the 
western side, but the best stratgey would probably be a patient wait at the 
bench on the southern end. There is access to the pond where Lakeshore Drive 
meets Park on the eastern side, easy to miss as it's only a wide dirt path. 
Also seen were 2 Chimney Swifts, Spotted Sandpiper, a Forster's Tern, and 
White-eyed Vireo as well as more expected species. Nice find, John, it's my 
first east of Jamaica Bay
 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:36:25 +
From: redk...@optonline.net
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Least Bittern(s)? in Massapequa Preserve
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu

On an after dinner walk this evening in the Massapequa Preserve I observed a 
least bittern in the pond north of the USGS Gauging Station (the 2nd pond north 
of Clark Boulevard). I was sitting on the bench that overlooks this small pond 
for a few minutes when a male least bittern flew out of the phragmites on the 
e/s/o the pond (about halfway up the pond) and flew north landing in the 
phragmites at the north end of the pond, in full view.  I watched it for about 
five minutes; at first it clung to a phrag stem but then moved down and to the 
right ending up out of sight, in the northeastern corner of the pond, screened 
behind a closer growth of phragmites.  I did not see it in that spot again. I 
sat for 45 minutes and as it was beginning to get dark I got up to leave when 
another (or the same?) least bittern flew across the pond from the western side 
of the pond to the eastern side, about halfway up the pond (landing at about 
the same spot the first bird left from). With the fading light I couldn't make 
out if it was a male or female.  Given the fact I never saw the first bird fly 
from the northeastern corner to the western side of the pond I think, but am 
not positive, it was a second least bittern.  
I intend to scope out the pond tomorrow evening in an effort to determine if 
there is a single bird or a pair 
Also had a beautiful view of five barn swallows perched on a single phragmites 
stem arching over the water John Turner

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FW: [nysbirds-l] Least Bittern(s)? in Massapequa Preserve

2011-07-18 Thread David Klauber 

Thanks to John's post I sat at the bench at the south end from 6:30 to 7:30 AM 
this morning, July 18. At 7:30 a Least Bittern flew briefly from the east side 
in a C pattern disappearing in an indented section on the east, about 1/2 - 
2/3 way to the north. I then tried walking around the pond, mostly an exercise 
in futility as the phrags have taken over most vantage points. There are some 
limited distant views of the east side through the woods from a path on the 
western side, but the best stratgey would probably be a patient wait at the 
bench on the southern end. There is access to the pond where Lakeshore Drive 
meets Park on the eastern side, easy to miss as it's only a wide dirt path. 
Also seen were 2 Chimney Swifts, Spotted Sandpiper, a Forster's Tern, and 
White-eyed Vireo as well as more expected species. Nice find, John, it's my 
first east of Jamaica Bay
 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:36:25 +
From: redk...@optonline.net
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Least Bittern(s)? in Massapequa Preserve
To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu

On an after dinner walk this evening in the Massapequa Preserve I observed a 
least bittern in the pond north of the USGS Gauging Station (the 2nd pond north 
of Clark Boulevard). I was sitting on the bench that overlooks this small pond 
for a few minutes when a male least bittern flew out of the phragmites on the 
e/s/o the pond (about halfway up the pond) and flew north landing in the 
phragmites at the north end of the pond, in full view.  I watched it for about 
five minutes; at first it clung to a phrag stem but then moved down and to the 
right ending up out of sight, in the northeastern corner of the pond, screened 
behind a closer growth of phragmites.  I did not see it in that spot again. I 
sat for 45 minutes and as it was beginning to get dark I got up to leave when 
another (or the same?) least bittern flew across the pond from the western side 
of the pond to the eastern side, about halfway up the pond (landing at about 
the same spot the first bird left from). With the fading light I couldn't make 
out if it was a male or female.  Given the fact I never saw the first bird fly 
from the northeastern corner to the western side of the pond I think, but am 
not positive, it was a second least bittern.  
I intend to scope out the pond tomorrow evening in an effort to determine if 
there is a single bird or a pair 
Also had a beautiful view of five barn swallows perched on a single phragmites 
stem arching over the water John Turner

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[nysbirds-l] Wallkill River NWR birds: 3 out of 4 rarites seen

2011-07-18 Thread Andrew Block 
7/17/11 - Wallkill River NWR, Sussex, NJ

Time:  7:15am to 3pm
Observers:  Andrew Block

25+ Great Blue Herons
3 Great Egrets
1 Green Heron
1 WHITE IBIS (juv. seen well after scared up by idiot in very low flying Cessna)
2 Turkey Vultures
several Canada Geese
several Wood Ducks
several Mallards
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Wild Turkey
1 SANDHILL CRANE (adult, covered in rust stains)
several Killdeer
4+ Greater Yellowlegs
several Least Sandpipers
3 Mourning Doves
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Willow Flycatcher
3+ Eastern Phoebes
2 Great Crested Flycatchers
several Eastern Kingbirds
1 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Blue Jays
5+ American Crows
many Tree, Barn, and Bank Swallows
2 Tufted Titmice
1 House Wren
1 SEDGE WREN (adult singing)
2 Eastern Bluebirds
4+ Wood Thrushes
several American Robins
many Gray Catbirds
several Northern Mockingbirds
several Cedar Waxwings
4 Yellow Warblers
1 Northern Waterthrush
3+ Common Yellowthroats
2 Scarlet Tanager
1 Eastern Towhee
several Chipping Sparrows
2 Field Sparrows
3+ Savannah Sparrows
several Song Sparrows
6+ Swamp Sparrows
3 Northern Cardinals
many Indigo Buntings
7+ Bobolinks
several Red-winged Blackbirds
3 Baltimore Orioles
many American Goldfinches

For anyone who didn't get where the goodies were seen the crane and ibis were 
in 
the first impoundment on the right in the NW corner on the north side of Oil 
City Rd.  The crane was very vocal at first, probably stressed from the 
recording some people were playing and then flew up and NW over to the field in 
the back and on the left with the sod and squash growing in it.  It also came 
onto the road for awhile.  The ibis was elusive but flew up with everything 
else 
when some moron flew about 20ft above the road in a Cessna and scared 
everything.  The wren was along the NW part of the Liberty Loop Trail about 50 
feet or so from the trail out in the cattails.  He was easy to see even without 
binos and was singing well.  To get there walk along the trail til you get to 
a short telephone poll covered completely in vines that is on the north side 
of OCR and look out into the southern marsh from there.  He moved around a bit 
but usually came back to the area.  He became less vocal as the the morning got 
hotter.  Thanks again to John Haas for helping me once again.

Andrew
 Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist/Wildlife Biologist
37 Tanglewylde Avenue
Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131
Phone: 914-337-1229; Fax: 914-771-8036
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