[nysbirds-l] Updated wheatear location from 2 PM this afternoon

[Benjamin Van Doren]

Hi all,

I think a couple posts today reflected a slightly changed location for the
wheatear, and Larry Trachtenberg sent me the following from 2 PM this
afternoon:

 Driving from the sand shed along the chain link fence, looking towards the
> track, there is a large rock pile before the large train maintenance shed.
> It was hopping up and down on the rocks and gravel in that area. It was
> further away than yesterday's location -- though we had good scope looks.


So this afternoon it was hanging out a bit further north than it was
yesterday and further north than was reflected in the Google Map I posted a
little while ago. Though, not by too much. So, to anyone who is trying for
it tomorrow, keep this in mind.

Benjamin Van Doren
White Plains, NY

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Re:[nysbirds-l] Wheatear Question

[Tom Fiore]

Re: the Northern Wheatear in Westchester Co.

It might sort of follow that anyone arriving early and finding the  
Northern Wheatear still present at Croton-Harmon Metro-North RR  
station's vicinity could attempt to post a report as early as they're  
able to for the others who would be most interested...


and as well, should NO one spot that bird in the first couple of hours  
of daylight Thursday... There is some migration taking place at this  
very hour.  After a while searching, a "negative" report is also a  
courtesy to many others that might consider a longer trip & so on.


Best of luck - hope it sticks another night & day.

Tom Fiore,
Manhattan


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RE: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear Question

[Robert Lewis]

Seeing it from a moving train?  That's quite a stretch. Virtually no chance.  
Once the train has stopped at the station?  Even less likely.  Get out and walk!

The area is very easy to find.  I posted these coordinates yesterday (the green 
arrow if you feed this into Google maps).

41.184524, -73.879591 

Croton Harmon Station is hard to miss.  Just exit off route 9/9A.  Google maps.

Just go south down the driveway, called "Veteran's Plaza" on Google.  All of 
the tracks are to the west.  Pass the area where the hundreds of cars will be 
parked (mostly on your left, the east).  As you go south, the asphalt narrows.  
That's good; it makes it easy to find the location where the bird was.  It is 
easy to park down there.  Put Google Maps on "Satellite" and magnify it to the 
100 foot scale.  The south end of the maintenance building that has been 
mentioned is at

41.1856, -73.88016

The gravel pile (not in the Google photo) is about 20 feet south.

I'm trying to be objective, as I know the area so well, but, really, you can't 
miss it -- the area, that is.

Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY




--- On Wed, 9/7/11, Richard Guthrie  wrote:

From: Richard Guthrie 
Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear Question
To: "'Fred Baumgarten'" , NYSBirds-L@cornell.edu
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 8:52 PM
 



To add to Fred’s question: Would it
be possible to see the Wheatear from a through Amtrak or Metro-north train as 
it is stopped at the station without getting off? Knowing in advance might help 
a thru-traveler know where to pre-position on the train to have a shot at the 
bird. 

   

Rich Guthrie - who was on an Albany bound
Amtrak train around 10 this morning and didn’t see the bird : (  

Not that I had much in the way of hopes of
spotting it. But who knows; someone else might be able to. 

   

  



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Sent: Wednesday, September 07,
2011 8:37 PM

To: NYSBirds-L@cornell.edu

Subject: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear
Question 


For those of us unfamiliar with the area and the station,
can someone tell me, is it obvious where to go to look for the Northern
Wheatear?  Do you follow signs to the Croton-Harmon MetroNorth RR
station?  Drive to the south end of the parking lot?  Will the
"rock pile" and the "shed" be easily seen? 





I plan on going tomorrow morning.  Thanks!! 

--Fred-- 





  





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[nysbirds-l] Croton Train Station: Exact Wheatear Location

[Llolya]

Here are some more specific directions to the exact  location of the 
Wheatear for those not familiar with the location. These  directions start from 
the entrance to the Parking lot (so you will have to  find your own way to get 
to that location).  
First, you turn left into the Croton/Harmon Train  Station parking lot 
(this turn is right before the entrance road and sign to  Croton Point Park and 
on the same street as the Franzoso Contracting  building. The parking lot is 
fairly large and there is a marsh with fragmites  and mud flats on the left 
hand side of the parking lot. Keep driving strait  through the parking lot 
until you cant drive anymore. There is a small  parking area at the very end 
of the train station parking lot  Past  the large brown shack that is a 
storage  building for salt. The storage building cant be missed (it is on the  
parking lot, not across the train tracks!) If you can see inside the  salt 
storage building, you are in the right area of the parking lot. there  should 
be a green porta potty there and a large pile of gravel pushed to the  edge 
of the parking lot. You should also be right next to the steal support  
bridge for the train tracks. The bird frequents the large pile of  gravel. it 
also tends to fly onto the train tracks that can be seen easily  through the 
fence on the right side of the parking lot (right: facing the  support 
bridge) The bird may also be sitting on the fence, wooden guard  rail, or in 
the 
trees closest to the marsh on the left side of this  small parking lot area. 
if you cant find the bird at first, keep looking,  it will appear within 10 
minutes, providing it is still there. If you are  struggling finding the 
bird, check the area on the other side of the salt  storage building (the area 
of the parking lot where you can't see  into the storage shack, but I doubt 
it will be in that  area). I hope this helps!
 
Good luck
-Lewis Lolya (Ossining NY)

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[nysbirds-l] great kiskadee - general info

[Luke Ormand]

I created a blog post with some general info and a variety of sources
including other photos of Great Kiskadees for comparison purposes.  The blog
post can be found here:
http://birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com/2011/09/great-kiskadee.html

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear Question

[Richard Guthrie]

To add to Fred's question: Would it be possible to see the Wheatear from a
through Amtrak or Metro-north train as it is stopped at the station without
getting off? Knowing in advance might help a thru-traveler know where to
pre-position on the train to have a shot at the bird.

 

Rich Guthrie - who was on an Albany bound Amtrak train around 10 this
morning and didn't see the bird : ( 

Not that I had much in the way of hopes of spotting it. But who knows;
someone else might be able to.

 

 

  _  

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[mailto:bounce-38013754-8863...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Fred
Baumgarten
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:37 PM
To: NYSBirds-L@cornell.edu
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear Question

 

For those of us unfamiliar with the area and the station, can someone tell
me, is it obvious where to go to look for the Northern Wheatear?  Do you
follow signs to the Croton-Harmon MetroNorth RR station?  Drive to the south
end of the parking lot?  Will the "rock pile" and the "shed" be easily seen?

 

I plan on going tomorrow morning.  Thanks!!

 

--Fred--

 

Fred Baumgarten

Sharon, CT/Westchester, NY

And points in between

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[nysbirds-l] Red-headed Woodpecker, Kiskadee range and (no) report, Manhattan NYC 9/7

[Tom Fiore]

Wednesfay, 7 September 2011

Thanks in great part to a timely post by Joe DiCostanzo to ebirdsnyc,  
I spent a bit of extra time in Central Park's (Manhattan, N.Y. City)  
Ramble and was able to see the adult Red-headed Woodpecker that Joe  
reported (with Chuck McAlexander & perhaps some additional observers)  
- the woodpecker was not very easy to view well, in the part of the  
Ramble that some of us took to calling the "Tupelo Meadow" which  
refers to a large, fenced, tupelo tree in a lawn area in the Ramble, a  
little ways north of the Azalea Pond.  Comes late word from Bob  
Krinsky, a long-time park birder as well, that the adult Red-headed  
was actually present as early as Monday - Labor Day, 9/5 - seen by  
B.K. on that day in "roughly the same area" as it was  today. A very  
modest assortment of more typical early Sept. migrants otherwise  
graced the park in general in my somewhat limited wanderings in the  
morning, a damp and notably cool one at that.  A lot of us anticipate  
a good push in the next few nights with the current weather clearing!   
We will see...

,-  -   -   -   -   -   -   -
Per the very recent upsurge of interest in a very common species to  
lands south of Texas, here's a bit more on the Great Kiskadee's  
overall range.  Incidentally in my travels through every state in  
Mexico, as well as in a few other places in more recent years, I have  
seen these birds be quite unafraid of humans and also (in a few towns  
in Mexico, 18 years ago and since) have seen the species in cages, as  
both "pets" and for sale as such - not often, but a few times there,  
and as noted, some years back.  I wonder if there are any populations  
that are thought to be at all migratory, such as in Argentina well  
south of the equator - thus "austral" migrants which would be moving  
north around this time just as our N. American-breeding migrant  
tyrannidae head to more southerly latitudes.

http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/distribution?p_p_spp=477836

Also, I might mention I stopped by the "Intrepid" this afternoon, and  
spoke with one young man employed there, who mentioned - without my  
asking - that a large cruise ship had been docked less than 10 city  
blocks up the Hudson river, in "the past week" that had, as one of its  
ports of call, Bermuda.  I would think the schedules of ships that  
dock in Manhattan might be discoverable if anyone really felt it to be  
of great enough interest - but in any case, as noted by at least 2  
other NYC birders today, no kiskadees were found (by us) in the  
vicinity.  There is a 4 p.m. closing time at the "Intrepid" (including  
the free-admission public areas) and as might be understood,  
government-issued photo ID is required, with a bag-check also very  
likely, if entering.

(It's quite the feat to manage a Northern Wheatear and a Red Phalarope  
in NY state in the same day, both photographed!... hats off to John  
Haas of Sullivan County, who posted earlier.)

-- - - --
In response to Fred B's questions re: N. Wheatear attempts (for  
Thursday) my responses to his queries would be: 1. Yes.  2. Yes.  3  
Yes.  4 Yes. 5  Yes.  - however I am familiar with the site of the  
Croton-Harmon Metro-North Railroad Station.  Which also prompts a note  
to all in range of that train system, the wheatear is eminently  
"chaseable" via the train, with plenty of stations served, including  
of course that in mid-town Manhattan, and direct service at most  
hours.  The fares are not too steep either, even better for those in  
the "senior" fare age class.

Good birding,

Tom Fiore,
Manhattan





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[nysbirds-l] Cruise ship possibilities for Kiskadee

[Shane Blodgett]

I'm on the Bermuda origin side of this. There were 2 ships doing 7-day cruises 
to Bermuda that were due to arrive into New York's west side piers on Sunday 
August 28, the Norwegian Cruise Lines "Norwegian Gem" and Holland America's 
"Veendam." 

The Gem delayed it's arrival until Monday and the Veendam came in a day early 
and rode out the storm in port.

Either one if these seems like a likely candidate for the Kiskadee to have 
hitched a ride on. 

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Brooklyn NY


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[nysbirds-l] more kiskadee II

[John Askildsen]

PS- my e-mail provider, Verizon, for some reason is being blocked on this
list. so i switched to gmail. my posts are received by members of the list,
but my posts are not posted to Siler's website. so at the risk of sending
duplicate e-mails, i will repost my origgnal comments to the list which were
not picked up by Siler's site, earlier today. my appologies to those who are
reading duplicate posts:

BEGIN TEXT:

in reviewing the published photos, i do think the bird's behavior is
certainly strange. while kiskadees are by no means shy, never have i
observed them to be comfortable among humans or human habitation, such as it
is on the USS Intrepid (!), like that of starlings or house sparrows. the
tail wear also makes me suspicious of this bird's provenance.
 however, having said this, i made a casual google search for "kiskadee
vangrancy". the result was a 'birds of south dakota' website where a range
map included both normal and accepted range vagrancy. this showed a several
records that appeared to be roughly 400 to700 miles north and or northeast
of the species' northern terminus of its range (south texas). and the reason
for the treatment of kiskadee on the birds of south dakota website ? you
guessed it- an unaccepted record (uncertain origin) for south dakota ! and
there ain't no cruise ships docking in south dakota these days. it will be
interesting to see if there are any recent comments or notes in the
literature documenting range expansion or increased pattern of vagrancy to
the north.
 in any event, in my opinion, this report deserves serious consideration by
NYSARC, which i am sure it will receive, and further informed and
enlightened discussion by the birding community.
 regards,
 JPA
 John Askildsen
Millbrook, New York

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[nysbirds-l] kiskadee

[John Askildsen]

after speaking with luke ormond and doing a bit more reasearch (i called the
gulf coast,texas, bird observatory) i found that, as far ast they know,
there has been no unusual or elevated reports of kiskadee outside of the
species' normal range in texas. i also found that luke reports witnessing
the species 'begging' for food from humans in urban conditions in central
amercia. also, i read (take it for what it's worth) wikipedia reports that
the species is not known as a cagebird favorite as it requires 'live food'.
this being said, that comment was posted next to a photo of the species
perched eating food out of a dog food bowl ! i also checked with some of my
colleagues re this species begging for food and they could not recall such
behavior.

personal comments to me from experts in the past, have said that they
seriously doubt that perching or land birds, may be transported by
hurricanes. and it seems a hard sell to think that a kiskadee would 'sucked
up' into the vortex of in hurricane irene, and get deposited into NYS.
however i clearly recall finding a protho with andy's guthrie and baldelli
after a hurricane in the hamptons a number of years back. makes one wonder.

in the case of a great kiskadee in NYS, i tend to look to other weather or
atmospheric occurrances for the cause, if it was not "The Love Boat" pulling
into port into manhattan. right now there is a severe drought in the
species' range. could this be the cause ? not sure. but it is food for
thought.

i am still very troubled by the tail wear on the subject bird. but if we are
to consider hooded crow, why not kiskadee? i'd believe the kiskadee before
the corvid.

JPA

Millbrook, NY

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[nysbirds-l] Orange County RED PHALAROPE

[vanhaas]

This afternoon, Barry Babcock found a phalarope on Skinner Lane in Orange 
County.  Rob Stone called to let me know they were looking at it, trying to 
determine the exact ID.  I once again zoomed down to Orange and found the bird 
easily viewed from Skinner Lane.  I was able to get a few photos of the bird 
and with much discussion we determined the bird to be a RED PHALAROPE!!  This 
is a first record for Orange County.  I will post a couple of photos of the 
bird on my blog at http://bashakillbirder.wordpress.com  GREAT BIRDING!! John 
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[nysbirds-l] Re Northern Wheatear Railroad Station - 3.45 thru 4.20PM 9/7

[Chris Franks]

Still there.  Moving along fence or dropping on ground as described in previous 
posts. Thanks to all for posts etc

C. franks

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[nysbirds-l] Northern Wheatear - Yes

[Michael McBrien]

	The Northern Wheatear continues as of 4:20 PM at the Croton- Harmon  
RR Station.  It is frequenting the area between the rock pile (across  
the railroad tracks) and the fenceline just south of the sand shed.   
It was last seen up near the rockpile and had just disappeared.

Good Birding,
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[nysbirds-l] Great Kiskadee - NO; N. Wheatear at Croton and Yellow-breasted Chat at Rockefeller SP- YES

[Richard Fried]

After successfully viewing the NORTHERN WHEATEAR at 8 am this morning in 
Croton, and then enjoying a damp hike around Rockefeller State Park that 
yielded a very cooperative YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (eating berries on the Ash Loop 
Trail just down the hill from the intersection with the Overlook Trail in the 
area that hosted the Kentucky Warblers earlier this spring), Rob Bate and I 
decided to stop by the Intrepid on our way home. We didn't expect to find the 
Kiskadee and we were not disappointed. Rob chatted with a park ranger and some 
other locals, none of whom had seen or knew anything about the bird. We did 
find the area, just south of the Intrepid itself, which is clearly the area 
seen in the photographs taken by the British birder. It's unfortunate that the 
sighting didn't come to the attention of NY birders sooner, for the bird 
appears to have departed for more suitable locales.

Rich Fried
New York City


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[nysbirds-l] Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11

[Tom Johnson]

From: Tom Reed 
Date: September 5, 2011 2:57:53 PM EDT
To: jerseybi...@princeton.edu
Subject: [JerseyBirds] Reminder: Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11
Reply-To: Tom Reed 

All,

This is a final reminder regarding the pelagic trip that will be sailing out
of Wildwood Crest next Sunday. We still need a few more folks in order to
sail.

Recent offshore fishing trips report a good amount of birdlife, and this is
a very intriguing time of year to run a pelagic. New Jersey's first record
for Black-capped Petrel was on Sept. 16, 1991, in offshore waters. We're
still inside White-faced (and Band-rumped) Storm-Petrel season, and based on
what's been seen offshore this summer, as well as onshore after Irene, it
seems a great time to give it a go. Here are the details, as lifted from my
original announcement a few weeks ago:

The trip will be aboard the 110ft. Atlantic Star, the same boat that was
utilized for the highly successful May pelagic earlier this year. The
Atlantic Star is part of the Starlight Fleet, located at 6200 Park
Boulevard, Wildwood Crest. We'll depart at midnight and arrive back around
6:00pm. Please keep in mind that the boat does not have bunks available. The
price per person will be $185, which is very reasonable for this boat, and
ALL MONEY will be dedicated SOLELY to COSTS RELATED TO THE TRIP.

Some of the birds we'll be hoping for include: Audubon's Shearwater,
White-faced Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel,
Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Bridled Tern, Arctic Tern, South Polar
Skua, Pomarine Jaeger, and Long-tailed Jaeger, among other more reliable
species, and who knows what else!

Please send me an email, off-list, if you would like to come or if you
have any questions. Hope to see you on board!


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Tom Reed

Reed's Beach NJ

coturnicops at gmail dot com

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[nysbirds-l] Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11

[Tom Johnson]

From: Tom Reed 
Date: September 5, 2011 2:57:53 PM EDT
To: jerseybi...@princeton.edu
Subject: [JerseyBirds] Reminder: Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11
Reply-To: Tom Reed 

All,

This is a final reminder regarding the pelagic trip that will be sailing out
of Wildwood Crest next Sunday. We still need a few more folks in order to
sail.

Recent offshore fishing trips report a good amount of birdlife, and this is
a very intriguing time of year to run a pelagic. New Jersey's first record
for Black-capped Petrel was on Sept. 16, 1991, in offshore waters. We're
still inside White-faced (and Band-rumped) Storm-Petrel season, and based on
what's been seen offshore this summer, as well as onshore after Irene, it
seems a great time to give it a go. Here are the details, as lifted from my
original announcement a few weeks ago:

The trip will be aboard the 110ft. Atlantic Star, the same boat that was
utilized for the highly successful May pelagic earlier this year. The
Atlantic Star is part of the Starlight Fleet, located at 6200 Park
Boulevard, Wildwood Crest. We'll depart at midnight and arrive back around
6:00pm. Please keep in mind that the boat does not have bunks available. The
price per person will be $185, which is very reasonable for this boat, and
ALL MONEY will be dedicated SOLELY to COSTS RELATED TO THE TRIP.

Some of the birds we'll be hoping for include: Audubon's Shearwater,
White-faced Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel,
Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Bridled Tern, Arctic Tern, South Polar
Skua, Pomarine Jaeger, and Long-tailed Jaeger, among other more reliable
species, and who knows what else!

Please send me an email, off-list, if you would like to come or if you
have any questions. Hope to see you on board!


--

Tom Reed

Reed's Beach NJ

coturnicops at gmail dot com

How to report NJ bird sightings: 



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[nysbirds-l] Northern Wheatear still present at Croton Station

[John]

Just saw the N. WHEATEAR at 1:15 PM here at Croton Station.  It was on the 
ground and then perched on a fence in front of the train maintenance sheds 
across the tracks as seen from the piles of gravel and the sand shed just north 
of the boat launch parking lot.

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[nysbirds-l] West End/Jones Beach (Nassau Co.)

[ken feustel]

Three American Golden Plover were in the WE2 parking lot this morning with 
Black-bellied Plovers. Nickerson Beach had a good variety of shorebirds in the 
flooded fields, including White-rumped and Pectoral Sandpipers.

Yesterday a Buff-breasted Sandpiper was still present at Heckscher State Park, 
but was found in the lawn area west of the Field 6 pavilion with Killdeer.

Ken Feustel



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[nysbirds-l] Park Ridge, NJ white ibis juvenile still there

[Andrew Block]

The juvenile White Ibis in Park Ridge, just south of the NY border in Bergen 
Co., was still at the Silver Lake off of Mill Rd. as of about 9am this 
morning.  It was on the north end where the river comes out by the sand bar and 
was feeding along the far shore and on the land.  Quite nice views.
 
Andrew

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Re:[nysbirds-l] [ebirdsnyc] wheatear at croton railroad station

[Andrew Baksh]

Corey Finger just called to report that the *Northern Wheatear* continues
this morning in the same are as reported yesterday.  Good luck if you go and
please post updates throughout the day to keep folks who might be interested
in chasing updated on the status.


Good Birding!

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Queens, NY
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Re:[nysbirds-l] [ebirdsnyc] wheatear at croton railroad station

[Andrew Baksh]

Corey Finger just called to report that the *Northern Wheatear* continues
this morning in the same are as reported yesterday.  Good luck if you go and
please post updates throughout the day to keep folks who might be interested
in chasing updated on the status.


Good Birding!

Andrew Baksh
Queens, NY
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com

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[nysbirds-l] Park Ridge, NJ white ibis juvenile still there

[Andrew Block]

The juvenile White Ibis in Park Ridge, just south of the NY border in Bergen 
Co., was still at the Silver Lake off of Mill Rd. as of about 9am this 
morning.  It was on the north end where the river comes out by the sand bar and 
was feeding along the far shore and on the land.  Quite nice views.
 
Andrew

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[nysbirds-l] West End/Jones Beach (Nassau Co.)

[ken feustel]

Three American Golden Plover were in the WE2 parking lot this morning with 
Black-bellied Plovers. Nickerson Beach had a good variety of shorebirds in the 
flooded fields, including White-rumped and Pectoral Sandpipers.

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but was found in the lawn area west of the Field 6 pavilion with Killdeer.

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[nysbirds-l] Northern Wheatear still present at Croton Station

[John]

Just saw the N. WHEATEAR at 1:15 PM here at Croton Station.  It was on the 
ground and then perched on a fence in front of the train maintenance sheds 
across the tracks as seen from the piles of gravel and the sand shed just north 
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[nysbirds-l] Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11

[Tom Johnson]

From: Tom Reed coturnic...@gmail.com
Date: September 5, 2011 2:57:53 PM EDT
To: jerseybi...@princeton.edujerseybi...@princeton.edu
Subject: [JerseyBirds] Reminder: Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11
Reply-To: Tom Reed coturnic...@gmail.com

All,

This is a final reminder regarding the pelagic trip that will be sailing out
of Wildwood Crest next Sunday. We still need a few more folks in order to
sail.

Recent offshore fishing trips report a good amount of birdlife, and this is
a very intriguing time of year to run a pelagic. New Jersey's first record
for Black-capped Petrel was on Sept. 16, 1991, in offshore waters. We're
still inside White-faced (and Band-rumped) Storm-Petrel season, and based on
what's been seen offshore this summer, as well as onshore after Irene, it
seems a great time to give it a go. Here are the details, as lifted from my
original announcement a few weeks ago:

The trip will be aboard the 110ft. Atlantic Star, the same boat that was
utilized for the highly successful May pelagic earlier this year. The
Atlantic Star is part of the Starlight Fleet, located at 6200 Park
Boulevard, Wildwood Crest. We'll depart at midnight and arrive back around
6:00pm. Please keep in mind that the boat does not have bunks available. The
price per person will be $185, which is very reasonable for this boat, and
ALL MONEY will be dedicated SOLELY to COSTS RELATED TO THE TRIP.

Some of the birds we'll be hoping for include: Audubon's Shearwater,
White-faced Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel,
Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Bridled Tern, Arctic Tern, South Polar
Skua, Pomarine Jaeger, and Long-tailed Jaeger, among other more reliable
species, and who knows what else!

Please send me an email, off-list, if you would like to come or if you
have any questions. Hope to see you on board!


--

Tom Reed

Reed's Beach NJ

coturnicops at gmail dot com

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[nysbirds-l] Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11

[Tom Johnson]

From: Tom Reed coturnic...@gmail.com
Date: September 5, 2011 2:57:53 PM EDT
To: jerseybi...@princeton.edujerseybi...@princeton.edu
Subject: [JerseyBirds] Reminder: Cape May pelagic -- Sept. 11
Reply-To: Tom Reed coturnic...@gmail.com

All,

This is a final reminder regarding the pelagic trip that will be sailing out
of Wildwood Crest next Sunday. We still need a few more folks in order to
sail.

Recent offshore fishing trips report a good amount of birdlife, and this is
a very intriguing time of year to run a pelagic. New Jersey's first record
for Black-capped Petrel was on Sept. 16, 1991, in offshore waters. We're
still inside White-faced (and Band-rumped) Storm-Petrel season, and based on
what's been seen offshore this summer, as well as onshore after Irene, it
seems a great time to give it a go. Here are the details, as lifted from my
original announcement a few weeks ago:

The trip will be aboard the 110ft. Atlantic Star, the same boat that was
utilized for the highly successful May pelagic earlier this year. The
Atlantic Star is part of the Starlight Fleet, located at 6200 Park
Boulevard, Wildwood Crest. We'll depart at midnight and arrive back around
6:00pm. Please keep in mind that the boat does not have bunks available. The
price per person will be $185, which is very reasonable for this boat, and
ALL MONEY will be dedicated SOLELY to COSTS RELATED TO THE TRIP.

Some of the birds we'll be hoping for include: Audubon's Shearwater,
White-faced Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel,
Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Bridled Tern, Arctic Tern, South Polar
Skua, Pomarine Jaeger, and Long-tailed Jaeger, among other more reliable
species, and who knows what else!

Please send me an email, off-list, if you would like to come or if you
have any questions. Hope to see you on board!


--

Tom Reed

Reed's Beach NJ

coturnicops at gmail dot com

How to report NJ bird sightings: http://www.njbrc.net/reportto.html



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Tom Johnson
Cape May, NJ
t...@cornell.edu



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[nysbirds-l] Great Kiskadee - NO; N. Wheatear at Croton and Yellow-breasted Chat at Rockefeller SP- YES

[Richard Fried]

After successfully viewing the NORTHERN WHEATEAR at 8 am this morning in 
Croton, and then enjoying a damp hike around Rockefeller State Park that 
yielded a very cooperative YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (eating berries on the Ash Loop 
Trail just down the hill from the intersection with the Overlook Trail in the 
area that hosted the Kentucky Warblers earlier this spring), Rob Bate and I 
decided to stop by the Intrepid on our way home. We didn't expect to find the 
Kiskadee and we were not disappointed. Rob chatted with a park ranger and some 
other locals, none of whom had seen or knew anything about the bird. We did 
find the area, just south of the Intrepid itself, which is clearly the area 
seen in the photographs taken by the British birder. It's unfortunate that the 
sighting didn't come to the attention of NY birders sooner, for the bird 
appears to have departed for more suitable locales.

Rich Fried
New York City


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[nysbirds-l] Northern Wheatear - Yes

[Michael McBrien]

	The Northern Wheatear continues as of 4:20 PM at the Croton- Harmon  
RR Station.  It is frequenting the area between the rock pile (across  
the railroad tracks) and the fenceline just south of the sand shed.   
It was last seen up near the rockpile and had just disappeared.

Good Birding,
Michael McBrien



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[nysbirds-l] Re Northern Wheatear Railroad Station - 3.45 thru 4.20PM 9/7

[Chris Franks]

Still there.  Moving along fence or dropping on ground as described in previous 
posts. Thanks to all for posts etc

C. franks

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[nysbirds-l] kiskadee

[John Askildsen]

after speaking with luke ormond and doing a bit more reasearch (i called the
gulf coast,texas, bird observatory) i found that, as far ast they know,
there has been no unusual or elevated reports of kiskadee outside of the
species' normal range in texas. i also found that luke reports witnessing
the species 'begging' for food from humans in urban conditions in central
amercia. also, i read (take it for what it's worth) wikipedia reports that
the species is not known as a cagebird favorite as it requires 'live food'.
this being said, that comment was posted next to a photo of the species
perched eating food out of a dog food bowl ! i also checked with some of my
colleagues re this species begging for food and they could not recall such
behavior.

personal comments to me from experts in the past, have said that they
seriously doubt that perching or land birds, may be transported by
hurricanes. and it seems a hard sell to think that a kiskadee would 'sucked
up' into the vortex of in hurricane irene, and get deposited into NYS.
however i clearly recall finding a protho with andy's guthrie and baldelli
after a hurricane in the hamptons a number of years back. makes one wonder.

in the case of a great kiskadee in NYS, i tend to look to other weather or
atmospheric occurrances for the cause, if it was not The Love Boat pulling
into port into manhattan. right now there is a severe drought in the
species' range. could this be the cause ? not sure. but it is food for
thought.

i am still very troubled by the tail wear on the subject bird. but if we are
to consider hooded crow, why not kiskadee? i'd believe the kiskadee before
the corvid.

JPA

Millbrook, NY

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[nysbirds-l] great kiskadee - general info

[Luke Ormand]

I created a blog post with some general info and a variety of sources
including other photos of Great Kiskadees for comparison purposes.  The blog
post can be found here:
http://birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com/2011/09/great-kiskadee.html

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[nysbirds-l] Croton Train Station: Exact Wheatear Location

[Llolya]

Here are some more specific directions to the exact  location of the 
Wheatear for those not familiar with the location. These  directions start from 
the entrance to the Parking lot (so you will have to  find your own way to get 
to that location).  
First, you turn left into the Croton/Harmon Train  Station parking lot 
(this turn is right before the entrance road and sign to  Croton Point Park and 
on the same street as the Franzoso Contracting  building. The parking lot is 
fairly large and there is a marsh with fragmites  and mud flats on the left 
hand side of the parking lot. Keep driving strait  through the parking lot 
until you cant drive anymore. There is a small  parking area at the very end 
of the train station parking lot  Past  the large brown shack that is a 
storage  building for salt. The storage building cant be missed (it is on the  
parking lot, not across the train tracks!) If you can see inside the  salt 
storage building, you are in the right area of the parking lot. there  should 
be a green porta potty there and a large pile of gravel pushed to the  edge 
of the parking lot. You should also be right next to the steal support  
bridge for the train tracks. The bird frequents the large pile of  gravel. it 
also tends to fly onto the train tracks that can be seen easily  through the 
fence on the right side of the parking lot (right: facing the  support 
bridge) The bird may also be sitting on the fence, wooden guard  rail, or in 
the 
trees closest to the marsh on the left side of this  small parking lot area. 
if you cant find the bird at first, keep looking,  it will appear within 10 
minutes, providing it is still there. If you are  struggling finding the 
bird, check the area on the other side of the salt  storage building (the area 
of the parking lot where you can't see  into the storage shack, but I doubt 
it will be in that  area). I hope this helps!
 
Good luck
-Lewis Lolya (Ossining NY)

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear Question

[Robert Lewis]

Seeing it from a moving train?  That's quite a stretch. Virtually no chance.  
Once the train has stopped at the station?  Even less likely.  Get out and walk!

The area is very easy to find.  I posted these coordinates yesterday (the green 
arrow if you feed this into Google maps).

41.184524, -73.879591 

Croton Harmon Station is hard to miss.  Just exit off route 9/9A.  Google maps.

Just go south down the driveway, called Veteran's Plaza on Google.  All of 
the tracks are to the west.  Pass the area where the hundreds of cars will be 
parked (mostly on your left, the east).  As you go south, the asphalt narrows.  
That's good; it makes it easy to find the location where the bird was.  It is 
easy to park down there.  Put Google Maps on Satellite and magnify it to the 
100 foot scale.  The south end of the maintenance building that has been 
mentioned is at

41.1856, -73.88016

The gravel pile (not in the Google photo) is about 20 feet south.

I'm trying to be objective, as I know the area so well, but, really, you can't 
miss it -- the area, that is.

Bob Lewis
Sleepy Hollow NY




--- On Wed, 9/7/11, Richard Guthrie gael...@capital.net wrote:

From: Richard Guthrie gael...@capital.net
Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear Question
To: 'Fred Baumgarten' fred...@sbcglobal.net, NYSBirds-L@cornell.edu
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 8:52 PM
 



To add to Fred’s question: Would it
be possible to see the Wheatear from a through Amtrak or Metro-north train as 
it is stopped at the station without getting off? Knowing in advance might help 
a thru-traveler know where to pre-position on the train to have a shot at the 
bird. 

   

Rich Guthrie - who was on an Albany bound
Amtrak train around 10 this morning and didn’t see the bird : (  

Not that I had much in the way of hopes of
spotting it. But who knows; someone else might be able to. 

   

  



From: bounce-38013754-8863...@list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-38013754-8863...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Fred Baumgarten

Sent: Wednesday, September 07,
2011 8:37 PM

To: NYSBirds-L@cornell.edu

Subject: [nysbirds-l] Wheatear
Question 


For those of us unfamiliar with the area and the station,
can someone tell me, is it obvious where to go to look for the Northern
Wheatear?  Do you follow signs to the Croton-Harmon MetroNorth RR
station?  Drive to the south end of the parking lot?  Will the
rock pile and the shed be easily seen? 





I plan on going tomorrow morning.  Thanks!! 

--Fred-- 





  





Fred Baumgarten 





Sharon, CT/Westchester, NY 





And points in between 





fred...@sbcglobal.net 





  







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[nysbirds-l] Updated wheatear location from 2 PM this afternoon

[Benjamin Van Doren]

Hi all,

I think a couple posts today reflected a slightly changed location for the
wheatear, and Larry Trachtenberg sent me the following from 2 PM this
afternoon:

 Driving from the sand shed along the chain link fence, looking towards the
 track, there is a large rock pile before the large train maintenance shed.
 It was hopping up and down on the rocks and gravel in that area. It was
 further away than yesterday's location -- though we had good scope looks.


So this afternoon it was hanging out a bit further north than it was
yesterday and further north than was reflected in the Google Map I posted a
little while ago. Though, not by too much. So, to anyone who is trying for
it tomorrow, keep this in mind.

Benjamin Van Doren
White Plains, NY

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[nysbirds-l] Cruise ship possibilities for Kiskadee

[Shane Blodgett]

I'm on the Bermuda origin side of this. There were 2 ships doing 7-day cruises 
to Bermuda that were due to arrive into New York's west side piers on Sunday 
August 28, the Norwegian Cruise Lines Norwegian Gem and Holland America's 
Veendam. 

The Gem delayed it's arrival until Monday and the Veendam came in a day early 
and rode out the storm in port.

Either one if these seems like a likely candidate for the Kiskadee to have 
hitched a ride on. 

Shane Blodgett
Brooklyn NY


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