Good evening all,
A little listening from my terrace on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (NY,
NY) in the last 30 minutes yielded a few flight calls from vocal nocturnal
migrants, including a single Solitary Sandpiper, a Veery, and two modulated
warbler calls that were probably from a single Yellow
Hi everyone,
In the fading evening light I just barely noticed a tern flying west along the
West End 2 shore. It was a bit bigger than the many Common Terns in the area
with a white forehead, trace of a black crest (not a Forster's type postaucular
spot), plain gray back (unlike the young
>Perhaps the favored sites are so generally sterile as to be disdained by
Great Black-backed Gulls, allowing WISPs to move >in when their own feeding
opportunities arise from time to time?
I think this explanation can probably be crossed off also. Great
Black-backed Gulls are very numerous
I spent a few hours early this morning birding at Cupsogue County Park in
Westhampton Dunes on an incoming tide. Shorebirds were not plentiful in either
number or variety. Highlights included four Whimbrel that flew in from the
east, stayed briefly on the far flat, then continued their journey
Tom raises some intriguing points here. It’s amazing to consider the degree to
which these chumming activities must be affecting resource distributions in
Long Island’s shelf waters.
But the dates and locations of the recent Wilson’s Storm-Petrel reports seem
all the more baffling in view of
It's not unusual to find numbers of WIlson's Storm Petrels in the New York
Bight, I've often had 70+ storm petrels between sandy hook and the rockaways,
and as you head to the edge of the mudhole you tend to find bigger numbers.
With the warm water this year there is likely a rich phyto and
Directions in the e-mail below. Present around 11am today.
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Joseph Brin
> Date: July 23, 2012 12:45:37 PM EDT
> To: Cayugabirds
> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
> Reply-To: Joseph Brin
>
> RBA
>
> * New York
> * Syracuse
> *
- Forwarded Message -
From: Patricia Pollock
To: Phil Jeffries
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:26 PM
Subject: Howie Stillman
Thursday, 7/19/12
Dear Birding Friends of Howie & Anita Stillman,
Our fellow birder, friend and very generous spirit died. He hasn't been in the
park
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From: Patricia Pollock ppoll9...@yahoo.com
To: Phil Jeffries ebirds...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:26 PM
Subject: Howie Stillman
Thursday, 7/19/12
Dear Birding Friends of Howie Anita Stillman,
Our fellow birder, friend and very generous
Directions in the e-mail below. Present around 11am today.
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: Joseph Brin brinjos...@yahoo.com
Date: July 23, 2012 12:45:37 PM EDT
To: Cayugabirds cayugabird...@cornell.edu
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
Reply-To: Joseph Brin
It's not unusual to find numbers of WIlson's Storm Petrels in the New York
Bight, I've often had 70+ storm petrels between sandy hook and the rockaways,
and as you head to the edge of the mudhole you tend to find bigger numbers.
With the warm water this year there is likely a rich phyto and
Tom raises some intriguing points here. It’s amazing to consider the degree to
which these chumming activities must be affecting resource distributions in
Long Island’s shelf waters.
But the dates and locations of the recent Wilson’s Storm-Petrel reports seem
all the more baffling in view of
I spent a few hours early this morning birding at Cupsogue County Park in
Westhampton Dunes on an incoming tide. Shorebirds were not plentiful in either
number or variety. Highlights included four Whimbrel that flew in from the
east, stayed briefly on the far flat, then continued their journey
Perhaps the favored sites are so generally sterile as to be disdained by
Great Black-backed Gulls, allowing WISPs to move in when their own feeding
opportunities arise from time to time?
I think this explanation can probably be crossed off also. Great
Black-backed Gulls are very numerous between
Hi everyone,
In the fading evening light I just barely noticed a tern flying west along the
West End 2 shore. It was a bit bigger than the many Common Terns in the area
with a white forehead, trace of a black crest (not a Forster's type postaucular
spot), plain gray back (unlike the young
Good evening all,
A little listening from my terrace on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (NY,
NY) in the last 30 minutes yielded a few flight calls from vocal nocturnal
migrants, including a single Solitary Sandpiper, a Veery, and two modulated
warbler calls that were probably from a single Yellow
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