[nysbirds-l] Massapequa Preserve: usual suspects, Green Winged Teal, Pied Billed Grebes
Hi Everyone, I was at Massapequa Preserve today early in the morning and again late afternoon - usual suspects mostly...Cardinals, Robins and Red-winged Blackbirds were very vocal. On the pond by Pittsburgh Avenue, I saw 2 Pied Billed Grebes and 2 Green Winged Teals. The GW Teals were getting a little rowdy - I couldn't tell if they were being territorial or trying to kick it - it's hard to tell sometimes. On my blog, I'm going to try to start adding video clips if I get decent footage. I'll try to post the teals shortly. Good Birding, Rob in Massapequa http://longislandbirding.blogspot.com/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 03 Apr 2014
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/03/2014 * NYBU1404.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- [The April BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Timothy DePriest of the New York D E C will discuss "Habitat Improvement of the Niagara River and the new Frog Island". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose Lesser Scaup Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Greater Yellowlegs American Woodcock L. Black-b. Gull Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet American Pipit Northern Shrike Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/03/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 3, 2014 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received March 27 through April 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region. GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, though few in numbers, have become regular spring finds in the region. On the March 29 BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, 5 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE on Hosmer Road, east of Olcott. Other GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE this week - 2 south of Batavia on Creek Road, and singles on the Niagara-Orleans Countyline south of Route 18, and at Goose Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. RED-NECKED GREBES and HORNED GREBES widely reported. March 31, an exceptional count of 420 RED-NECKED GREBES on Lake Ontario at Olcott. Two RED-NECKED GREBES with 7 HORNED GREBES on the Niagara River off Buckhorn Island State Park. Inland, 2 RED-NECKED GREBES with 26 HORNED GREBES at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, and 2 HORNED GREBES on Creek Road in Batavia. Also single COMMON LOONS on Lake Ontario and the Niagara River. March 28, OSPREY first noted at the Hawkwatch at Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg. Since then, OSPREYS on the west branch of the Niagara River, Buckhorn Island State Park, and the Iroquois Refuge. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK hunting in the Wyoming County Town of Attica. BALD EAGLE on nest on Stroh Road in Genesee County and at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. GREAT EGRETS - at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, and on Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario in Orleans County. Arriving reports this week - 5 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and PURPLE FINCH on North French Road in Amherst. EASTERN PHOEBE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, and FOX SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, AMERICAN PIPIT, TREE SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER and EASTERN MEADOWLARK at multiple locations. Also, more reports of AMERICAN WOODCOCKS. Overlapping with the finally changing season - in the Lake Ontario Plains, SNOWY OWL on Lakeshore Road in Yates, plus NORTHERN SHRIKES, SNOW BUNTINGS and LAPLAND LONGSPURS in the plains. Also L. BLACK-B. GULLS at two locations in the Town of Carlton. North of the Iroquois Refuge, 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in Shelby. Other reports this week - two SANDHILL CRANES over Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. BALD EAGLE, harassed by a gull, over Transit and Wherle Drive in Amherst. PEREGRINE FALCON on the south Grand Island bridge. 30 LESSER SCAUP for the past three weeks at the Erie Canal Gateway Park in North Tonawanda. And a CACKLING GOOSE at Tifft Nature Preserve. The April BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Timothy DePriest of the New York D E C will discuss "Habitat Improvement of the Niagara River and the new Frog Island". Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 10. 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2)
Re:[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC: 4/3
Thursday, 3 April, 2014 - Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City In addition the V. Rail which is of course a rare bird in Central any day, there was also a Louisiana Waterthrush in the Loch / Ravine seen earlier in the day. There were at least 3 other warbler species found in Central - Pine (bright male, s. of compost area), Palm (at least several, this following what turns out were a couple the day before, by multiple obs.), & Myrtle/Yellow-rumped, this also seen the day before as well as today (area just s. of Ramble, but the Thurs. bird was drab, found at the Mall area, maybe a 2nd individual); thus an apparent 4-warbler day, just like that (& at least 3 yesterday, as Pine was present in the usual area in the Ramble) - what a little milder weather & the lengthening days now can do. For other migrants, today may (?) have seen departure of the Red- necked Grebe at the reservoir; I did not notice it in a 45-minute scan session this a.m. - would be interesting to know if A., anyone saw it at all today, & B., if anyone actually saw it lift off. It had been there at least 23 days in a row, and gained a modest amount of its breeding plumage. Still on the res. were the pair (male-female) of Red- breasted Mergansers; N. Shovelers, a few Hooded Mergansers, plenty of Buffleheads, a smattering of Gadwalls, a Wood Duck or 3, & still a few Am. Coots continued. Double-crested Cormorant numbers are still growing in the park (& more flyovers). Oh, and Ruddy Ducks are still in very low numbers, res. & the Meer... American Black Ducks here & there, not many... Besides aforementioned warblers, there were again a modest number of Golden-crowned Kinglets, a new report of Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Ramble, Joe DiCostanzo's AMNH group walk), Hermit Thrushes, & "red" Fox Sparrows, with a very few Chipping & Swamp Sparrows as well, and what seemed (to me) to be a fresh influx of White-throated Sparrows, although not yet the major arrival of passage migrants (as opposed to all the White-throated that winter each year, in the 100's) of them... & in modest numbers too: Yellow-shafted Flickers, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, most concentrated in the n. woods, although at least 6 flickers overflew the park after 9 a.m., and there was a bit of earlier morning-type flight noted with Am. Robins in particular going over, not stopping in to the park, at high elevation and with some 1,500+ noticed thru about 10 a.m., the numbers both going higher in altitude & much lower in numbers per hour (or less visible) as the morning went along. The Baltimore Orioles (bright adult male, & one less-bright) were still in the Ramble, but I did not note the Ppine warbler today that had been in the park since at least Feb. 9th (first sighting/report); perhaps it was still being seen by others. A Great Egret was by the Boathouse cafe, easy to see from the Point & other vantages, in early a.m. & Black-crowned Night-Herons continued at the Pond & along the Point as did a Great Blue Heron at latter location. Thanks Anders for re-posting with some details on the rail. Please, all, be considerate of all birds - & all other birders - and do not harass with unneeded recordings or bashing in off-trails to seek better views, photos or whatever else. good April birding, Tom Fiore, Manhattan - - - - - - - - - - - On Apr 3, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Anders Peltomaa wrote: > Hello, > Sam Stuart found a Virginia Rail in the Loch, i.e. the water stream > running through the ravine at the North End of Central Park. When > Sam discovered the bird it was walking in the water near the > confluence of the small stream and the larger stream. This is > downstream from both the rustic bridges. > > Around 7:30pm the bird made a re-appearance for Sam, Anya Auerbach, > Brian Padden and Brett and myself. We had decent views of it in the > low light as it was walking in the water and standing still feeding. > After a while it walked/ran back up on land and disappeared out of > view behind some fallen tree trunks. > > It could pay off searching for it tomorrow. The Virginia Rail that > was in the same area in September last year stayed for a few days. > > good birding, > > Anders Peltomaa > Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC: VIRGINIA RAIL
Hello, Sam Stuart found a Virginia Rail in the Loch, i.e. the water stream running through the ravine at the North End of Central Park. When Sam discovered the bird it was walking in the water near the confluence of the small stream and the larger stream. This is downstream from both the rustic bridges. Around 7:30pm the bird made a re-appearance for Sam, Anya Auerbach, Brian Padden and Brett and myself. We had decent views of it in the low light as it was walking in the water and standing still feeding. After a while it walked/ran back up on land and disappeared out of view behind some fallen tree trunks. It could pay off searching for it tomorrow. The Virginia Rail that was in the same area in September last year stayed for a few days. good birding, Anders Peltomaa Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Dune Road
Today around 4:00pm I took a drive down dune rd and to my surprise, saw a short-eared owl hovering and finally perching for a few minutes on the south side of the road (between roads L and K). Melissa -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Dune Road
Today around 4:00pm I took a drive down dune rd and to my surprise, saw a short-eared owl hovering and finally perching for a few minutes on the south side of the road (between roads L and K). Melissa -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC: VIRGINIA RAIL
Hello, Sam Stuart found a Virginia Rail in the Loch, i.e. the water stream running through the ravine at the North End of Central Park. When Sam discovered the bird it was walking in the water near the confluence of the small stream and the larger stream. This is downstream from both the rustic bridges. Around 7:30pm the bird made a re-appearance for Sam, Anya Auerbach, Brian Padden and Brett and myself. We had decent views of it in the low light as it was walking in the water and standing still feeding. After a while it walked/ran back up on land and disappeared out of view behind some fallen tree trunks. It could pay off searching for it tomorrow. The Virginia Rail that was in the same area in September last year stayed for a few days. good birding, Anders Peltomaa Manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 03 Apr 2014
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/03/2014 * NYBU1404.03 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- [The April BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Timothy DePriest of the New York D E C will discuss Habitat Improvement of the Niagara River and the new Frog Island. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Gr. White-fr. Goose Cackling Goose Lesser Scaup Osprey Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Sandhill Crane Greater Yellowlegs American Woodcock L. Black-b. Gull Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Brown Creeper Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet American Pipit Northern Shrike Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/03/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 3, 2014 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received March 27 through April 3 from the Niagara Frontier Region. GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE, though few in numbers, have become regular spring finds in the region. On the March 29 BOS field trip to the Lake Ontario Plains, 5 GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE on Hosmer Road, east of Olcott. Other GR. WHITE-FR. GEESE this week - 2 south of Batavia on Creek Road, and singles on the Niagara-Orleans Countyline south of Route 18, and at Goose Pond in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. RED-NECKED GREBES and HORNED GREBES widely reported. March 31, an exceptional count of 420 RED-NECKED GREBES on Lake Ontario at Olcott. Two RED-NECKED GREBES with 7 HORNED GREBES on the Niagara River off Buckhorn Island State Park. Inland, 2 RED-NECKED GREBES with 26 HORNED GREBES at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge, and 2 HORNED GREBES on Creek Road in Batavia. Also single COMMON LOONS on Lake Ontario and the Niagara River. March 28, OSPREY first noted at the Hawkwatch at Lakeside Cemetery in Hamburg. Since then, OSPREYS on the west branch of the Niagara River, Buckhorn Island State Park, and the Iroquois Refuge. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK hunting in the Wyoming County Town of Attica. BALD EAGLE on nest on Stroh Road in Genesee County and at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge. GREAT EGRETS - at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, and on Johnson Creek at Lake Ontario in Orleans County. Arriving reports this week - 5 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf Marsh. RUSTY BLACKBIRDS and PURPLE FINCH on North French Road in Amherst. EASTERN PHOEBE, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, and FOX SPARROW at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. And, AMERICAN PIPIT, TREE SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER and EASTERN MEADOWLARK at multiple locations. Also, more reports of AMERICAN WOODCOCKS. Overlapping with the finally changing season - in the Lake Ontario Plains, SNOWY OWL on Lakeshore Road in Yates, plus NORTHERN SHRIKES, SNOW BUNTINGS and LAPLAND LONGSPURS in the plains. Also L. BLACK-B. GULLS at two locations in the Town of Carlton. North of the Iroquois Refuge, 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK in Shelby. Other reports this week - two SANDHILL CRANES over Casey Road in the Iroquois Refuge. BALD EAGLE, harassed by a gull, over Transit and Wherle Drive in Amherst. PEREGRINE FALCON on the south Grand Island bridge. 30 LESSER SCAUP for the past three weeks at the Erie Canal Gateway Park in North Tonawanda. And a CACKLING GOOSE at Tifft Nature Preserve. The April BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Timothy DePriest of the New York D E C will discuss Habitat Improvement of the Niagara River and the new Frog Island. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 10. 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2)
[nysbirds-l] Massapequa Preserve: usual suspects, Green Winged Teal, Pied Billed Grebes
Hi Everyone, I was at Massapequa Preserve today early in the morning and again late afternoon - usual suspects mostly...Cardinals, Robins and Red-winged Blackbirds were very vocal. On the pond by Pittsburgh Avenue, I saw 2 Pied Billed Grebes and 2 Green Winged Teals. The GW Teals were getting a little rowdy - I couldn't tell if they were being territorial or trying to kick it - it's hard to tell sometimes. On my blog, I'm going to try to start adding video clips if I get decent footage. I'll try to post the teals shortly. Good Birding, Rob in Massapequa http://longislandbirding.blogspot.com/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
