[nysbirds-l] Pelican, Whip-poor-wills, etc (Haldimand and Niagara Counties)

[joetf1973]

While working on the Buffalo Ornithological Society's annual May Bird Count, I 
was able to see the American White Pelican reported by Nathan Miller at the 
Mosaic Ponds in Port Maitland (corner of Rymer Rd and Feeder Canal Rd). Also at 
the Mosaic Ponds was 1 adult male Northern Harrier. In addition, at least 7 
Whip-poor-wills were call from the Wainfleet Bog on Willson Rd. I also had 1 
Vesper Sparrow just west of Long Beach on North Shore Dr.


Joe Fell
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[nysbirds-l] Lawrence's Warbler in Kakiat Park

[Carney, Martin]

Mike Kravatz and I observed a beautiful, sunlit Lawrence's Warbler today at
about 5:10 in Kakiat Park.  Spectacular.  Happy Birding...Martin Carney

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[nysbirds-l] RUFF Staten Island YES

[Shane Blodgett]

RUFF continues on Staten Island as of 5:30 Sunday.

Shane Blodgett
Brooklyn NY

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Bar Tailed Godwit at Jamaica Bay?

[Steve Walter]

Just bad news.

 

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Any news today, Sunday?

 

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[nysbirds-l] East End Birding: Lawrences Warbler

[Karen Rubinstein]

Vicki Bustamante saw a Lawrence's Warbler, today, on the trail near the
Andy Warhol estate in Montauk. It was on the Loop Trail singing Blue-Winged
Song.  She saw it around 12:00 Noon.

My sister Barbara and I were birding the Stony Hill trail which was birdy.
;although not so easy to pull out the birds.

13 Warbler species:

Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue
Black-throated Green
Ovenbird
Blackpoll
Magnolia
Northern Parula
Black and White
Chestnut-sided
Bay-Breasted
Blue-winged
Magnolia

Also, many Baltimore Orioles, and Gray Catbirds
a pair Rose- Breasted Grosbeak
Chipping Sparrow
Hairy Woodpecker
Turkey Vulture
Woodthrush ( numerous)
American Robine (very numerous)

Red-eyed Vireo

And other resident birds.

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[nysbirds-l] Bar Tailed Godwit at Jamaica Bay?

[Robert Lewis]

Any news today, Sunday?
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY

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[nysbirds-l] Central Park Cerulean W (Manhattan)

[Karen Fung]

Found by Tom Perlman. Singing in the N Woods just south of the Block House. We 
are looking at it now. 4:00p



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[nysbirds-l] Staten Island Ruff continues as of 1:30p.m.

[Mike Shanley]

Ruff was still showing as of 130pm seen from the corner of Chelsea and 
Bloomfield Ave. It gave much more satisfying views today as it fed in and 
around the large pools created by last nights storms. 
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[nysbirds-l] Blue Grosbeak JBWR

[Christina Wilkinson]

I just saw a male Blue Grosbeak on the West Pond firebreak trail about 1/3 way 
from the parking lot by the Addabbo Bridge.
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[nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park

[Joseph Wallace]

A quick hour or so at the model-airplane field this morning brought a
satisfying number and variety of migrants and nesters. A dozen warbler
species included Nashville, Tennessee, Black-throated Blue and Green,
Magnolia, Canada, and Blackpoll. Other highlights included nest-building
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Joe Wallace
Sharon AvRutick

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[nysbirds-l] Oakdale Bald Eagles

[Matthew Clements]

St John's University west entrance off Montauk Hwy in Oakdale,NY. 
All the way to end past theatre 
Pair perched in dead tree across water. 
I thought I was going to be viewing a pair of Ospreys.  Nice look at a pair. 
Anyone know of whether this is a nesting pair?

Matt Clements 

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[nysbirds-l] NO Western Tanager Prospect Park

[Rob Bate]

Apologies, there was a social media mix up.  The Western Tanager has *not*
been seen today in the Vale of Cashmere this morning.

Rob Bate
Brooklyn

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[nysbirds-l] Western Tanager Prospect Park - Brooklyn

[Rob Bate]

Marvin Baptiste reports the female Western Tanager continuing this morning
in the Vale of Cashmere as of 9:10 AM.  This area is in the north end of
the park just north of Nelly's Lawn and east of the East Drive.  The bird
seems to frequent the muddy areas in the north end of the pool in the
Vale.  Good luck if you go - there seems to be some good stuff in the park
anyway.

Rob Bate
Brooklyn

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[nysbirds-l] Info re Jamaica Bay Bar-tailed Godwit

[Shaibal Mitra]

Yesterday afternoon's low tide was exceptionally low, exposing flats at Jamaica 
Bay that we had never seen before in many years of birding the area. It was 
partly this unusual circumstance that prompted us to visit the breach at what 
used to be the West Pond, an area that has not been particularly productive for 
birds since Sandy, to take photos of the odd mudscape to the south.

We found the godwit feeding and resting with other shorebirds on the expansive 
flats south of the breach, on surfaces that are ordinarily not exposed during 
normal low tides (south and east of Terrapin Pt.). As the tide began to rise 
(but before locally available habitat was completely submerged), it flew off to 
the south with other birds and landed on the marsh islands to the south. It 
remained there, feeding and briefly resting, for only a short time before 
flying purposefully eastward and out of sight with other shorebirds.

If it is still in the area, the best approach to finding it would be to search 
potential roosting sites at high tide and any visible mudflats at lower tides.

This European Bar-tailed Godwit (nominate race lapponica) is small and markedly 
short-legged and very drab-looking overall.  Its upper parts are grayish brown 
with darker feather centers, browner and more contrasting than in similarly 
plumaged HUGO--a trait I recalled from the only prior Barwit I've seen on Long 
Island, found by Ken & Sue Feustal at Mecox Bay in May 2004. Glimpses of the 
white upper rump while the bird preened nailed the ID and confirmed the 
subspecies as European lapponica (Siberian baueri has also occurred on the East 
Coast).

Several of the people we had been birding with earlier at Forest Park were able 
to get there before it flew and to enjoy flight views of the finely barred 
tail, pale underwings, white lower back, etc. All of my photos are marginal, 
but I think Tom Burke and Gail Benson might have done a little better. I'll try 
to post something to my Picasa site at some point.

Shai Mitra & Patricia Lindsay
Bay Shore



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[nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park

[Joseph Wallace]

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species included Nashville, Tennessee, Black-throated Blue and Green,
Magnolia, Canada, and Blackpoll. Other highlights included nest-building
Baltimore Orioles, at least two Scarlet Tanagers singing at each other, a
Swainson's Thrush hunting along a branch and even fly-catching from a tree
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Joe Wallace
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[nysbirds-l] Blue Grosbeak JBWR

[Christina Wilkinson]

I just saw a male Blue Grosbeak on the West Pond firebreak trail about 1/3 way 
from the parking lot by the Addabbo Bridge.
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[nysbirds-l] Pelican, Whip-poor-wills, etc (Haldimand and Niagara Counties)

[joetf1973]

While working on the Buffalo Ornithological Society's annual May Bird Count, I 
was able to see the American White Pelican reported by Nathan Miller at the 
Mosaic Ponds in Port Maitland (corner of Rymer Rd and Feeder Canal Rd). Also at 
the Mosaic Ponds was 1 adult male Northern Harrier. In addition, at least 7 
Whip-poor-wills were call from the Wainfleet Bog on Willson Rd. I also had 1 
Vesper Sparrow just west of Long Beach on North Shore Dr.


Joe Fell
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[nysbirds-l] Bar Tailed Godwit at Jamaica Bay?

[Robert Lewis]

Any news today, Sunday?
Bob LewisSleepy Hollow NY

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[nysbirds-l] East End Birding: Lawrences Warbler

[Karen Rubinstein]

Vicki Bustamante saw a Lawrence's Warbler, today, on the trail near the
Andy Warhol estate in Montauk. It was on the Loop Trail singing Blue-Winged
Song.  She saw it around 12:00 Noon.

My sister Barbara and I were birding the Stony Hill trail which was birdy.
;although not so easy to pull out the birds.

13 Warbler species:

Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue
Black-throated Green
Ovenbird
Blackpoll
Magnolia
Northern Parula
Black and White
Chestnut-sided
Bay-Breasted
Blue-winged
Magnolia

Also, many Baltimore Orioles, and Gray Catbirds
a pair Rose- Breasted Grosbeak
Chipping Sparrow
Hairy Woodpecker
Turkey Vulture
Woodthrush ( numerous)
American Robine (very numerous)

Red-eyed Vireo

And other resident birds.

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Bar Tailed Godwit at Jamaica Bay?

[Steve Walter]

Just bad news.

 

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Any news today, Sunday?

 

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[nysbirds-l] RUFF Staten Island YES

[Shane Blodgett]

RUFF continues on Staten Island as of 5:30 Sunday.

Shane Blodgett
Brooklyn NY

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[nysbirds-l] Info re Jamaica Bay Bar-tailed Godwit

[Shaibal Mitra]

Yesterday afternoon's low tide was exceptionally low, exposing flats at Jamaica 
Bay that we had never seen before in many years of birding the area. It was 
partly this unusual circumstance that prompted us to visit the breach at what 
used to be the West Pond, an area that has not been particularly productive for 
birds since Sandy, to take photos of the odd mudscape to the south.

We found the godwit feeding and resting with other shorebirds on the expansive 
flats south of the breach, on surfaces that are ordinarily not exposed during 
normal low tides (south and east of Terrapin Pt.). As the tide began to rise 
(but before locally available habitat was completely submerged), it flew off to 
the south with other birds and landed on the marsh islands to the south. It 
remained there, feeding and briefly resting, for only a short time before 
flying purposefully eastward and out of sight with other shorebirds.

If it is still in the area, the best approach to finding it would be to search 
potential roosting sites at high tide and any visible mudflats at lower tides.

This European Bar-tailed Godwit (nominate race lapponica) is small and markedly 
short-legged and very drab-looking overall.  Its upper parts are grayish brown 
with darker feather centers, browner and more contrasting than in similarly 
plumaged HUGO--a trait I recalled from the only prior Barwit I've seen on Long 
Island, found by Ken  Sue Feustal at Mecox Bay in May 2004. Glimpses of the 
white upper rump while the bird preened nailed the ID and confirmed the 
subspecies as European lapponica (Siberian baueri has also occurred on the East 
Coast).

Several of the people we had been birding with earlier at Forest Park were able 
to get there before it flew and to enjoy flight views of the finely barred 
tail, pale underwings, white lower back, etc. All of my photos are marginal, 
but I think Tom Burke and Gail Benson might have done a little better. I'll try 
to post something to my Picasa site at some point.

Shai Mitra  Patricia Lindsay
Bay Shore



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[nysbirds-l] Staten Island Ruff continues as of 1:30p.m.

[Mike Shanley]

Ruff was still showing as of 130pm seen from the corner of Chelsea and 
Bloomfield Ave. It gave much more satisfying views today as it fed in and 
around the large pools created by last nights storms. 
-Mike Shanley 
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park Cerulean W (Manhattan)

[Karen Fung]

Found by Tom Perlman. Singing in the N Woods just south of the Block House. We 
are looking at it now. 4:00p



Karen Fung
NYC
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[nysbirds-l] Western Tanager Prospect Park - Brooklyn

[Rob Bate]

Marvin Baptiste reports the female Western Tanager continuing this morning
in the Vale of Cashmere as of 9:10 AM.  This area is in the north end of
the park just north of Nelly's Lawn and east of the East Drive.  The bird
seems to frequent the muddy areas in the north end of the pool in the
Vale.  Good luck if you go - there seems to be some good stuff in the park
anyway.

Rob Bate
Brooklyn

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[nysbirds-l] NO Western Tanager Prospect Park

[Rob Bate]

Apologies, there was a social media mix up.  The Western Tanager has *not*
been seen today in the Vale of Cashmere this morning.

Rob Bate
Brooklyn

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[nysbirds-l] Oakdale Bald Eagles

[Matthew Clements]

St John's University west entrance off Montauk Hwy in Oakdale,NY. 
All the way to end past theatre 
Pair perched in dead tree across water. 
I thought I was going to be viewing a pair of Ospreys.  Nice look at a pair. 
Anyone know of whether this is a nesting pair?

Matt Clements 

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