[nysbirds-l] Pelham Bay Park, Bronx - Sat. March 31, 2018 - Glossy Ibis (2), Red-throated & Common Loon, Osprey (2)

[Deborah Allen]

Hunter Island, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx
Saturday March 31, 2018
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.

Highlights: Glossy Ibises (FOS), Loons, Ospreys, & Golden-crowned Kinglets. 

Canada Goose
Brant - 9
Mallard
American Black Duck
Bufflehead - around 80
Red-breasted Merganser - 5
Killdeer - lawn next to Orchard Beach parking lot
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull - adult (Matthieu Benoit)
Red-throated Loon - (Matthieu Benoit)
Common Loon - heard (Matthieu Benoit)
Glossy Ibis - 2 (first-of-season) lawn next to Orchard Beach parking lot
Osprey - 2 at the Lagoon (Matthieu Benoit)
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Great Horned Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
American Crow - 3
Black-capped Chickadee - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Brown Creeper
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 6
American Robin
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird - 13
Common Grackle - 35
Northern Cardinal

For Bronx bird alerts check @BirdBronx and #birdbx on twitter. 

Deb Allen

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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sun. April 1, 2018 - Ruby-crowned Kinglet (FOS), Osprey, Boat-tailed Grackle

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park, NYC
Sunday April 1, 2018
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob. 

Highlights: Ruby-crowned Kinglet (first-of-season), Osprey, & Boat-tailed 
Grackle.

Canada Goose - 11 (6 on the Pond, 5 on the Lake)
Wood Duck - male at the Pond
Mallard - 29 (16 on the Pond, 3 Conservatory Water, 8 on the Lake, 2 Turtle 
Pond)
Mourning Dove - 13 Evodia Field
American Coot - at the Pond
Herring Gull - flyovers
Great Egret - the Lake near Bow Bridge
Osprey - flyover Upper Lobe
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 (one carrying nesting material)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - several
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 (1 Gill Overlook, 2 Mugger's Woods)
Downy Woodpecker - 6 (2 Evodia Field, 1 Maintenance Field, 3 Gill Overlook)
Northern Flicker - 8
Eastern Phoebe -  8 or 9
Blue Jay - at least 10
Tufted Titmouse - 3
White-breasted Nuthatch - NW of the Dene giving staccato call
Brown Creeper - Upper Lobe
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 4 (Gill Overlook, Upper Lobe, 2 Turtle Pond)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - male at Upper Lobe (first-of-season)
Hermit Thrush - 4 (Gill Overlook (David Barrett), Swampy Pin Oak (Deb), 2 
Delacorte Theater/Locust Grove)
American Robin - 25
House Finch - 7 Evodia Field
American Goldfinch - 12 Evodia Field, a few at other locations
Chipping Sparrow - Evodia Field
Fox Sparrow - 4 or 5 (1 at the Pond, 2 Mugger's Woods, 1 Humming Tombstone, 1 
Evodia Field)
Song Sparrow - 6 or 7
White-throated Sparrow - 50
Dark-eyed Junco - 25
Red-winged Blackbird - 5 males (3 singing at the Pond, 2 Evodia Field)
Brown-headed Cowbird - male below Warbler Rock (David Barrett)
Common Grackle - 16
Boat-tailed Grackle - first-spring female continues at the Pond
Northern Cardinal - 5

Deb Allen
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[nysbirds-l] Possible Nesting Turkey Vultures

[John Askildsen]

We observed a pair of Turkey Vultures copulating on the roof of our dilapidated 
horse barn this morning. The two birds then entered the hay loft together via a 
blown out window. Spring love is in the air. We're pulling together a basket of 
roadkill to send over for the happy couple. Stay tuned.  


John Askildsen
Millbrook, NY 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park birds and a butterfly

[Bruce Horwith]

Spring "arrivals" from the East End of Long Island include oystercatchers,
tree swallows and osprey -- and the bat which appeared last winter in my
yard about this time, tentatively identified as a northern long-eared bat
by Kevin Jennings of DEC.

(and pretty tune by Jon Dee Graham)



*Bruce Horwith*
*16 Salt Marsh Path*
*East Hampton, NY 11937*
*(631) 599-0040*

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Larry Trachtenberg  wrote:

> Some new arrivals at least for me the past few mornings in a walk up the
> landfill and out to Teller’s Point, included Eastern Phoebe (2), a singing
> Eastern Towhee (on the wine cellar low road), a seemingly serious uplift
> too in the numbers of flickers, common grackles, cowbirds and red wing
> blackbirds, also saw a few of the meadowlarks that have been up on the land
> fill.  Raptors were around as well, two harriers (including a grey ghost),
> at least two American kestrel, 2 red shouldered hawks flying north, one
> coop, one merlin, the resident red tails, one lingering eagle (or more
> likely a local bird), and a few blue heron flyovers, -- osprey are on the
> light stanchion in the train station parking lot where they have nested the
> past several years.  I struck out hoping to see some waterfowl moving up
> river; virtually nothing either on the river side or the bay side.
>
>
>
> The highlight (maybe because spring seems so slow in coming) was my first
> butterflies of the season – a lady (not sure which), and a beautiful
> morning cloak.  And they of course got me to a song, and in turn the myriad
> of incredible singer/songwriters Texas has spawned – the more popular e.g.
> Willie Nelson, Townes van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle,  Lyle Lovett,
> Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack, Delbert McClinton, the
> less so, e.g. Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Guy Clark,
> Susanna Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Alejandro Escovedo, Butch Hancock, Jimmie
> Dale Gilmore, Rodney Crowell, Robert Earl Keen, Kasey Musgraves, Hayes
> Carll,  and the more obscure, Roky Erickson, James McMurtry, Ray Wylie
> Hubbard, Tish Hinojosa, Adam Carroll, Carrie Rodriguez, Bruce Robison, and
> Terri Hendrix  -  and the many, many I have certainly left out.
>
>
>
> What came to mind particularly upon seeing the morning cloak was the
> beautiful song perhaps more apt for a swallowtail, “Butterfly Wing” by one
> of the more obscure Mr. Jon Dee Graham --- the way he uses a single common
> word “that” as a thread to hold a song together; great writing.  So Happy
> Spring, Happy Easter, Happy April Fool’s Day, Happy baseball season, and
> here’s to my old friends and you lepidopterists out there:
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNFOPc5g3QE
>
>
>
> L.  Trachtenberg
>
> Ossining
>
>
>
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[nysbirds-l] Croton Point Park birds and a butterfly

[Larry Trachtenberg]

Some new arrivals at least for me the past few mornings in a walk up the 
landfill and out to Teller's Point, included Eastern Phoebe (2), a singing 
Eastern Towhee (on the wine cellar low road), a seemingly serious uplift too in 
the numbers of flickers, common grackles, cowbirds and red wing blackbirds, 
also saw a few of the meadowlarks that have been up on the land fill.  Raptors 
were around as well, two harriers (including a grey ghost), at least two 
American kestrel, 2 red shouldered hawks flying north, one coop, one merlin, 
the resident red tails, one lingering eagle (or more likely a local bird), and 
a few blue heron flyovers, -- osprey are on the light stanchion in the train 
station parking lot where they have nested the past several years.  I struck 
out hoping to see some waterfowl moving up river; virtually nothing either on 
the river side or the bay side.

The highlight (maybe because spring seems so slow in coming) was my first 
butterflies of the season - a lady (not sure which), and a beautiful morning 
cloak.  And they of course got me to a song, and in turn the myriad of 
incredible singer/songwriters Texas has spawned - the more popular e.g. Willie 
Nelson, Townes van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle,  Lyle Lovett, Waylon 
Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack, Delbert McClinton, the less so, 
e.g. Doug Sahm, Freddie Fender, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, 
Billy Joe Shaver, Alejandro Escovedo, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 
Rodney Crowell, Robert Earl Keen, Kasey Musgraves, Hayes Carll,  and the more 
obscure, Roky Erickson, James McMurtry, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Tish Hinojosa, Adam 
Carroll, Carrie Rodriguez, Bruce Robison, and Terri Hendrix  -  and the many, 
many I have certainly left out.

What came to mind particularly upon seeing the morning cloak was the beautiful 
song perhaps more apt for a swallowtail, "Butterfly Wing" by one of the more 
obscure Mr. Jon Dee Graham --- the way he uses a single common word "that" as a 
thread to hold a song together; great writing.  So Happy Spring, Happy Easter, 
Happy April Fool's Day, Happy baseball season, and here's to my old friends and 
you lepidopterists out there:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNFOPc5g3QE

L.  Trachtenberg
Ossining




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[nysbirds-l] Sandhill Cranes/Mating Hairy Woodpeckers/Red & White-winged Crossbills

[Joan Collins]

Mary Cronk (Tupper Lake) emailed on 3/30/18 to let me know there was a
Sandhill Crane back in Tupper Lake - standing in the snow!  (She posted the
photo in eBird, but I don't see the record yet - likely still listed as a
rare bird for the area.)  Jack Delehanty and I met looking for it
late-afternoon on Friday and we both missed it.  Yesterday, 3/31/18, Ben
Tennyson (Tupper Lake) told me the Sandhill Crane pair was observed all day
(in the marsh where they have nested the past 2 years) - until I arrived in
late afternoon!  So the pair is back, but I need to visit earlier in the
day.

 

A few notes regarding climate change:  Hairy Woodpeckers have been moving
their nesting dates back earlier and earlier each year.  I estimate that
they are now nesting 2 to 3 weeks earlier than they did 15 to 20 years ago.
(I am not seeing the same changes in the year-round Black-backed Woodpecker
or the migratory Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.)  I used to show Adirondack
Birding Festival participants active Hairy Woodpecker nest sites (now held
the second weekend in June, but used to be held the 3rd weekend in June) and
now the young have long since fledged when the Festival runs.  I was at
Sabattis Bog in Long Lake (Hamilton Co.) on 3/28/18 when a Hairy Woodpecker
pair flew in and mated!  (Lots of snow on the ground and it was cold.)  This
is a rapid change and I wonder what changes are occurring (from the climate
warming) that are driving them to keep moving back their nesting schedule.
(If anyone on the list happens to be studying Hairy Woodpeckers and has
thoughts on this, I would be interested to hear them.)  Also, on another
section of Sabattis Circle Road, on 3/27/18, I photographed a male Hairy
Woodpecker excavating a nest hole in a telephone pole (Clay Spencer was up
birding from downstate that day and sent me a link to his photos - we
photographed the same bird!) - and it was well underway.

 

Blue Jays: As I have noted, this is the 3rd winter in a row that Blue Jays
have remained in the central Adirondacks - and in larger numbers this year
(Amer. Crows also stayed this year).  They continue to steal food from Gray
Jay caches and I am certain this is going to have a negative impact on Gray
Jays.  It is clever on the part of Blue Jays to follow Gray Jays to find
food, but it is very disturbing to watch.  In addition, on 3/29/18, I
stopped along Sabattis Road when I saw birds acting stealthy - it was a
group of Blue Jays (no vocalizations) flying silently in an area where
several White-winged Crossbills are currently nesting and there were 2 WWCRs
vocalizing and flying at the Blue Jays non-stop.  It would appear the Blue
Jays found their nest.  Yet another negative impact from our warming
climate. 

 

A few sightings from the past week:

 

3/31/18 Long Lake (Hamilton Co.) and Tupper Lake (Franklin Co.)

 

Ruffed Grouse - 2 (one standing in Sabattis Road, and one dead (road-killed)
in Sabattis Road where I had observed one (the same bird?) the day before)

Sandhill Crane - pair in Tupper Lake (report from Ben Tennyson)

Turkey Vulture - Tupper Lake FOS

Bald Eagle - 3 in Tupper Lake

Gray Jay - it would appear they are on nests now; I found one bird at a
Route 30 location where I feed them and 1 bird at the Round Lake Trailhead.
The bird at the Round Lake Trailhead is the chatty Gray Jay (I've known this
bird for years it would appear!) and it must be a male.  It makes the most
interesting sounds whenever it sees me.

Blue Jay - many, including one bird at Sabattis Bog giving a perfect
Northern Goshawk imitation (a Gray Jay did this several days ago, and the
Blue Jay has been doing it every day since).  I mostly hear Gray Jays
imitate accipiters and Blue Jays imitate buteos, so hearing one do a goshawk
is interesting!

 

3/30/18 Long Lake and Tupper Lake

 

Ruffed Grouse - 1 in Sabattis Circle Road

Sandhill Crane - 1 in Tupper Lake (Report from Mary Cronk) FOS

Gray Jay - chatty bird at the Round Lake Trailhead and 3 at Sabattis Bog (It
is quite apparent now that the nesting pair is allowing the tailless Gray
Jay ("Stubby") to stay with them.  The BNA account mentions that this
behavior, of a nesting pair allowing an un-paired bird to stay, only occurs
in 20% of nesting pairs.  I have grown really attached to the adorable
tailless bird, so I am thrilled!  This is the first year I've seen the
resident pair allow it.)

 

3/29/18 Long Lake

 

Black-backed Woodpecker - male at the Round Lake Trailhead

Gray Jay - 5 (2 at the Round Lake Trailhead and 3 at Sabattis Bog)

Red Crossbill - calling at the Round Lake Trailhead

White-winged Crossbill - many singing and calling!  (along Route 30 north of
John Dillon Park for a long way (1 to 2 miles), inlet of Little Tupper Lake,
Round Lake Trail, Marsh along Sabattis Road, (& fighting Blue Jays as
described above), and Sabattis Bog.

 

3/28/18 Long Lake

 

Amer. Kestrel - inlet of Little Tupper Lake

Hairy Woodpecker - pair mating at Sabattis Bog!

Black-backed Woodpecke

[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots: State, Counties & Locations Updated (Apr/'18)

[Ben Cacace]

Thanks to @Team_eBird for their dedication to keeping eBird.org running
smoothly and for the group of New York State hotspot moderators for their
time reviewing shared location suggestions.

The wiki page site was developed to access data on eBird.org and in places
it includes additional links to birding resources at the county and
location levels. If you have any suggestions for additional links please
send them to me off list.

All County pages currently have links for the *Illustrated Checklists* and
links to both *Images* and *Audio* from the *Macaulay Library*.

Species totals have been updated for all county pages. This includes the
total number of species with an equivalent color code highlighting the
county name based on colors used on eBird maps. The alphabetical list of
counties on the main page has been updated with total spp. #.

*Hotspot pages*: All location pages have been updated on the wiki. These
include 900 pages representing a total of 1,836 out of 6,103 hotspots
(30.1%). Updates involve # of species and color codings based on species #
along with updated 2018 periods on the bar chart tables displaying the:

• Current Month: Apr./2018
• Prior Month: Mar./2018
• the current two month period Mar.-Apr./2018
• along with the current year: 2018

For the following counties there are individual 'dynamic' wiki pages for
the Top "10" locations at the top of the list of shared locations: Cayuga,
Erie, Monroe, Niagara, Orange, Oswego, Seneca, Tompkins, Kings (Brooklyn),
Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Westchester
and New York (Borough of Manhattan) Counties have all shared locations
linked to wikipages.

Counties with 'static' pages do not need to be maintained on a monthly
basis. These include pages for the Top "10" locations and includes Albany,
Bronx, Broome, Chautauqua, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex,
Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Jefferson, Livingston, Madison, Oneida,
Onondaga, Ontario, Orleans, Rensselaer, Rockland, St. Lawrence, Saratoga,
Sullivan, Ulster & Wayne with Putnam County currently having all shared
locations linked to wikipages.

An *alphabetical list of all hotspots (6,103)* can be found on a single
page. Links exist for any hotspot with a wikipage. Clicking the county name
to the right of any hotspot will bring up the county page showing all
county hotspots. A link to the alphabetical list page is at the bottom of
this message. There is a link to the page at the top of the New York State
page.

*Bar Charts (Species Lists)*: For all county and top 10 location pages
there's a table showing the months, seasons and several time frames for the
current year. Clicking any of these links will bring up a complete list of
species and other taxa with bar charts representing abundance. To see a
list of species for *all* periods click on the name above the months i.e.
'New York State (488 spp.)' or 'Nassau County (370 spp.)'.

*Maps of sightings*: After bringing up a bar chart list you'll see a MAP
button to the right of each species. Clicking this will produce a map of
the latest sightings. Red icons show sightings within the past 30 days.
Click on the icons to see a list of who reported each species and click on
'Checklist' to view their submission. Click on 'Explore Rich Media' in the
right sidebar to view locations with photos, audio or video. These also
exist for any multi-location page combining the hotspots associated with
the location i.e. Point Lookout in Nassau County with its 4 locations.

*Printable Checklists*: a link has been created to produce an eBird
checklist (PDF format) for all hotspots on the wiki site. Additional
details are in this email sent to the list <
https://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/msg20153.html >.

*Tide Graphs* exist for New York County, Kings County (Brooklyn) and
Richmond County (Staten Island). There's a quick link to the tide graphs on
the "Go To >" line highlighted in blue for each location. If there are
multiple graphs on a page the left/right is generally north/south or
west/east. If you spot any issues please let me know off line.

Click '*Overview*' on any of the wiki pages to bring up a sortable list of
all species along with the latest checklists submitted and a list of the
Top eBirders. The default sort is for the latest additions to the State,
County or location.

Check out '*My Location Life List*', '*My County Life List*' and '*My State
Life List*' links on their respective pages.

For each location page click on '*Google Map Directions*' to bring up a
Google Map page. On Google Maps click 'Directions' then 'Transit' to plot a
public transportation route. By clicking 'More Options and Times' you can
refine your search. This also works with 'Driving' and 'Walking'.

• Home page: http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York
• Alphabetical list of hotspots:
http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/AlphaHotspots
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Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC
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