[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots: New/Renamed Locations (4-Aug-'18)

[Ben Cacace]

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

** See notes below if you wish to merge any of your personal locations with
existing hotspots.

New and renamed shared locations (hotspots) have been updated for the 62
county wiki pages. You can find a summary of the changes below with
clickable links where pages exist for a dedicated hotspot.

• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/NewHotspots
• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/RenamedHotspots

The above links now appear on the home page (see below) on the 'Shared
Location Updates' line eliminating the need to refer back to this message:

Home page:
• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York

The alphabetized page with all hotspots (6,280) has also been updated.
Links to both the New and Renamed pages appears on the 'Shared Location
Updates' line.

Alphabetical list of hotspots:
• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/AlphaHotspots

** If you wish to merge your personal location with an existing hotspot
here are the steps:

— Sign into eBird.org
— Go to "My eBird" & select "Manage My Locations" in the right panel
— At the bottom of the screen click "Show All" to see all locations on one
page
— You can sort the list by clicking on any of the headers: Location,
Country, State/Province, County, Type* or # of Checklists
— Select your personal location (it will show a letter "P" under Type*) by
clicking "Edit" on the right side of the line
— Select the "Merge" button and you'll see all nearby hotspots as red icons
— Keep the checkmark for "Delete after merging" selected
— Click the icon that best fits your location
— ... now you'll see the hotspot description above the 'Merge' button along
with the # of checklists you'll be merging
— Click on the 'Merge' button
— Answer Yes to the 'Yes or No' query

All checklists for that personal location will be combined with the hotspot
with this process.
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Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC
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[nysbirds-l] job posting: NY Breeding Bird Atlas III Project Coordinator

[Kathryn Schneider]

>From 2020-2025, New York State will be the first state to conduct its third 
>Breeding Bird Atlas, this time using eBird to facilitate data collection. This 
>Atlas is a partnership between the New York Natural Heritage Program , SUNY 
>ESF faculty, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the 
>New York State Ornithological Association, Audubon NY, Cornell University, and 
>the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. The Coordinator will play key roles in 
>running the atlas’s day-to-day operations, engaging experienced and novice 
>birders, and ensuring the collection of high-quality data on New York’s birds. 
>Applications for this five-year position are now being accepted and should be 
>submitted by September 3, 2018 to receive optimal consideration.  Read all the 
>details here: 
>https://esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=101123 
>
Please help us find the perfect person for this important position by sharing 
this announcement with qualified applicants.

Kathryn Schneider
NY BBA III Steering Committee Co-chair


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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Tues., Aug. 7, 2018 - Broad-winged Hawk & Four Species of Wood Warblers

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park NYC - Ramble south to 59th Street Pond
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD & birders visiting from India

Highlights: Broad-winged Hawk & Four Species of Wood Warblers

Canada Goose - Lake
Wood Duck - Male & female 59th Street Pond
Mallard - around 30 59th Street Pond
Mourning Dove - few
Chimney Swift - 2
Herring Gull - flyover
Broad-winged Hawk - adult low flyover Bow Bridge
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Great Crested Flycatcher - 3 (Ramble, Bow Bridge, Warbler Rock)
Eastern Kingbird - family of 4 Gill Overlook
Blue Jay - 59th Street Pond, Ramble, fledglings at Summer House
Barn Swallow - 3 over Sheep Meadow
American Robin - abundant
Gray Catbird - many, 4 fledglings
Northern Mockingbird - east of Boathouse 
Cedar Waxwing - 8-10 incl. fledglings feeding on Black Cherries Gill Overlook
House Finch - male Gill Overlook
Song Sparrow - pair north of Gapstow Bridge
Common Grackle - 7 along the Gill
Northern Waterthrush - 2 (59th Street mudflat & Oven)
Black-and-white Warbler - 3 (2 s. side of Tupelo, 1 at the Gill)
American Redstart - 15-20
Yellow Warbler - 5
Northern Cardinal - at least 10 59th Street Pond

Deb Allen



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[nysbirds-l] Watch Hill report

[Paul R Sweet]

An overnight camping trip to the beach east of Watch Hill, Fire Island yielded 
good numbers of shorebirds.

Sanderling - 1000 (conservative estimate)
Red Knot - 11 on beach
Ruddy Turnstone - 6 on beach 
Whimbrel - 10, flock of 8 flying west along ocean, 2 on beach
Willet - 10 (at least)
Semipalmated Sandpipers - many small flocks up to 30 birds moving west along 
ocean front but not stopping 
Black-bellied Plover - 16
Semipalmated Plover - 2
Oystercatcher - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 4 in salt marsh

Also on the ocean several Royal Terns, one Forster’s along with Common & Least.

On the beach at least 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls along with the usual Great 
Black-backed, Herring, Ring-billed & Laughing.

A single hen Common Eider on the ocean was surprising.

This wonderful location is accessible by ferry from Patchogue, either to Davis 
Park or Watch Hill. As well as miles of virtually empty beach there are great 
boardwalks through salt marsh at Watch Hill. Wilderness camping (no amenities) 
is available by permit from the Parks Dept website.

Happy Summer.

Paul Sweet | Department of Ornithology | American Museum of Natural History | 
Central Park West @ 79th St | NY 10024 | Tel 212 769 5780 | Mob 718 757 5941
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[nysbirds-l] Marine Nature Study Area, Oceanside

[Sy Schiff]

If’s summer and post season breeding time. Willets have fledged and adults and 
young have all completely moved on; the same for Tree Swallows. Still swallows 
continue over the marsh, but now are all  Barn. Young birds that remain are 
Clapper Rails, Green Herons, visiting Forster’s terns,  Saltmarsh Sparrow and 
Yellow Warblers. Seaside Sparrows and Marsh Wrens did not bred on the territory 
this year.

A Ruby-throated Hummingbird showed up last week in the area that attract them, 
but not seen since. A scattering of shorebirds were there today, both 
Semipalmated Plover and Sandpiper, and Least Sandpiper, a stray Greater 
Yellowlegs and not much else. Fronts lately are from the west and winds from 
the south, We need a weather change,
Sy Schiff

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[nysbirds-l] Breezy Point Shorebirds (and others)

[peter paul]

Yesterday morning, Breezy was host to a couple thousand shorebirds - mostly
Sanderling, but 12 shorebird species in total.  Highlights overall were two
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLs, a continuing male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER close to
the jetty, two RED KNOTS, and good numbers of Ruddy Turnstones and Semipalmated
Plovers (enough to begin to be able to sort through in hopes of, dare I
say, some other kind of plover!).

Nothing rare or too exciting.  But there were enough birds that it felt
like anything could touch down or show up in the mix with enough
attention.

Ebird list and Flickr photos below:

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47691518

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129132563@N05/with/28845591187/

Good birding,
Tripper

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RE:[nysbirds-l] on the subject of Barn Swallows

[Grover, Bob]

There were about 100 swallows, roughly evenly split between Barn and Tree, 
massing in the parking lot at Robert Moses Field 2 yesterday morning.  
Periodically, they rose up in an old-fashioned cloud, and then set down 
quickly.  They were joined by a couple of juv. R. W. Blackbirds, which looked 
quite anomalous.

Bob Grover
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From: bounce-12274-3714...@list.cornell.edu 
 On Behalf Of Shaibal Mitra
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2018 6:10 PM
To: NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu) 
Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] on the subject of Barn Swallows

Dear Orhan and all,

Yes, Barn Swallows are migrating now. Under the right conditions (northwest 
winds following a cold front), one can see thousands of them streaming westward 
along Long Island's outer beaches at this time of year. The weather lately, 
however, has been quite odd, with no northwest winds in our area since 18 July. 
The day before that day I posted to this list, describing the potential for a 
big swallow flight:

http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=1452337&MLID=NY01&MLNM=New%20York

The flight on the 18th was lighter than I'd hoped, but still illustrative of 
the potential to see lots of Bank and Barn Swallows on the move:

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47273411

During the relentlessly dull, humid weather since then, it's likely that Barn 
Swallows and other species are continuing to migrate, but in less dramatic and 
conspicuous ways. Yesterday, as a group of us held an unsuccessful vigil for 
the Walkill River Roseate Spoonbill in Orange County, we noticed interesting 
Barn Swallow behavior. The swallows foraged higher and higher during the late 
morning, until, during the middle of that sweltering day, few could be seen. 
Toward dusk, about 200 reappeared and began coursing in dense groups, low over 
the marshes, joined by several Least Bitterns that flew along with them in 
various directions, attracting their ire at times. Watching this was a visually 
unusual experience, to say the least! My guess is that the birds gathering 
around your boats are staging up prior to leaving, or pausing in a favorable 
feeding area, awaiting favorable conditions to continue migrating. For what 
it's worth, I have seen exactly the same kind of behavior that you describe, at 
this time of year. On 29 July 2011, Pat and I met John Zarudsky at Pt. Lookout, 
Nassau County, to survey the Line Islands for shorebirds. On his boat and 
others in the West Marina, I estimated 60 Barn Swallows, closely packed on the 
railings.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

I saw 35 Barn Swallows on an 18' boat in West Neck Creek, Shelter Island while 
trolling for Snapper Blues. I saw many more on other boats . I have been 
trolling around boats for ten years here, never seen this many Barn Swallow on 
boats. Barn swallows here nest under docks and many times the high tide wipes 
them out, there is at least a hundred docks from the beginning to the end of 
West Neck Creek. Maybe the start of migration south?

I must also add that I see hundreds of Tree Swallow moving west starting at 
this time of the year over the creeks, this year maybe 10% of the Barn 
Swallows. At least in my Purple Martin colony where I have a Tree Swallow gourd 
away, I found only one or two survive out of four or five, where I never had 
casualties and in Mashomack many were found dead in the Blue Bird houses, 
because of the many Noreasters.this spring. Maybe, better live Barn Swallows 
than Tree Swallows

OrhanShelter Island
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