[nysbirds-l] eBird.org Shared Location - 2 in Setauket (Suffolk County)
Markers were created for 'Conscience Bay, Setauket' & 'Frank Melville Memorial Park, Setauket' in Suffolk County based on the Black-headed Gull reported by Michael Schrimpf. These hotspots should be available within 12 hours. If you wish to merge your personal location(s) 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. Let me know if you see any issues with the locations. -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] eBird.org Shared Location - 2 in Setauket (Suffolk County)
Markers were created for 'Conscience Bay, Setauket' & 'Frank Melville Memorial Park, Setauket' in Suffolk County based on the Black-headed Gull reported by Michael Schrimpf. These hotspots should be available within 12 hours. If you wish to merge your personal location(s) 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. Let me know if you see any issues with the locations. -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Captree and Southern Nassau Christmas Bird Counts
The Captree CBC will be conducted this year on Sunday, December 16th, followed as usual by a compilation dinner at the Villa Monaco restaurant, 778 Montauk Highway (27A), West Islip. The cost for dinner including tax and gratuity will be $27 per person, subsidized once again by a generous donation from Great South Bay Audubon. The Southern Nassau CBC will be held on Saturday, December 29th, followed as usual by the compilation dinner at Otto's Sea Grill. 271 Woodcleft Avenue, Freeport. The cost for dinner will be around $33 per person including tax and gratuity (still unconfirmed). If you have a relatively set routine on these counts please contact your party leaders to arrange meeting times and coverage duties. If you are unsure of where to go, please contact Pat or Shai. Looking forward to another exciting and successful Count season! Pat Lindsay pjlind...@optonline.net Shai Mitra shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Captree and Southern Nassau Christmas Bird Counts
The Captree CBC will be conducted this year on Sunday, December 16th, followed as usual by a compilation dinner at the Villa Monaco restaurant, 778 Montauk Highway (27A), West Islip. The cost for dinner including tax and gratuity will be $27 per person, subsidized once again by a generous donation from Great South Bay Audubon. The Southern Nassau CBC will be held on Saturday, December 29th, followed as usual by the compilation dinner at Otto's Sea Grill. 271 Woodcleft Avenue, Freeport. The cost for dinner will be around $33 per person including tax and gratuity (still unconfirmed). If you have a relatively set routine on these counts please contact your party leaders to arrange meeting times and coverage duties. If you are unsure of where to go, please contact Pat or Shai. Looking forward to another exciting and successful Count season! Pat Lindsay pjlind...@optonline.net Shai Mitra shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach West End
Joe Giunta and I (SY Schiff) flushed a SRARP-SHINNED HAWK as we entered the road into the parking lot. We checked out the bar at the Coast Guard marina on a dreary, overcast morning. Lots of birds until a PEREGRINE FALCON made a pass and they all flew off. Three MARBLED GODWIT continue. Others included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, DUNLIN, SANDERLING, 7 RED KNOT and a pair of 3rd or 4th year LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. Lots of DOUBLE-CREASTED CORMORANT but no Oystercatchers. Driving over to West End #2, we walked down to the ocean. On the beach we found another pair (or maybe the same ones from the bar) LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. They were disrupted by the same or another PEREGRINE FALCON. It flew by us and landed close by on some debris on the upper beach. Great photo op. The water was full of BLACK and SURF plus 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS. A steady stream of NORTHER GANNETS and gulls moved through from east to west along with numerous gulls. The gulls included a few LAUGHING GULLS. Returning to the car, a group of 3 dozen SNOW BUNTINGS flew over the swale and over our heads in the parking lot. Also a pair of NORTHERN HARRIERS were cruising over the dunes. Nice end to the birding day Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Nov. 19, 2018 - Pine Siskin Flock, Purple Finches, Barred Owls, Ruby-crowned Kinglets
Central Park NYC Monday November 19, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Pine Siskin Flock, Purple Finches, Barred Owls & Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Canada Goose - 11 Lake Wood Duck - pair Lake Northern Shoveler - around 20 (15 Turtle Pond/5 Lake) Mallard - around 30 American Black Duck - 4 Lake Mourning Dove - a dozen at Evodia Field feeders Herring Gull - flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 2 immature males chasing each other around the Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 2 over Ramble Barred Owl - continuing* Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Yellow-bellied Spasucker - 2 Strawberry Fields Downy Woodpecker - 2 (feeders & Strawberry Fields) Blue Jay - 15 American Crow - 4 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 30 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 Hermit Thrush - 4 American Robin - 15 in crab apples Gray Catbird - 2 Wagner cove Cedar Waxwing - 20 (flyover flock of 15 at 7AM, 5 in crab apples in Ramble) House Finch - 2 feeders Purple Finch - 3 females in crab apples in Ramble Pine Siskin - flock of 25 at various locations incl. Sweetgum at Bow Bridge American Goldfinch - 8 (5 feeders, 3 Sweetgum at Bow Bridge) Fox Sparrow - 7 Ramble Song Sparrow - 2 Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - 20 Ramble Red-winged Blackbird - southbound flyover flock of 35 at 7AM Common Grackle - 20 in Rmable Common Yellowthroat - female Wagner Cove (Linda LaBella) Northern Cardinal - 3 in Ramble -- *Bruno Boni Oliveira reported a second Barred Owl in the park. No reports of Sunday's Northern Saw-whet Owl on Monday. After several reports of a female Evening Grosbeak at the north end of the park yesterday (11/19), none have surfaced thus far today. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC NYC Bird alerts on twitter: Manhattan: @BirdCentralPark Bronx: @BirdBronx Brooklyn: @BirdBrklyn Queens: @BirdQueens -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Mon. Nov. 19, 2018 - Pine Siskin Flock, Purple Finches, Barred Owls, Ruby-crowned Kinglets
Central Park NYC Monday November 19, 2018 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, m.ob. Highlights: Pine Siskin Flock, Purple Finches, Barred Owls & Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Canada Goose - 11 Lake Wood Duck - pair Lake Northern Shoveler - around 20 (15 Turtle Pond/5 Lake) Mallard - around 30 American Black Duck - 4 Lake Mourning Dove - a dozen at Evodia Field feeders Herring Gull - flyovers Cooper's Hawk - 2 immature males chasing each other around the Ramble Red-tailed Hawk - 2 over Ramble Barred Owl - continuing* Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Yellow-bellied Spasucker - 2 Strawberry Fields Downy Woodpecker - 2 (feeders & Strawberry Fields) Blue Jay - 15 American Crow - 4 flyovers Black-capped Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 30 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Shakespeare Garden White-breasted Nuthatch - 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 10 Hermit Thrush - 4 American Robin - 15 in crab apples Gray Catbird - 2 Wagner cove Cedar Waxwing - 20 (flyover flock of 15 at 7AM, 5 in crab apples in Ramble) House Finch - 2 feeders Purple Finch - 3 females in crab apples in Ramble Pine Siskin - flock of 25 at various locations incl. Sweetgum at Bow Bridge American Goldfinch - 8 (5 feeders, 3 Sweetgum at Bow Bridge) Fox Sparrow - 7 Ramble Song Sparrow - 2 Strawberry Fields White-throated Sparrow - many Dark-eyed Junco - 20 Ramble Red-winged Blackbird - southbound flyover flock of 35 at 7AM Common Grackle - 20 in Rmable Common Yellowthroat - female Wagner Cove (Linda LaBella) Northern Cardinal - 3 in Ramble -- *Bruno Boni Oliveira reported a second Barred Owl in the park. No reports of Sunday's Northern Saw-whet Owl on Monday. After several reports of a female Evening Grosbeak at the north end of the park yesterday (11/19), none have surfaced thus far today. Deb Allen Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC & @DAllenNYC NYC Bird alerts on twitter: Manhattan: @BirdCentralPark Bronx: @BirdBronx Brooklyn: @BirdBrklyn Queens: @BirdQueens -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[nysbirds-l] The Possible Hammond's Flycatcher at Sunken Meadow SP
I may have missed this, but one important field mark that I did not see mentioned is the color pattern on the lower mandible. The eBird list I saw had a very nice close up photo showing an almost completely pale lower mandible with perhaps a small dark tip. In my opinion this argues against either Hammond's or Dusky Flycatcher, which generally if not always have a pale yellowish or pinkish color restricted to the basal one-third or less, with the outer two-thirds of the bill being dark. Bill Howe Hemlock, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[nysbirds-l] The Possible Hammond's Flycatcher at Sunken Meadow SP
I may have missed this, but one important field mark that I did not see mentioned is the color pattern on the lower mandible. The eBird list I saw had a very nice close up photo showing an almost completely pale lower mandible with perhaps a small dark tip. In my opinion this argues against either Hammond's or Dusky Flycatcher, which generally if not always have a pale yellowish or pinkish color restricted to the basal one-third or less, with the outer two-thirds of the bill being dark. Bill Howe Hemlock, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
