[nysbirds-l] Middle island and e Patchogue
An afternoon walk in a small open patch of woods near Pine Lake off Church lane yielded a number of black throated warblers, Baltimore Orioles courting and cardinals fighting for territory. A 2nd year bald eagle was seen flying near whiskey road roundabout where it caught the attention of a red tailed hawk. Late afternoon at the end of Pine Neck Rd were 2 glossy ibis joined by a great egret in a small wetland north of the marina. An osprey fed on a fish near its nesting tower and a few willets were on the exposed flats -- 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] Middle island and e Patchogue
An afternoon walk in a small open patch of woods near Pine Lake off Church lane yielded a number of black throated warblers, Baltimore Orioles courting and cardinals fighting for territory. A 2nd year bald eagle was seen flying near whiskey road roundabout where it caught the attention of a red tailed hawk. Late afternoon at the end of Pine Neck Rd were 2 glossy ibis joined by a great egret in a small wetland north of the marina. An osprey fed on a fish near its nesting tower and a few willets were on the exposed flats -- 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] Blue Grosbeak, Suffolk County Farms
Male, main hedgerow vicinity of beehives, then further south near largest dead tree. Sang once. Sent from my iPhone, I think. -- 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] Blue Grosbeak, Suffolk County Farms
Male, main hedgerow vicinity of beehives, then further south near largest dead tree. Sang once. Sent from my iPhone, I think. -- 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] Cowbird nestlings needed for study
Birders: Prof. Kathleen Lynch of Hofstra University needs help in finding nests parasitized by cowbirds, for her latest study. She has just received a grant to understand how the brain of a young cowbird develops, and she needs a few nestlings, who would be destroyed. If you would like to assist Prof. Lynch, please make note of the location of any cowbird-parasitized nests you may find, using GPS coordinates or by marking the viewpoint with a ribbon or otherwise. Then, please contact her so that she may retrieve the cowbird nestling - don’t do it yourself! - she has the necessary federal and state permits to do so. Email kathleen.s.ly...@hofstra.edu In 2017, Prof. Lynch visited Queens County Bird Club and presented an excellent lecture on adult cowbird brain differences compared to nest-builders. To read more about her work, see https://news.hofstra.edu/tag/kathleen-lynch/ To find out more about cowbird egg and nestling identification, see https://nestwatch.org/learn/general-bird-nest-info/brown-headed-cowbirds/?__hstc=75100365.5d54b031de6d556b75bf622a37af3e0c.1588104399147.1588510835779.1588522246424.10&__hssc=75100365.3.1588522246424&__hsfp=4135581470#_ga=2.205692698.803396861.1588439588-1305640284.1588104398 Nancy Tognan nancy.tog...@gmail.com -- 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] Cowbird nestlings needed for study
Birders: Prof. Kathleen Lynch of Hofstra University needs help in finding nests parasitized by cowbirds, for her latest study. She has just received a grant to understand how the brain of a young cowbird develops, and she needs a few nestlings, who would be destroyed. If you would like to assist Prof. Lynch, please make note of the location of any cowbird-parasitized nests you may find, using GPS coordinates or by marking the viewpoint with a ribbon or otherwise. Then, please contact her so that she may retrieve the cowbird nestling - don’t do it yourself! - she has the necessary federal and state permits to do so. Email kathleen.s.ly...@hofstra.edu In 2017, Prof. Lynch visited Queens County Bird Club and presented an excellent lecture on adult cowbird brain differences compared to nest-builders. To read more about her work, see https://news.hofstra.edu/tag/kathleen-lynch/ To find out more about cowbird egg and nestling identification, see https://nestwatch.org/learn/general-bird-nest-info/brown-headed-cowbirds/?__hstc=75100365.5d54b031de6d556b75bf622a37af3e0c.1588104399147.1588510835779.1588522246424.10&__hssc=75100365.3.1588522246424&__hsfp=4135581470#_ga=2.205692698.803396861.1588439588-1305640284.1588104398 Nancy Tognan nancy.tog...@gmail.com -- 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] Lynn E. Barber - BirdCallsRadio™
Birders et al, Thought many of your would be interested in my next guest today Lynn Barber, Big Years, Biggest States; Birding in Texas and Alaska. https://birdcallsradio.com/ Stay at home be healthy, safe, strong and positive. Happy spring birding from my backyard and window to yours. Cheers, Mardi Dickinson -- 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] Lynn E. Barber - BirdCallsRadio™
Birders et al, Thought many of your would be interested in my next guest today Lynn Barber, Big Years, Biggest States; Birding in Texas and Alaska. https://birdcallsradio.com/ Stay at home be healthy, safe, strong and positive. Happy spring birding from my backyard and window to yours. Cheers, Mardi Dickinson -- 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] Manhattan / N.Y. County 5/1-2-3-4, incl. Summer Tanagers, Clay-colored Sparrow, Prothonotary Warblers, & much more of migration
In looking back, a Nashville Warbler was likely the first warbler of the year reported (& photographed) for N.Y. County since one was found on Randall’s Island, by J.Keane, on January 4, 2020. ... A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continued on in Central Park, at its 6+ months-long territory into May, seen into Monday, 5/4. A nice surprise-visitor stopped by to see the Red-headed Woodpecker of Central Park on Sunday - it was Lotus Winnie Lee! ... Oh, another person also passing by that location on 5/3, doing a literal drive-by, in his big black SUV surrounded by a large escort, was the mayor of N.Y.C. Note: when viewed v. early a.m. on Monday 5/4, the Red-headed was ‘back’ in part of territory a bit closer to the 97th St. Transverse, although still at least 100 feet to the north of that; it was active & moving around in several trees as well. It may utilize trees in a south-north ‘line' of up to 400+ linear feet. A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found & photographed a bit southeast & then moved to the west of the Great Lawn in Central Park on Sunday, 5/3. (my brief notes to this list on that day included the latter location.) This species has become less-rare in recent times as the breeding range has been expanding into the east & northeast of N. America. It is still far less-common in spring than in fall, at least in the NYC area. This individual had many obsevers & photographers. (A Clay-colored Sparrow also turned up in Rye, Westchester Co., NY Monday, 5/4, photo’d. by G.Benson & with T.Burke, our RBA compiler for the southeast region of NYS.) A (first-year male) SUMMER TANAGER was photographed in Central Park on Sunday, 5/3 by James Roberts; the location was Strawberry Fields; report w/photo is in eBird. Another (or same) of that species was seen again in Central on Monday, 5/4, around Turtle Pond, but seems it was a full-adult, ’new’ 2nd individual for the Monday. And there was still another Summer Tanager, a molting-to-red male, seen in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan on 5/4. A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER appeared at Turtle Pond in Central Park on Sunday 5/3; then later sightings came from The Pool, 1 mile north, and this may have been the same bird from farther south in the same park, but may not have been. The bird at the Pool is likely the one which then moved to the Loch, which flows from the Pool’s eastern end waterfall. And a late-day sighting at the Meer could well have still been the one bird on Sunday, 5/3. There have (rather rarely) been more than 2 (& multiple times, have been 2, sometimes together incl. female/male) of Prothonotarys in that park, in past years of occurrences there. In addition, another Prothonotary -by description a likely male- was reported at the n. end of Riverside Park’s sanctuary area, next to tennis courts; this being about near W. 122nd St. & west of Riverside Drive (this area has had that species over past years, albeit v. rarely). Hooded Warbler as well as 2 Cape May Warblers were seen & photographed (A.Auerbach) at Riverside Park near W. 84th St. on Monday, 5/4, with 6 additional warbler species in that area. Many parks in Manhattan - other than Central - have hosted a very good array of migrants, and other parks can be much less-crowded than is Central Park on most spring days. Two (slightly ‘early') Common Nighthawks were seen on the evening of May 3rd, by Andrew Farnsworth, in flight in the vicinity of the East River to the east of Manhattan. Arrivals included: COMMON NIGHTHAWK, LEAST FLYCATCHER, RED-EYED VIREO, SUMMER TANAGER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, LINCOLN’S SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, WILSON’S WARBLER. -- Friday, May 1st - After overnight rain, the wind continued from the east, shifting south & SW much later during the day, allowing some warming even without sunshine. Some new species for the year were uncovered; whether all had actually just arrived, or may have been present in very low numbers a day or more prior is hard to know; in any event, some new-for-year species were found. A bit oddly unexpected (for the date) was the return of a female Long-tailed Duck to the Central Park reservoir, after few-to-no reports of them lately from Manhattan’s waters (although others of the species were still in the region), a sign, perhaps, of an individual bird not able to or with much incentive to migrate onwards; there are many examples of this in waterfowl of many different species, which sometimes simply summer in a ‘wintering’ location, & this has been seen many times in the past, esp. at such well-watched sites as the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in N.Y. City, for one nearby example. It’s also found worldwide, for waterfowl. A male Blue Grosbeak continued at Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, and a 2nd male
[nysbirds-l] Manhattan / N.Y. County 5/1-2-3-4, incl. Summer Tanagers, Clay-colored Sparrow, Prothonotary Warblers, & much more of migration
In looking back, a Nashville Warbler was likely the first warbler of the year reported (& photographed) for N.Y. County since one was found on Randall’s Island, by J.Keane, on January 4, 2020. ... A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continued on in Central Park, at its 6+ months-long territory into May, seen into Monday, 5/4. A nice surprise-visitor stopped by to see the Red-headed Woodpecker of Central Park on Sunday - it was Lotus Winnie Lee! ... Oh, another person also passing by that location on 5/3, doing a literal drive-by, in his big black SUV surrounded by a large escort, was the mayor of N.Y.C. Note: when viewed v. early a.m. on Monday 5/4, the Red-headed was ‘back’ in part of territory a bit closer to the 97th St. Transverse, although still at least 100 feet to the north of that; it was active & moving around in several trees as well. It may utilize trees in a south-north ‘line' of up to 400+ linear feet. A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found & photographed a bit southeast & then moved to the west of the Great Lawn in Central Park on Sunday, 5/3. (my brief notes to this list on that day included the latter location.) This species has become less-rare in recent times as the breeding range has been expanding into the east & northeast of N. America. It is still far less-common in spring than in fall, at least in the NYC area. This individual had many obsevers & photographers. (A Clay-colored Sparrow also turned up in Rye, Westchester Co., NY Monday, 5/4, photo’d. by G.Benson & with T.Burke, our RBA compiler for the southeast region of NYS.) A (first-year male) SUMMER TANAGER was photographed in Central Park on Sunday, 5/3 by James Roberts; the location was Strawberry Fields; report w/photo is in eBird. Another (or same) of that species was seen again in Central on Monday, 5/4, around Turtle Pond, but seems it was a full-adult, ’new’ 2nd individual for the Monday. And there was still another Summer Tanager, a molting-to-red male, seen in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan on 5/4. A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER appeared at Turtle Pond in Central Park on Sunday 5/3; then later sightings came from The Pool, 1 mile north, and this may have been the same bird from farther south in the same park, but may not have been. The bird at the Pool is likely the one which then moved to the Loch, which flows from the Pool’s eastern end waterfall. And a late-day sighting at the Meer could well have still been the one bird on Sunday, 5/3. There have (rather rarely) been more than 2 (& multiple times, have been 2, sometimes together incl. female/male) of Prothonotarys in that park, in past years of occurrences there. In addition, another Prothonotary -by description a likely male- was reported at the n. end of Riverside Park’s sanctuary area, next to tennis courts; this being about near W. 122nd St. & west of Riverside Drive (this area has had that species over past years, albeit v. rarely). Hooded Warbler as well as 2 Cape May Warblers were seen & photographed (A.Auerbach) at Riverside Park near W. 84th St. on Monday, 5/4, with 6 additional warbler species in that area. Many parks in Manhattan - other than Central - have hosted a very good array of migrants, and other parks can be much less-crowded than is Central Park on most spring days. Two (slightly ‘early') Common Nighthawks were seen on the evening of May 3rd, by Andrew Farnsworth, in flight in the vicinity of the East River to the east of Manhattan. Arrivals included: COMMON NIGHTHAWK, LEAST FLYCATCHER, RED-EYED VIREO, SUMMER TANAGER, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, LINCOLN’S SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, CERULEAN WARBLER, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, WILSON’S WARBLER. -- Friday, May 1st - After overnight rain, the wind continued from the east, shifting south & SW much later during the day, allowing some warming even without sunshine. Some new species for the year were uncovered; whether all had actually just arrived, or may have been present in very low numbers a day or more prior is hard to know; in any event, some new-for-year species were found. A bit oddly unexpected (for the date) was the return of a female Long-tailed Duck to the Central Park reservoir, after few-to-no reports of them lately from Manhattan’s waters (although others of the species were still in the region), a sign, perhaps, of an individual bird not able to or with much incentive to migrate onwards; there are many examples of this in waterfowl of many different species, which sometimes simply summer in a ‘wintering’ location, & this has been seen many times in the past, esp. at such well-watched sites as the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in N.Y. City, for one nearby example. It’s also found worldwide, for waterfowl. A male Blue Grosbeak continued at Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, and a 2nd male
