Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[Shaibal Mitra]

Starting out very late this morning, Pat and I decided to heed our own advice 
(and the recent good examples of Eileen, Tom, and Steve) and check out the 
forest breeders at Hunters Garden in Eastport, Suffolk County. Despite such 
handicaps as a 9:36 start, a blazing sun, and 81-85 F temperatures, we were 
very pleased to find Hermit Thrushes in the usual places. With a lot of effort, 
we found 7 birds: four widely spaced males singing, near one of which a second 
bird was heard chucking, presumably his mate; and, at another site, two birds 
calling (one chucking and one mewing), far enough away from all four of the 
singing males that they probably constituted a distinct pair, or a parent with 
a fledgling. I mentioned yesterday that my historical data concerning breeders 
at this site involved eight records of 1-2 birds, the latest being in 2011. So 
I asked Pat, "When do you think was the last time we birded here?" In her 
inimitable way she deadpanned, "Uh, how about 2011?" And though neither of us 
felt that this could be, that's what eBird says, and so it must be true.

So this note is in regard to the purposeful birdwatching thread, as well as the 
forest bird apocalypse one. Pat and I are among a pretty small group of 
continuously active birders who, prior to eBird, routinely recorded time, 
duration, distance, and counts for all species. But like everybody, we focused 
more attention on what we were interested in at the time than on what we would 
be interested in 15 years later. We knew where the Hermit Thrushes were, so why 
make the extra effort to find all of them every time? I'm glad now we took the 
pains to record them as often as we did back then.

This morning, we were generally very favorably impressed with the diversity and 
numbers of birds. We did not detect Yellow-throated Vireo, Wood Thrush, 
Black-and-white Warbler, or American Redstart, but Mike Scheibel and company 
found a Brown Creeper (another scarce and local breeder on LI), and things 
generally felt pretty "normal" to us relative to the expectations we developed 
when we birded this site quite regularly.

There are definitely two Acadian Flycatchers there, apparently a pair, as there 
was in 2007:

https://www.nybirds.org/KBsearch/y2007v57n4/y2007v57n4p298-299lindsay.pdf#

Shai Mitra
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[Shaibal Mitra]

Starting out very late this morning, Pat and I decided to heed our own advice 
(and the recent good examples of Eileen, Tom, and Steve) and check out the 
forest breeders at Hunters Garden in Eastport, Suffolk County. Despite such 
handicaps as a 9:36 start, a blazing sun, and 81-85 F temperatures, we were 
very pleased to find Hermit Thrushes in the usual places. With a lot of effort, 
we found 7 birds: four widely spaced males singing, near one of which a second 
bird was heard chucking, presumably his mate; and, at another site, two birds 
calling (one chucking and one mewing), far enough away from all four of the 
singing males that they probably constituted a distinct pair, or a parent with 
a fledgling. I mentioned yesterday that my historical data concerning breeders 
at this site involved eight records of 1-2 birds, the latest being in 2011. So 
I asked Pat, "When do you think was the last time we birded here?" In her 
inimitable way she deadpanned, "Uh, how about 2011?" And though neither of us 
felt that this could be, that's what eBird says, and so it must be true.

So this note is in regard to the purposeful birdwatching thread, as well as the 
forest bird apocalypse one. Pat and I are among a pretty small group of 
continuously active birders who, prior to eBird, routinely recorded time, 
duration, distance, and counts for all species. But like everybody, we focused 
more attention on what we were interested in at the time than on what we would 
be interested in 15 years later. We knew where the Hermit Thrushes were, so why 
make the extra effort to find all of them every time? I'm glad now we took the 
pains to record them as often as we did back then.

This morning, we were generally very favorably impressed with the diversity and 
numbers of birds. We did not detect Yellow-throated Vireo, Wood Thrush, 
Black-and-white Warbler, or American Redstart, but Mike Scheibel and company 
found a Brown Creeper (another scarce and local breeder on LI), and things 
generally felt pretty "normal" to us relative to the expectations we developed 
when we birded this site quite regularly.

There are definitely two Acadian Flycatchers there, apparently a pair, as there 
was in 2007:

https://www.nybirds.org/KBsearch/y2007v57n4/y2007v57n4p298-299lindsay.pdf#

Shai Mitra
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[David Nicosia]

Thanks all. Glad to see they are at least hanging on down there. In the
southern tier they are pretty common and found in different habitat than LI
which is neat. They seem to prefer drier habitats in the uplands, generally
northern hardwood, pine, hemlock but sometimes even oak and pine or just
straight deciduous woods of maple, beech birch, and oak. There is overlap
with wood thrush and veery too. Veeries seem to be the most common with
hermit and wood thrushes next depending on habitat. Wood thrushes the last
few years, at least locally, seem more plentiful. As droves of ash trees
die up here, there is a resurgence of undergrowth which wood thrushes
favor.

 I agree with Shai though, this next iteration of the NY breeding bird
atlas could really be sobering for some species.


On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:47 AM Eileen Schwinn 
wrote:

> Having just returned from Hunters Garden in Eastport, both Mike Higgiston
> and I heard our FOY Hermit Thrush.  (We were there between 8-10am). I
> believe Steve Biasetti and Tom Moran heard at least one Hermit Thrush there
> yesterday.
>
> We also heard and saw Steve and Tom’s Arcadian Flycatcher, and had
> excellent views of a Black-billed Cuckoo. Other normal residents were
> there, including Ovenbirds, Scarlet Tanager and Pewee.   All birds were
> seen and heard between the water tower turn off and the open area, along
> the dirt road.
>
> The road in is extremely driveable, at least to the water tower turn off,
> with minor potholes and packed sand/dirt. Ticks, however, are still
> present, even on the sparse grasses of the dirt road.
>
> Rounding out the morning, we saw a Yellow-crowned Night Heron in the marsh
> off the tiny boat basin, West End Ave., East Quogue.
> Eileen Schwinn
> Mike Higgiston
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:01 AM, TURNER  wrote:
>
> Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the
> LI Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush
> singing; this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists
> have had in preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.
>
> John Turner
>
> On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote:
>
> Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I
> noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.
> Curious.
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[David Nicosia]

Thanks all. Glad to see they are at least hanging on down there. In the
southern tier they are pretty common and found in different habitat than LI
which is neat. They seem to prefer drier habitats in the uplands, generally
northern hardwood, pine, hemlock but sometimes even oak and pine or just
straight deciduous woods of maple, beech birch, and oak. There is overlap
with wood thrush and veery too. Veeries seem to be the most common with
hermit and wood thrushes next depending on habitat. Wood thrushes the last
few years, at least locally, seem more plentiful. As droves of ash trees
die up here, there is a resurgence of undergrowth which wood thrushes
favor.

 I agree with Shai though, this next iteration of the NY breeding bird
atlas could really be sobering for some species.


On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:47 AM Eileen Schwinn 
wrote:

> Having just returned from Hunters Garden in Eastport, both Mike Higgiston
> and I heard our FOY Hermit Thrush.  (We were there between 8-10am). I
> believe Steve Biasetti and Tom Moran heard at least one Hermit Thrush there
> yesterday.
>
> We also heard and saw Steve and Tom’s Arcadian Flycatcher, and had
> excellent views of a Black-billed Cuckoo. Other normal residents were
> there, including Ovenbirds, Scarlet Tanager and Pewee.   All birds were
> seen and heard between the water tower turn off and the open area, along
> the dirt road.
>
> The road in is extremely driveable, at least to the water tower turn off,
> with minor potholes and packed sand/dirt. Ticks, however, are still
> present, even on the sparse grasses of the dirt road.
>
> Rounding out the morning, we saw a Yellow-crowned Night Heron in the marsh
> off the tiny boat basin, West End Ave., East Quogue.
> Eileen Schwinn
> Mike Higgiston
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:01 AM, TURNER  wrote:
>
> Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the
> LI Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush
> singing; this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists
> have had in preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.
>
> John Turner
>
> On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote:
>
> Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I
> noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.
> Curious.
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[Eileen Schwinn]

Having just returned from Hunters Garden in Eastport, both Mike Higgiston and I 
heard our FOY Hermit Thrush.  (We were there between 8-10am). I believe Steve 
Biasetti and Tom Moran heard at least one Hermit Thrush there yesterday.

We also heard and saw Steve and Tom’s Arcadian Flycatcher, and had excellent 
views of a Black-billed Cuckoo. Other normal residents were there, including 
Ovenbirds, Scarlet Tanager and Pewee.   All birds were seen and heard between 
the water tower turn off and the open area, along the dirt road.  

The road in is extremely driveable, at least to the water tower turn off, with 
minor potholes and packed sand/dirt. Ticks, however, are still present, even on 
the sparse grasses of the dirt road.

Rounding out the morning, we saw a Yellow-crowned Night Heron in the marsh off 
the tiny boat basin, West End Ave., East Quogue.
Eileen Schwinn
Mike Higgiston 



Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:01 AM, TURNER  wrote:
> 
> Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the LI 
> Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush singing; 
> this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists have had in 
> preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.  
> 
> John Turner
> 
>> On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote: 
>> 
>> Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I 
>> noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious. 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[Eileen Schwinn]

Having just returned from Hunters Garden in Eastport, both Mike Higgiston and I 
heard our FOY Hermit Thrush.  (We were there between 8-10am). I believe Steve 
Biasetti and Tom Moran heard at least one Hermit Thrush there yesterday.

We also heard and saw Steve and Tom’s Arcadian Flycatcher, and had excellent 
views of a Black-billed Cuckoo. Other normal residents were there, including 
Ovenbirds, Scarlet Tanager and Pewee.   All birds were seen and heard between 
the water tower turn off and the open area, along the dirt road.  

The road in is extremely driveable, at least to the water tower turn off, with 
minor potholes and packed sand/dirt. Ticks, however, are still present, even on 
the sparse grasses of the dirt road.

Rounding out the morning, we saw a Yellow-crowned Night Heron in the marsh off 
the tiny boat basin, West End Ave., East Quogue.
Eileen Schwinn
Mike Higgiston 



Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:01 AM, TURNER  wrote:
> 
> Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the LI 
> Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush singing; 
> this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists have had in 
> preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.  
> 
> John Turner
> 
>> On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote: 
>> 
>> Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I 
>> noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious. 
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RE: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[Shaibal Mitra]

Hi David and all,

There was some discussion of this topic in this forum back in September 2018, 
in relation to early fall dates of Hermit Thrush in the NYC area--and the 
possibility that these might relate to dispersal by local breeders vs. regular 
migrants from the boreal. I have an excel file in which I have coded a crude 
mechanism for deconcatenating eBird line items, and I was pleasantly surprised 
to see that I had, at that time, already broken out my Suffolk County records 
for Hermit Thrush.*

But first, to give a shout-out to my colleagues on the Captree June Count, I'll 
note that we have recorded Hermit Thrush only once since 2015: 2 birds in 2016, 
which I believe were at Connetquot River SP. That site has lost a lot of Pitch 
Pines since then and we have not recorded Hermit Thrush 2017-19.

Regarding our own records, Patricia's formal surveys in the Northwest Woods of 
East Hampton in June 2004 revealed quite a few Hermit Thrushes (e.g., singing 
at 5/20 stations on 13 Jun). Apart from these, I can only find 8 eBirded 
records of 1-2 breeders each, all from Hunters Garden and surrounding areas, 
and the most recent was as long ago as 2011:

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S27022174 

Searches should be conducted in and near these places, and elsewhere where 
dense pine cover co-occurs with swampy conditions (e.g., around the Maple Swamp 
in Flanders). I would not be at all surprised to find a few territorial birds 
persisting even now, but sustainable populations seems to be a thing of the 
past. This is a shame because the LI populations were spatially and 
ecologically quite apart from the nearest breeders in mainland southeastern New 
York (where they are also, incidentally, quite scarce and local, but preferring 
very different habitats). In contrast, Hermit Thrushes were (at least in my 
youth!) abundant and widespread in a great variety of forest types in Rhode 
Island and eastern Connecticut, from the interior hills right down to the 
Charlestown Moraine, near the coast. There, they aren't/weren't picky at all 
about micro-habitat and tend(ed) to be among the most common forest birds, even 
in horrible-looking third-growth oak woods with a few scattered pines.

But things change fast. The new atlases will hold some painful lessons, I'm 
sure.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

*For those wishing to extract sortable counts and Julian dates from sets of 
eBird line items, this is how I do it:

1. In eBird, carefully select and copy a block of line items, including the 
following columns: item number, common-name-scientific-name-count, location, 
state-country, date.
2. Paste this into an excel spreadsheet.
3. To de-concatenate the counts, create the following series of functions in 
new columns, referring back to the (annoyingly concatenated) 
common-name-scientific-name-count column. That column should be Column B; I 
create five new columns (F through J) with the following functions:

=RIGHT(B2,LEN(B2)-SEARCH(" ",B2,1))
=RIGHT(F2,LEN(F2)-SEARCH(" ",F2,1))
=RIGHT(G2,LEN(G2)-SEARCH(" ",G2,1))
=RIGHT(H2,LEN(H2)-SEARCH(" ",H2,1))
=RIGHT(I2,LEN(I2)-SEARCH(" ",I2,1))

This will yield the count for the first checklist in cell J2 and can be applied 
down for all rows.

4. To de-concatenate day-month-year dates, create three new columns with the 
following functions referring back to the date column:

=TEXT(E2,"mm")
=TEXT(E2,"dd")
=TEXT(E2,"yy")

These will yield sortable, numeric values for month, day, and year, allowing 
you to see, for instance, how many records of Hermit Thrush you have in June 
and July in Suffolk County, and together with the sortable counts, to examine 
patterns of maxima, etc, by month or by year.


From: bounce-123710374-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
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Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 10:01 AM
To: David Nicosia; NY Birds
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the LI 
Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush singing; 
this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists have had in 
preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.

John Turner

On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote:

Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I 
noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious.
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RE: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[Shaibal Mitra]

Hi David and all,

There was some discussion of this topic in this forum back in September 2018, 
in relation to early fall dates of Hermit Thrush in the NYC area--and the 
possibility that these might relate to dispersal by local breeders vs. regular 
migrants from the boreal. I have an excel file in which I have coded a crude 
mechanism for deconcatenating eBird line items, and I was pleasantly surprised 
to see that I had, at that time, already broken out my Suffolk County records 
for Hermit Thrush.*

But first, to give a shout-out to my colleagues on the Captree June Count, I'll 
note that we have recorded Hermit Thrush only once since 2015: 2 birds in 2016, 
which I believe were at Connetquot River SP. That site has lost a lot of Pitch 
Pines since then and we have not recorded Hermit Thrush 2017-19.

Regarding our own records, Patricia's formal surveys in the Northwest Woods of 
East Hampton in June 2004 revealed quite a few Hermit Thrushes (e.g., singing 
at 5/20 stations on 13 Jun). Apart from these, I can only find 8 eBirded 
records of 1-2 breeders each, all from Hunters Garden and surrounding areas, 
and the most recent was as long ago as 2011:

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S27022174 

Searches should be conducted in and near these places, and elsewhere where 
dense pine cover co-occurs with swampy conditions (e.g., around the Maple Swamp 
in Flanders). I would not be at all surprised to find a few territorial birds 
persisting even now, but sustainable populations seems to be a thing of the 
past. This is a shame because the LI populations were spatially and 
ecologically quite apart from the nearest breeders in mainland southeastern New 
York (where they are also, incidentally, quite scarce and local, but preferring 
very different habitats). In contrast, Hermit Thrushes were (at least in my 
youth!) abundant and widespread in a great variety of forest types in Rhode 
Island and eastern Connecticut, from the interior hills right down to the 
Charlestown Moraine, near the coast. There, they aren't/weren't picky at all 
about micro-habitat and tend(ed) to be among the most common forest birds, even 
in horrible-looking third-growth oak woods with a few scattered pines.

But things change fast. The new atlases will hold some painful lessons, I'm 
sure.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

*For those wishing to extract sortable counts and Julian dates from sets of 
eBird line items, this is how I do it:

1. In eBird, carefully select and copy a block of line items, including the 
following columns: item number, common-name-scientific-name-count, location, 
state-country, date.
2. Paste this into an excel spreadsheet.
3. To de-concatenate the counts, create the following series of functions in 
new columns, referring back to the (annoyingly concatenated) 
common-name-scientific-name-count column. That column should be Column B; I 
create five new columns (F through J) with the following functions:

=RIGHT(B2,LEN(B2)-SEARCH(" ",B2,1))
=RIGHT(F2,LEN(F2)-SEARCH(" ",F2,1))
=RIGHT(G2,LEN(G2)-SEARCH(" ",G2,1))
=RIGHT(H2,LEN(H2)-SEARCH(" ",H2,1))
=RIGHT(I2,LEN(I2)-SEARCH(" ",I2,1))

This will yield the count for the first checklist in cell J2 and can be applied 
down for all rows.

4. To de-concatenate day-month-year dates, create three new columns with the 
following functions referring back to the date column:

=TEXT(E2,"mm")
=TEXT(E2,"dd")
=TEXT(E2,"yy")

These will yield sortable, numeric values for month, day, and year, allowing 
you to see, for instance, how many records of Hermit Thrush you have in June 
and July in Suffolk County, and together with the sortable counts, to examine 
patterns of maxima, etc, by month or by year.


From: bounce-123710374-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-123710374-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of TURNER 
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Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 10:01 AM
To: David Nicosia; NY Birds
Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the LI 
Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush singing; 
this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists have had in 
preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.

John Turner

On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote:

Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I 
noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious.
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[TURNER]

Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the LI 
Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush singing; 
this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists have had in 
preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.  

John Turner

> On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote:
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> Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I 
> noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious.
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[TURNER]

Hi David: As a person who does a fair amount of hiking and birding in the LI 
Pine Barrens, it has been many years since I've heard Hermit Thrush singing; 
this is somewhat surprising given the success conservationists have had in 
preserving tens of thousands of acres of suitable habitat.  

John Turner

> On June 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM David Nicosia  wrote:
> 
> Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I 
> noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious.
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[nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[David Nicosia]

Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I
noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious.

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[nysbirds-l] Does the Hermit Thrush still breed on Long Island???

[David Nicosia]

Does the Hermit Thrush still breed in the pine barrens of Long Island?  I
noticed on the ebird map for June 2019 no HETH reports for LI.  Curious.

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