[nysbirds-l] Dueling Prothonotaries
The curse has been broken. After dipping on my last 8 attempts in 3 states, today I got not only one, but TWO prothonotary warblers! Many thanks to the wonderful birding community, to Gabriel Willow for finding the Marine Park bird, to Eric Miller for valiantly rescuing it from the clutches of a mussel a couple days ago, and to Jeff Ritter for relocating it today for Bobby Veltri and I. And thanks as well to Sam Jannazzo for finding the Lido bird (along with an orange-crowned warbler!). This one was possibly even cuter. You decide. Here are links to videos of both prothonotaries. Marine Park: https://vimeo.com/213370132 Lido Preserve: https://vimeo.com/213370448 (Notice how I deftly took a snapshot of the Lido bird precisely after it had just flown.) As a bonus, we had clapper rail and marsh wren at Marine park. Here’s a video (of it clapping??): https://vimeo.com/213370919 Happy spring migration birding, Peter -- 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] Dueling Prothonotaries
The curse has been broken. After dipping on my last 8 attempts in 3 states, today I got not only one, but TWO prothonotary warblers! Many thanks to the wonderful birding community, to Gabriel Willow for finding the Marine Park bird, to Eric Miller for valiantly rescuing it from the clutches of a mussel a couple days ago, and to Jeff Ritter for relocating it today for Bobby Veltri and I. And thanks as well to Sam Jannazzo for finding the Lido bird (along with an orange-crowned warbler!). This one was possibly even cuter. You decide. Here are links to videos of both prothonotaries. Marine Park: https://vimeo.com/213370132 Lido Preserve: https://vimeo.com/213370448 (Notice how I deftly took a snapshot of the Lido bird precisely after it had just flown.) As a bonus, we had clapper rail and marsh wren at Marine park. Here’s a video (of it clapping??): https://vimeo.com/213370919 Happy spring migration birding, Peter -- 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/ --
