[nysbirds-l] white-winged dove/cockatiel
Had a funny experience today along the Taconic Parkway. As I was nearing the northbound exit 8 I saw just above car level and along the side of the road a bird flying parallel to me that I at first thought was a white-winged dove. It had the swift flight of a dove and was about the right size, but as I neared it and started to pass it It turned out to be a cockatiel! Go figure. It had the ancestral plumage with the white wing patches which is what through me off. So if anyone in the Millwood area is missing a cockatiel, it was last seen flying north at exit 8 of the parkway:-) Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums -- 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] white-winged dove/cockatiel
Had a funny experience today along the Taconic Parkway. As I was nearing the northbound exit 8 I saw just above car level and along the side of the road a bird flying parallel to me that I at first thought was a white-winged dove. It had the swift flight of a dove and was about the right size, but as I neared it and started to pass it It turned out to be a cockatiel! Go figure. It had the ancestral plumage with the white wing patches which is what through me off. So if anyone in the Millwood area is missing a cockatiel, it was last seen flying north at exit 8 of the parkway:-) Andrew Andrew v. F. Block Consulting Naturalist 20 Hancock Avenue, Apt. 3 Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 www.flickr.com/photos/conuropsis/albums -- 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/ --
