Green Heron Inwood Hill Park
A green heron has been observed by myself and others twice this week, perched overlooking the southwest end of the salt marsh, beyond the willow tree. Bright yellow eye, rust and white streaked neck, greenish/blackish back. A Belted Kingfisher has been hanging around the same area too, usually first detected by its “ack-ack-ack”. On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:07 AM & [NYSBIRDS] digest < nysbird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Thursday, August 29, 2019. > > 1. Nancy Grant, Binge Birding - BirdCallsRadio > 2. Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch > 3. White Ibis, Montezuma NWR > 4. Hudson Yards Habitat Loss > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Nancy Grant, Binge Birding - BirdCallsRadio > From: Mardi Dickinson <mard...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:24:37 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > Birders et al, > > Thought many of you would be interested in my next guest Nancy Grant, > Binge Birding https://bit.ly/2akUsxp > > Happy Birding! > > Cheers, > Mardi Dickinson > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch > From: TURNER <redk...@optonline.net> > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:20:57 -0400 (EDT) > X-Message-Number: 2 > > The 2019 "Frank Melville Park Stone Bridge Nighthawk Watch" in Setauket > kicked off last night with 20 Common Nighthawks seen. Thousands of grackles > swarmed to the reed beds in the park to roost for the night and eight wood > ducks were seen on the ponds. Many DC Cormorants were seen, virtually all > flying from the northeast to the southwest, presumably moving from feeding > grounds to roosting grounds at the Stony Brook Mill Pond. > > The watch will continue, weather permitting, every night until October 6th > from 5:30 p.m. to dusk. > > > John Turner > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: White Ibis, Montezuma NWR > From: Jay McGowan <jw...@cornell.edu> > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:11:55 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > Tim Lenz found an immature WHITE IBIS on the flats at Knox-Marsellus Marsh > (as seen from East Road) at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge late this > evening. It was hanging around some cranes on the far eastern edge of the > marsh and still visible in the fading light at 8pm. The continuing LAUGHING > GULL and AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN were also present, along with a wide > assortment of ducks and shorebirds. > > Jay McGowan > Ithaca, NY > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Hudson Yards Habitat Loss > From: Alan Drogin <dro...@earthlink.net> > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:06:12 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 4 > > I discovered this week that my favorite birding spot in Hudson Yards, just > north of 36th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, was bulldozed. I guess > it was inevitable that to most people this steep slope of overgrown weeds > and trees between railroad tracks and an abandoned auto shop would be > considered an eyesore, but it was favored by birds over the manicured > high-tech “green spaces” of Bella Abzug Park and the Vessel Plaza. It’s > that the swiftness of its demise is just a shock. A bulldozer sits in the > vacant lot behind the chain-link fence festooned with new “active driveway” > signs. The beautiful fan of ivy that covered the auto shop was cut at the > roots and turning brown. All I could see was a pair of Gray Catbirds > chasing each other through one of the last remaining trees, filled with its > final season's bounty of black berries. > > On a better note - I spotted the first returning warbler, a Common > Yellowthroat across the tracks in the bushes. On the south side of the > street, in an abandoned parking lot where the grasses have been slowly > taking over around a couple of stagnant pools, my first Northern > Mockingbird for the area, a juvenile, doing its robotic shoulder shrug - > bringing the count to 31 species. > > Alan Drogin > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > > -- 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/ --
