RE: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens
Chat, Tanager and Wilson's all seen on Sunday. On Dec 9, 2017 2:58 PM, "Shaibal Mitra" <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote: > A Western Tanager continued at Crocheron Park this morning. > > I had not until today looked at any photos of the bird(s) present recently > at the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area (ca. 1.5 miles > away), but Corey Finger's photos from 25 Nov clearly show a bird with > uniformly juvenal greater coverts on its right wing: > > https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40716432 > > The bird we saw this morning at Crocheron Park clearly showed a mix of > juvenal (small, worn, grayish-brown, restricted whitish tips) and formative > (large, fresh, black, extensive whitish tips) greater coverts on this wing: > > https://flic.kr/p/22k7Kfv > > The number of feathers replaced, as well as the slightly eccentric manner > in which the replacement skipped one juv feather) argue against a single > bird molting over a two week period. > > Other photos from the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area > show a Western Tanager that appears brighter than the one in Corey's photos > (perhaps more similar to the Crocheron bird), but the photos I found do not > show the wing feathers in sufficient detail for comparison with Corey's > bird, or with the Crocheron bird. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > > From: bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu [ > bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Steve Walter [ > swalte...@verizon.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00 PM > To: nysbird...@list.cornell.edu > Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens > > Eric Miller again found Western Tanager this afternoon. I don’t know > whether to refer to it as the Western Tanager or a Western Tanager. The > location is about a mile and a half drive from Alley Pond Environmental > Center, or whatever that comes out to as the tanager might fly. The site is > Crocheron Park in Bayside (also shown on Google Maps as John Golden Park). > The specific location was on the back (south) side of Crocheron Pond (also > called Golden Pond). > > From the Cross Island Parkway, go west on Northern Blvd. to 221st Street > (second light after the parkway). Turn right and continue northward until > the end of 221st , then make a left onto Corbett Road. When you hit 35th > Avenue, make a sharp right and go down the hill to the pond. Parking here > is ample. > > Hopefully, this will be a more reliable situation than the one in Alley – > especially as we’re heading toward CBC time. > > > Steve Walter > Bayside, NY > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/ > NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > Archives: > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@ > cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> > Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! > -- > -- > > 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 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/ --
RE: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens
Chat, Tanager and Wilson's all seen on Sunday. On Dec 9, 2017 2:58 PM, "Shaibal Mitra" wrote: > A Western Tanager continued at Crocheron Park this morning. > > I had not until today looked at any photos of the bird(s) present recently > at the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area (ca. 1.5 miles > away), but Corey Finger's photos from 25 Nov clearly show a bird with > uniformly juvenal greater coverts on its right wing: > > https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40716432 > > The bird we saw this morning at Crocheron Park clearly showed a mix of > juvenal (small, worn, grayish-brown, restricted whitish tips) and formative > (large, fresh, black, extensive whitish tips) greater coverts on this wing: > > https://flic.kr/p/22k7Kfv > > The number of feathers replaced, as well as the slightly eccentric manner > in which the replacement skipped one juv feather) argue against a single > bird molting over a two week period. > > Other photos from the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area > show a Western Tanager that appears brighter than the one in Corey's photos > (perhaps more similar to the Crocheron bird), but the photos I found do not > show the wing feathers in sufficient detail for comparison with Corey's > bird, or with the Crocheron bird. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > > From: bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu [ > bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Steve Walter [ > swalte...@verizon.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00 PM > To: nysbird...@list.cornell.edu > Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens > > Eric Miller again found Western Tanager this afternoon. I don’t know > whether to refer to it as the Western Tanager or a Western Tanager. The > location is about a mile and a half drive from Alley Pond Environmental > Center, or whatever that comes out to as the tanager might fly. The site is > Crocheron Park in Bayside (also shown on Google Maps as John Golden Park). > The specific location was on the back (south) side of Crocheron Pond (also > called Golden Pond). > > From the Cross Island Parkway, go west on Northern Blvd. to 221st Street > (second light after the parkway). Turn right and continue northward until > the end of 221st , then make a left onto Corbett Road. When you hit 35th > Avenue, make a sharp right and go down the hill to the pond. Parking here > is ample. > > Hopefully, this will be a more reliable situation than the one in Alley – > especially as we’re heading toward CBC time. > > > Steve Walter > Bayside, NY > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/ > NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > Archives: > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@ > cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> > Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! > -- > -- > > 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 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/ --
RE: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens
A Western Tanager continued at Crocheron Park this morning. I had not until today looked at any photos of the bird(s) present recently at the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area (ca. 1.5 miles away), but Corey Finger's photos from 25 Nov clearly show a bird with uniformly juvenal greater coverts on its right wing: https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40716432 The bird we saw this morning at Crocheron Park clearly showed a mix of juvenal (small, worn, grayish-brown, restricted whitish tips) and formative (large, fresh, black, extensive whitish tips) greater coverts on this wing: https://flic.kr/p/22k7Kfv The number of feathers replaced, as well as the slightly eccentric manner in which the replacement skipped one juv feather) argue against a single bird molting over a two week period. Other photos from the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area show a Western Tanager that appears brighter than the one in Corey's photos (perhaps more similar to the Crocheron bird), but the photos I found do not show the wing feathers in sufficient detail for comparison with Corey's bird, or with the Crocheron bird. Shai Mitra Bay Shore From: bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Steve Walter [swalte...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00 PM To: nysbird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens Eric Miller again found Western Tanager this afternoon. I don’t know whether to refer to it as the Western Tanager or a Western Tanager. The location is about a mile and a half drive from Alley Pond Environmental Center, or whatever that comes out to as the tanager might fly. The site is Crocheron Park in Bayside (also shown on Google Maps as John Golden Park). The specific location was on the back (south) side of Crocheron Pond (also called Golden Pond). >From the Cross Island Parkway, go west on Northern Blvd. to 221st Street >(second light after the parkway). Turn right and continue northward until the >end of 221st , then make a left onto Corbett Road. When you hit 35th Avenue, >make a sharp right and go down the hill to the pond. Parking here is ample. Hopefully, this will be a more reliable situation than the one in Alley – especially as we’re heading toward CBC time. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
RE: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens
A Western Tanager continued at Crocheron Park this morning. I had not until today looked at any photos of the bird(s) present recently at the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area (ca. 1.5 miles away), but Corey Finger's photos from 25 Nov clearly show a bird with uniformly juvenal greater coverts on its right wing: https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40716432 The bird we saw this morning at Crocheron Park clearly showed a mix of juvenal (small, worn, grayish-brown, restricted whitish tips) and formative (large, fresh, black, extensive whitish tips) greater coverts on this wing: https://flic.kr/p/22k7Kfv The number of feathers replaced, as well as the slightly eccentric manner in which the replacement skipped one juv feather) argue against a single bird molting over a two week period. Other photos from the Alley Pond Environmental Center/Restoration Area show a Western Tanager that appears brighter than the one in Corey's photos (perhaps more similar to the Crocheron bird), but the photos I found do not show the wing feathers in sufficient detail for comparison with Corey's bird, or with the Crocheron bird. Shai Mitra Bay Shore From: bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-122109878-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Steve Walter [swalte...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00 PM To: nysbird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: [nysbirds-l] Western Tanager in Queens Eric Miller again found Western Tanager this afternoon. I don’t know whether to refer to it as the Western Tanager or a Western Tanager. The location is about a mile and a half drive from Alley Pond Environmental Center, or whatever that comes out to as the tanager might fly. The site is Crocheron Park in Bayside (also shown on Google Maps as John Golden Park). The specific location was on the back (south) side of Crocheron Pond (also called Golden Pond). >From the Cross Island Parkway, go west on Northern Blvd. to 221st Street >(second light after the parkway). Turn right and continue northward until the >end of 221st , then make a left onto Corbett Road. When you hit 35th Avenue, >make a sharp right and go down the hill to the pond. Parking here is ample. Hopefully, this will be a more reliable situation than the one in Alley – especially as we’re heading toward CBC time. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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] Western Tanager in Queens
Eric Miller again found Western Tanager this afternoon. I don't know whether to refer to it as the Western Tanager or a Western Tanager. The location is about a mile and a half drive from Alley Pond Environmental Center, or whatever that comes out to as the tanager might fly. The site is Crocheron Park in Bayside (also shown on Google Maps as John Golden Park). The specific location was on the back (south) side of Crocheron Pond (also called Golden Pond). >From the Cross Island Parkway, go west on Northern Blvd. to 221st Street (second light after the parkway). Turn right and continue northward until the end of 221st , then make a left onto Corbett Road. When you hit 35th Avenue, make a sharp right and go down the hill to the pond. Parking here is ample. Hopefully, this will be a more reliable situation than the one in Alley - especially as we're heading toward CBC time. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- 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] Western Tanager in Queens
Eric Miller again found Western Tanager this afternoon. I don't know whether to refer to it as the Western Tanager or a Western Tanager. The location is about a mile and a half drive from Alley Pond Environmental Center, or whatever that comes out to as the tanager might fly. The site is Crocheron Park in Bayside (also shown on Google Maps as John Golden Park). The specific location was on the back (south) side of Crocheron Pond (also called Golden Pond). >From the Cross Island Parkway, go west on Northern Blvd. to 221st Street (second light after the parkway). Turn right and continue northward until the end of 221st , then make a left onto Corbett Road. When you hit 35th Avenue, make a sharp right and go down the hill to the pond. Parking here is ample. Hopefully, this will be a more reliable situation than the one in Alley - especially as we're heading toward CBC time. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- 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] Western Tanager in Queens
Covering the cemeteries near Flushing Meadows for the Queens CBC, I had the luck of encountering a WESTERN TANAGER. The entrance to the Cedar Grove Cemetery is on the Long Island Expressway service road, just west of the Van Wyck Expressway / College Point Blvd. There is a building on the right shortly after the entrance. I had stopped by the sign for the restrooms, to look over a sparrow flock (which included a Chipping), when a couple of birds flew into the pine tree between the restrooms sign and the building. I was immediately drawn to a yellow one, thinking I had my goldfinch for the count. But the bird was twice that size and brighter than a goldfinch should be in winter. The bill was recognizable as that of a tanager. Then a glimpse of wing bars pretty much confirmed it as a Western. Red on the face would have cemented it even more, but I did not see any. Though a brief look, the bird was only about 30 feet up and out in the open. It then made a short flight to a tree on the west side of the road, and then I lost it in the dark conditions of the morning. The sighting was at about 8:30. I could have posted earlier, but this isn't Manhattan, where everything is a big deal. Just kidding. With most people doing counts elsewhere, the weather, and most likely anyone wanting a Western Tanager already having it this fall, it could wait. And since it flew, who knows anyway about finding it? I contacted the rest of my party, and they had no luck a couple of hours later. What isn't the reason for waiting - and shouldn't be - is keeping it secret in order to spring it at the compilation. In this age of instant communication front the field, I hope no one does that anymore. Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- 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/ --
