Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: December 02, 2017

2017-12-02 Thread Rick 
Juvenile ravens form winter groups, Heinrich conducted a fascinating field 
study to find out why.  I won't spoil the suspense for those who haven't read 
it. Better than a Ludlum novel, highly recommended 

Rick 


Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device


 Original message 
From: Lynn Bergmeyer <lynnbergme...@gmail.com> 
Date:12/02/2017  7:27 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: "& [NYSBIRDS]" <nysbird...@list.cornell.edu> 
Cc:  
Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: December 02, 2017 

What exactly does "winter nonbreeder group" mean?

On Dec 2, 2017 12:08 AM, "& [NYSBIRDS] digest" <nysbird...@list.cornell.edu>
wrote:

> NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Saturday, December 02, 2017.
>
> 1. The Egret
> 2. =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> 3. =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbmTigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==
> ?=
> 4. =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[ebirdsnyc]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 5. Breezy Point Lingering Migrants 11-29
> 6. =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[nysbirds-l]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 7. Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 8. Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 9. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 10. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 11. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 12. NYS eBird Hotspots: State, Counties & Locations Updated (Dec/'17)
> 13. Re: Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 14. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 15. RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Dec 2017
> 16. NYC/Long Island Rarity Roundup This Weekend
> 17. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 18. NYC Area RBA: 1 December 2017
> 19. Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 20. Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 21. Re: [ebirdsnyc] Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 22. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
>
> --
>
> Subject: The Egret
> From: Larry Trachtenberg <trachtenb...@amsllp.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:07:20 +
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
>
> I'd like to share a  passage from a wonderful novel I recently read, "The
> Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers, which takes its place alongside Tim Obrien's
> "The Things They Carried", Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead", and
> Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"  -- this time the setting is
> the Iraq war. The protagonist is by a stream near his Richmond, VA home --
> it's an magical experience most birders have had or at least can envision
> with a large wader but just can't express nearly as well:
>
> "My feet were in the water, and the river ran docilely by and I was hardly
> a speck on the landscape and I was glad. An egret flew just over my
> shoulder and skimmed the water so close and I thought there was no way a
> body could be so close to the edge of a thing and stay there and be in
> control. But the tips of its wings skimmed along the water just the same.
> The egret didn't seem to mind what I believed, and it tilted some and
> disappeared into the glare of the gone sun and it was full of grace."
>
> I see that Brett Bonkamp's brilliant bit of Hammond's flycatcher satire
> has been censored from the archives. Thus, it seems that when posting
> especially as the Holidays approach and an insane 2017 comes to a close --
> and while I enjoy a good put down as much as the next person -- perhaps we
> should all give a listen once again to John Prine's "People Putting People
> Down". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0VmRR8FHU  Or better yet, spend
> some time admiring his amazing canon listening to Sam Stone, (apropos the
> war novels, I guess), Hello in There, Souvenirs, Paradise, Angel from
> Montgomery or Lake Marie.
>
> Good flycatchers to all.
>
>
> L. Trachtenberg
> Ossining
>
>
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> From: Anders Peltomaa <anders.pelto...@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:05:55 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
> 9:46am Hammonds at maintenance south end #birdcp via @raikbar
>
> It's Continuing. Start weekend planning upstaters...
>
> Anders Peltomaa
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbm
> TigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==?=
> From: nathan o'reilly <natro...@hotmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:37:47 +
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> Anders and wonder dog Bonnie will have the bird waiting on all of the
> upsta

Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: December 02, 2017

2017-12-02 Thread Rick 
Juvenile ravens form winter groups, Heinrich conducted a fascinating field 
study to find out why.  I won't spoil the suspense for those who haven't read 
it. Better than a Ludlum novel, highly recommended 

Rick 


Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device


 Original message 
From: Lynn Bergmeyer  
Date:12/02/2017  7:27 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: "& [NYSBIRDS]"  
Cc:  
Subject: Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: December 02, 2017 

What exactly does "winter nonbreeder group" mean?

On Dec 2, 2017 12:08 AM, "& [NYSBIRDS] digest" 
wrote:

> NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Saturday, December 02, 2017.
>
> 1. The Egret
> 2. =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> 3. =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbmTigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==
> ?=
> 4. =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[ebirdsnyc]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 5. Breezy Point Lingering Migrants 11-29
> 6. =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[nysbirds-l]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 7. Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 8. Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 9. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 10. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 11. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 12. NYS eBird Hotspots: State, Counties & Locations Updated (Dec/'17)
> 13. Re: Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 14. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 15. RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Dec 2017
> 16. NYC/Long Island Rarity Roundup This Weekend
> 17. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 18. NYC Area RBA: 1 December 2017
> 19. Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 20. Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 21. Re: [ebirdsnyc] Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 22. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
>
> --
>
> Subject: The Egret
> From: Larry Trachtenberg 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:07:20 +
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
>
> I'd like to share a  passage from a wonderful novel I recently read, "The
> Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers, which takes its place alongside Tim Obrien's
> "The Things They Carried", Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead", and
> Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"  -- this time the setting is
> the Iraq war. The protagonist is by a stream near his Richmond, VA home --
> it's an magical experience most birders have had or at least can envision
> with a large wader but just can't express nearly as well:
>
> "My feet were in the water, and the river ran docilely by and I was hardly
> a speck on the landscape and I was glad. An egret flew just over my
> shoulder and skimmed the water so close and I thought there was no way a
> body could be so close to the edge of a thing and stay there and be in
> control. But the tips of its wings skimmed along the water just the same.
> The egret didn't seem to mind what I believed, and it tilted some and
> disappeared into the glare of the gone sun and it was full of grace."
>
> I see that Brett Bonkamp's brilliant bit of Hammond's flycatcher satire
> has been censored from the archives. Thus, it seems that when posting
> especially as the Holidays approach and an insane 2017 comes to a close --
> and while I enjoy a good put down as much as the next person -- perhaps we
> should all give a listen once again to John Prine's "People Putting People
> Down". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0VmRR8FHU  Or better yet, spend
> some time admiring his amazing canon listening to Sam Stone, (apropos the
> war novels, I guess), Hello in There, Souvenirs, Paradise, Angel from
> Montgomery or Lake Marie.
>
> Good flycatchers to all.
>
>
> L. Trachtenberg
> Ossining
>
>
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> From: Anders Peltomaa 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:05:55 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
> 9:46am Hammonds at maintenance south end #birdcp via @raikbar
>
> It's Continuing. Start weekend planning upstaters...
>
> Anders Peltomaa
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbm
> TigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==?=
> From: nathan o'reilly 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:37:47 +
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> Anders and wonder dog Bonnie will have the bird waiting on all of the
> upstaters early tomorrow morning!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Anders Peltomaa anders.pelto...@gmail.com<
> mailto:anders.pelto...@gmail.com> [ebirdsnyc]  yahoogrou

Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: December 02, 2017

2017-12-02 Thread Lynn Bergmeyer 
What exactly does "winter nonbreeder group" mean?

On Dec 2, 2017 12:08 AM, "& [NYSBIRDS] digest" 
wrote:

> NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Saturday, December 02, 2017.
>
> 1. The Egret
> 2. =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> 3. =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbmTigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==
> ?=
> 4. =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[ebirdsnyc]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 5. Breezy Point Lingering Migrants 11-29
> 6. =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[nysbirds-l]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 7. Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 8. Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 9. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 10. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 11. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 12. NYS eBird Hotspots: State, Counties & Locations Updated (Dec/'17)
> 13. Re: Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 14. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 15. RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Dec 2017
> 16. NYC/Long Island Rarity Roundup This Weekend
> 17. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 18. NYC Area RBA: 1 December 2017
> 19. Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 20. Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 21. Re: [ebirdsnyc] Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 22. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
>
> --
>
> Subject: The Egret
> From: Larry Trachtenberg 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:07:20 +
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
>
> I'd like to share a  passage from a wonderful novel I recently read, "The
> Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers, which takes its place alongside Tim Obrien's
> "The Things They Carried", Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead", and
> Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"  -- this time the setting is
> the Iraq war. The protagonist is by a stream near his Richmond, VA home --
> it's an magical experience most birders have had or at least can envision
> with a large wader but just can't express nearly as well:
>
> "My feet were in the water, and the river ran docilely by and I was hardly
> a speck on the landscape and I was glad. An egret flew just over my
> shoulder and skimmed the water so close and I thought there was no way a
> body could be so close to the edge of a thing and stay there and be in
> control. But the tips of its wings skimmed along the water just the same.
> The egret didn't seem to mind what I believed, and it tilted some and
> disappeared into the glare of the gone sun and it was full of grace."
>
> I see that Brett Bonkamp's brilliant bit of Hammond's flycatcher satire
> has been censored from the archives. Thus, it seems that when posting
> especially as the Holidays approach and an insane 2017 comes to a close --
> and while I enjoy a good put down as much as the next person -- perhaps we
> should all give a listen once again to John Prine's "People Putting People
> Down". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0VmRR8FHU  Or better yet, spend
> some time admiring his amazing canon listening to Sam Stone, (apropos the
> war novels, I guess), Hello in There, Souvenirs, Paradise, Angel from
> Montgomery or Lake Marie.
>
> Good flycatchers to all.
>
>
> L. Trachtenberg
> Ossining
>
>
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> From: Anders Peltomaa 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:05:55 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
> 9:46am Hammonds at maintenance south end #birdcp via @raikbar
>
> It's Continuing. Start weekend planning upstaters...
>
> Anders Peltomaa
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbm
> TigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==?=
> From: nathan o'reilly 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:37:47 +
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> Anders and wonder dog Bonnie will have the bird waiting on all of the
> upstaters early tomorrow morning!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Anders Peltomaa anders.pelto...@gmail.com<
> mailto:anders.pelto...@gmail.com> [ebirdsnyc]  yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> 9:46am Hammonds at maintenance south end #birdcp via @raikbar
>
> It's Continuing. Start weekend planning upstaters...
>
> Anders Peltomaa
>
> __._,_.___
> 
> Posted by: Anders Peltomaa >
> 
> Reply via web post conversations/messages/17881;_ylc=X3oDMTJydm91czRtBF9TAzk3MzU5Nz
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> reply=17881> •   Reply to sender

Re:[nysbirds-l] nysbirds-l digest: December 02, 2017

2017-12-02 Thread Lynn Bergmeyer 
What exactly does "winter nonbreeder group" mean?

On Dec 2, 2017 12:08 AM, "& [NYSBIRDS] digest" 
wrote:

> NYSBIRDS-L Digest for Saturday, December 02, 2017.
>
> 1. The Egret
> 2. =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> 3. =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbmTigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==
> ?=
> 4. =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[ebirdsnyc]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 5. Breezy Point Lingering Migrants 11-29
> 6. =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[nysbirds-l]_Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher-_YES?=
> 7. Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 8. Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 9. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 10. RE: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 11. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 12. NYS eBird Hotspots: State, Counties & Locations Updated (Dec/'17)
> 13. Re: Prothonotary Warbler - Yes
> 14. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 15. RBA Buffalo Bird Report 01 Dec 2017
> 16. NYC/Long Island Rarity Roundup This Weekend
> 17. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
> 18. NYC Area RBA: 1 December 2017
> 19. Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 20. Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 21. Re: [ebirdsnyc] Re: Ramble Map with Named Locations
> 22. Re: Astonishing High Count for Common Raven, Suffolk Co., LI
>
> --
>
> Subject: The Egret
> From: Larry Trachtenberg 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:07:20 +
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
>
> I'd like to share a  passage from a wonderful novel I recently read, "The
> Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers, which takes its place alongside Tim Obrien's
> "The Things They Carried", Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead", and
> Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front"  -- this time the setting is
> the Iraq war. The protagonist is by a stream near his Richmond, VA home --
> it's an magical experience most birders have had or at least can envision
> with a large wader but just can't express nearly as well:
>
> "My feet were in the water, and the river ran docilely by and I was hardly
> a speck on the landscape and I was glad. An egret flew just over my
> shoulder and skimmed the water so close and I thought there was no way a
> body could be so close to the edge of a thing and stay there and be in
> control. But the tips of its wings skimmed along the water just the same.
> The egret didn't seem to mind what I believed, and it tilted some and
> disappeared into the glare of the gone sun and it was full of grace."
>
> I see that Brett Bonkamp's brilliant bit of Hammond's flycatcher satire
> has been censored from the archives. Thus, it seems that when posting
> especially as the Holidays approach and an insane 2017 comes to a close --
> and while I enjoy a good put down as much as the next person -- perhaps we
> should all give a listen once again to John Prine's "People Putting People
> Down". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0VmRR8FHU  Or better yet, spend
> some time admiring his amazing canon listening to Sam Stone, (apropos the
> war novels, I guess), Hello in There, Souvenirs, Paradise, Angel from
> Montgomery or Lake Marie.
>
> Good flycatchers to all.
>
>
> L. Trachtenberg
> Ossining
>
>
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Hammond=E2=80=99s_Flycatcher=2D_YES?=
> From: Anders Peltomaa 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:05:55 -0500
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
> 9:46am Hammonds at maintenance south end #birdcp via @raikbar
>
> It's Continuing. Start weekend planning upstaters...
>
> Anders Peltomaa
>
> --
>
> Subject: =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtlYmlyZHNueWNdIEhhbW1vbm
> TigJlzIEZseWNhdGNoZXItIFlFUw==?=
> From: nathan o'reilly 
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:37:47 +
> X-Message-Number: 3
>
> Anders and wonder dog Bonnie will have the bird waiting on all of the
> upstaters early tomorrow morning!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Anders Peltomaa anders.pelto...@gmail.com<
> mailto:anders.pelto...@gmail.com> [ebirdsnyc]  yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> 9:46am Hammonds at maintenance south end #birdcp via @raikbar
>
> It's Continuing. Start weekend planning upstaters...
>
> Anders Peltomaa
>
> __._,_.___
> 
> Posted by: Anders Peltomaa  anders.pelto...@gmail.com>>
> 
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