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Re: Cormorant in Troy No/Goldeneye yes
Naomi Lloyd
I found one Northern Pintail there today with all the mallards, but no Cormorant. Naomi
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Re: Cormorant in Troy No/Goldeneye yes
Robert Nash
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Re: Cormorant in Troy
Robert Nash
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Austerlitz- Northern Saw-whet Owl
Austerlitz, Columbia, New York, US
Dec 23, 2019 4:35 AM - 4:37 AM Protocol: Stationary Checklist Comments: Heard on my porch baby monitor! Temperature was 38 F, calm. First time I have heard one near my yard. Maybe it was after rodents attracted to feeder seed spilled on the ground. 1 species Northern Saw-whet Owl 1 heard from a baby monitor on my porch called a few times was quiet for a while, then started up again. Nancy Kern
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Catbird, New Baltimore
John Kent
I just saw a Gray Catbird at Hannacroix Creek Preserve. It was in the swampy area on the east side of River Road where the trail crosses the road.
John Kent
Selkirk
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Schenectady CBC Results - 12/14/2019
Larry & Penny Alden
I’ve received the last results from the field parties out on last Saturday’s Schenectady CBC.
28 birders in nine field parties found a total of 58 species. The predicted rain was only a light mist most of the day, but liquid precipitation and warmer air on cold snow makes for fog, which made birding challenging.
Highlights (birds found by one or two field parties) included:
Wood Duck (1) American Black Duck (17) Green-winged Teal (1) Bufflehead (1) Red-breasted Merganser (1) Black Vulture (35) Sharp-shinned Hawk (2) Bald Eagle (4) Herring Gull (1) Eastern Screech-Owl (2) Great Horned Owl (2) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1) American Kestrel (1) Common Raven (1) Red-breasted Nuthatch (4) Brown Creeper (1) Winter Wren (2) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) Hermit Thrush (1) Cedar Waxwing (17) Chipping Sparrow (count week) Field Sparrow (1) Red-winged Blackbird (12)
Larry Alden Meadowdale (Halfway between Voorheesville and Altamont)
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Chipping Sparrows, Colonie- 12/21
Two Chipping Sparrows together eating millet seed off the ground in our yard this morning, along with a Song Sparrow. Large, apparently female, Cooper's Hawk is around too, keeping all the other birds on their digits. Pileated Woodpecker flyby as well.
Tom Williams Colonie
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SoRensCo CBC
Naomi Lloyd
Thank you to all who have volunteered to help with the count. I will be sending out forms and maps in a day or two.
Naomi Lloyd
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Bluebird nest and box
Jeremy Kirchman
I am on the lookout for a “weathered” looking Eastern Bluebird nest box that contains a nest for an exhibit on our state bird here at the New York State Museum, where I am overseeing a renovation of our Birds of New York exhibit hall. I thought perhaps someone in the hmbirds universe might have a previously inhabited box they haven’t cleaned out yet, that they would be willing to donate or trade me for a new box. Please contact me at my work email below if you think you can help. As part of this same project, all our “habitat group” dioramas have now been refurbished and reinterpreted, and I invite you all to stop by the NYSM and check it out. Big improvements!
Jeremy J. Kirchman Curator of Birds, New York State Museum Affiliate Professor of Biology, University at Albany 518 474 1441 jeremy.kirchman@...
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Saratoga CBC
Naomi Lloyd
Hey, if anyone wants to join us on the Hudson River Wrights Loop to Schuylerville section tomorrow, Bill Lee and I would be happy to have a 3rd in the car.
Naomi
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Chatham NY CBC SE Quadrant
Ghent, New York, US (42.293, -73.566)
Dec 14, 2019 10:46 AM Traveling 32.94 miles 324 minutes All birds reported? Yes Comments: Temperature 41 to 45 F fog brief sun mostly calm gray day windy after 4 pm .
11 Mallard 29 Wild Turkey -- Feeding under oak trees 39 Mourning Dove 4 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 9 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 67 Blue Jay 34 American Crow 1 Common Raven 41 Black-capped Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 105 European Starling 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 Eastern Bluebird 650 American Robin 77 Cedar Waxwing 15 House Sparrow 8 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 4 American Tree Sparrow 34 Dark-eyed Junco 13 White-throated Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 9 Northern Cardinal
Number of Taxa: 30
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Cormorant in Troy
Alan Mapes
Just had a double-created cormorant at the 123rd street boat launch in Troy, sitting on the old bridge piling. Hope it stays until the 4th. Alan Mapes Saratoga (soon)
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Albany County CBC Sector B
John Kent
Larry Alden and Tristan Lowery joined me today to cover Sector B of the Albany County CBC. The sector runs from Coeymans Landing to Meads Lane in Delmar. We had 41 species. The highlights:
Two Gray Catbirds - one at Elm Avenue Park, the other accompanied by a Chipping Sparrow at South Bethlehem Park
American Kestrel on Meads Lane
Merlin and Mute Swan at Coeymans Landing
Great Blue Heron at Elm Avenue Park
27 Red-tailed Hawks
Our most abundant species:
American Crow - 2,320
European Starling - 938
Rock Pigeon - 445
Canada Goose - 392
John Kent
Selkirk
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Re: Hermit Thrush, Guilderland
Steve Mesick
We had a Hermit Thrush on the rail trail near Aqueduct Park in Schenectady yesterday as well.
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Steve Mesick
On Dec 14, 2019, at 5:00 PM, Earthday49 via Groups.Io <Earthday49@...> wrote:
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King Eider - Orange County, NY
Richard Guthrie
For those not enrolled on any of the local alerts: A female KING EIDER was found yesterday and relocated this morning (Dec. 15th) at Sterling Lake. It is viewable from the road near the Sterling Forest Headquarters. --ichard Guthrie New Baltimore, The Greene County New York
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This week's destination: 12/19
Naomi Lloyd
This week's destination: Saratoga Christmas Bird Count. If you're participating, a big thank you! If you're not and you want to, contact Jean Holcomb at jeanh46@... Otherwise, see you next week! Naomi
On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 3:25:53 PM EDT, Naomi Lloyd via Groups.Io <naomi_kestrel@...> wrote: Hello birders - and welcome to the new additions to the list! I was pretty certain last week that I wanted to take our annual trip to Ames, Montgomery County, for Upland Sandpipers. But hey, they've been seen closer to home in Washington County! So let's meet at the Saratoga battlefield parking lot at 8:00am (google maps below) and head up to Dowmont Rd and the Grasslands trail. There have also been reports of Acadian Flycatcher on the Surrender March trail just south of Schuylerville, so we could make a stop there on the way back if we have time. Fingers crossed the drizzle will be over by then. The Grasslands trail is usually mowed short but take tick precautions just in case. Here's hoping last year's Clay-colored Sparrow and Sedge wren have returned (no reports yet of either). Naomi
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Hermit Thrush, Guilderland
Earthday49@...
Finically able to get a photo of the Hermit Thrush that has been present since late Nov. - Guilderland
Alan Schroeder
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Great Horned Owls, Salem
Scott Varney
I was putting up my Christmas Tree tonight and was "interrupted" again by 2 Great Horned Owls in my back yard...hooting up a storm! A very plain, deep-sounding woodsy the owl call (Hoo-hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo) but reminds me of how amazing this very large, avian predator really is! Stoked to still have the same pair in my yard for over a month now! Scott Varney Salem NY
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Hermit Thrush
Earthday49@...
A Hermit Thrush was seen again in Guilderland on E. Lydius St. on Dec. 11, 2019. This bird has been seen three times in the past two weeks.
Alan Schroeder Guilderland
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This week's destination: 12/12
Naomi Lloyd
Happy CBC season! Let's start at Tibbits Ave and move on for gulls along the Mohawk and check Flight Lock Rd. Meet in the big parking lot at the end of the road AT 9:00AM. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tibbits+Ave,+Green+Island,+NY/@42.748106,-73.6924087,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89de0fb5d98c7d49:0x2575c1037542c1eb!8m2!3d42.748106!4d-73.69022?hl=en&authuser=0 Naomi
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