Re: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Red-necked Phalarope and other birds there shaky video

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:45:26 -0700

The blog Jeff refers to makes a statement: 

This guy is way out of his range which is normally the arctic and northern coastal regions. 

which I'd like to modify a bit. Yes, they breed in northern Canada and Alaska (and the Old World arctic as well), and they winter on the open ocean among floating weeds, largely in the tropics from what I've read. They typically are found during migration along the coasts of North America, but we regularly find a few each year at Montezuma NWR, which can be an excellent place for shorebirds, and sometimes around the south end of Cayuga Lake, especially if there are mats of floating weeds. However sightings in our area are overwhelmingly during the southbound migration. What's rare was seeing this species here in spring, thus in the breeding plumage, but this bird is right on time for spring migration. 

Why do we see them in the fall, not the spring?  In the fall there are more birds, including all the young. They are taking their time rather than rushing to their breeding grounds, so we have more time to find them. Their plumage is more noticeable with lots of white. And maybe they are more in the mode of feeding on ponds during late summer and fall, since that's what they did on the breeding grounds. Perhaps they follow the coasts more in spring and more commonly just fly south over land in the fall, particularly young birds for whom "fly south till you get to the ocean" is a simple fall strategy. But I suspect a few Red-necked Phalaropes may fly through here in spring, but that it's also more unusual for them to touch down and be noticed. I think the low clouds and mist yesterday made this one decide to take a short break from flying north, and otherwise it might've stayed aloft until it reached Lake Ontario or beyond. 

A couple weeks ago one was also found on a pond east of Rochester, but I don't know about the weather then. For that matter, looking at the cumulative eBird map for the region, several of the isolated inland single-day sightings (Chautauqua, central PA...), as opposed to those along the Great Lakes, have been in spring. And I wonder what the weather was... 

As usual I'm interested in the others' thoughts and experience regarding these speculations.

--Dave Nutter



On May 24, 2012, at 07:40 PM, Jeff Poulin <[email protected]> wrote:

There is a great shot here:

Bird Species / Phalarope - Red-necked
Red-necked Phalarope - Rare Find
http://www.jerryacton.com/phalarope-red-necked/index.php

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Meena Haribal
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:36 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Red-necked Phalarope and other birds there shaky video

 

Hi all,

Here is a link to shaky unedited video of RNPH. My tripod was far away from where I was photographing him. Later, I went and got my tripod and took some more video, but they are right now too large to load.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk-kVCasC2Y&feature=autoplay&list=HL1337869942&playnext=1

 

Meena

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandy Podulka
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:32 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-necked Phalarope and other birds there

 

Still no Phalarope at 9:30 am. Sorry I was busy with my other springtime activity, gardening, and missed the emails last night! --Sandy Podulka

At 08:48 AM 5/24/2012, David McCartt wrote:

Unfortunately, I did not learn about this Red-necked Phalarope until until last night.  I stopped by this morning, 5/24, but alas it was NOT there.  I talked to a couple of residents and they had not seen it either today.  I did see 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS and 3 KILLDEER.

David McCartt

--- On Wed, 5/23/12, Jeff Gerbracht <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Jeff Gerbracht <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-necked Phalarope and other birds there

To: [email protected]

Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 7:39 PM

This pond has been good for shorebirds since it was created, I just

looked through my eBird reports and the first record I have is a

Lesser Yellowlegs on May 3 and Dunlin on May 5.  I've made this an

eBird hotspot so it'll be easier for everyone to find and enter their

birds.

   Cheers,

    Jeff

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:48 PM,  < [email protected]> wrote:

> I came home from errands to Shannon telling me about Steve's report of a

> Red-necked Phalarope in Brooktondale.  I went right back out....

> 

> As of 2 PM the bird was still at the small man made pond on Boiceville Rd,

> having been seen and photographed by a number of people. This is a

> beautiful breeding plumage bird that is very cooperative, coming and

> feeding within 20 yards of people at one point. Aside from the "birding

> community" there were at least 6 people who lived right there that got very

> good views and were interested in it.

> 

> Thanks Steve for finding and posting this wonderful bird!

> 

> Also there were Killdeer,  a Spotted Sandpiper, and 3 Least Sandpipers that

> I didn't notice until they finally flew.

> 

> The pond itself is only about 3 weeks old. I spoke with one of the

> contractors there and he said it is only 2 feet deep at it's deepest. As

> much as I regret what had been a great field for Woodcocks and field birds

> becoming a small development,  it seems the pond has at least some

> potential......

> 

> Bill

> Baker

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