Shane Blodgett & I found a Yellow Warbler on the Brooklyn NY CBC a
couple of years ago, thus a sighting after the middle of December, as
Seth Ausubel indicated ("more recent late records in NY") below in his
post.
Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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[message:]
> From: Seth Ausubel <[email protected]>
> Date: November 15, 2009 3:53:57 PM EST
> To: post NYSBirds <[email protected]>
> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Red-necked grebe, late yellow warbler, and
> waterfowl
> Reply-To: Seth Ausubel <[email protected]>
>
> A few interesting birds on a warm November day included a red-necked
> grebe scoped on Great South Bay from the fishing pier at Captree
> State Park, Suffolk County, and a very late yellow warbler, also at
> Captree. The warbler was in the brush on the north edge of the
> parking lot where an asphalt path leads to the middle of the fishing
> pier. "Bull's Birds of New York State" (1998) lists the extreme fall
> date for yellow warbler as 24 Oct, though I think there are some
> more recent late records in NY State and there are records into
> December and January in other northeastern states. The bird was
> bright yellow below with a faint diffuse orange on the breast, and
> bright greenish-yellow above including the crown. According to
> "Peterson's Field Guides - Warblers", by Dunn and Garrett, birds at
> this late date would be D. p. amnicola, or another of the northerly
> breeding sub-species, though this bird seemed very brightly colored,
> more like the coloration described for the locally breeding
> subspecies, D.p. aestiva.
>
> Waterfowling in Suffolk was slow. A female common goldeneye was at
> Connetquot River State Park. It took an Internet search for me to
> identify a male cape shelduck, which was at Belmont Lake State Park.
>
> Seth Ausubel
> Forest Hills, NY
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