Corn Crake? Seriously? Look again and check for a similar species found here. Corn Crake is generally not found here.
-----Original Message----- From: Mackie Burkholz <[email protected]> To: NYSbirds-L <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, May 21, 2013 8:03 pm Subject: [nysbirds-l] A little corn crake help Hello all, Fancy I give this a try being new to this region. Haven’t got a go at the surroundings until Isettled for a bit, but I am chuffed as nuts with Riverhead. We have the starlings too! I thought for a while I’d be here for adonkeys years without those buggers. They really bring a smile to my face and since that it feels natural Ithought I would carry on my novice hobby here in the States. I have the Stokes guide now, and these photosare top drawer! So intrigued to find allof these beautiful birds; I swear I’ve read it twice. The corn crakes sure do stick to the water’sedge I must say; much differently than my observations from back home. As a young lad we would chase them off ourtrolleys until they flushed. I also sawmy first heron at the state park! My newbirds of recent in the skirts of Riverhead have been: Yellow warbler (Brilliant red streaks about the chest ina wooded area behind Spicy’s Barbeque) Grey Catbird (what a blast this one’s vocalization is) Herring gull (many of them eating in a parking lot atWal-Mart) Common yellow throat (in some thickets around East EndArts) And a few others I can’t remember, but I will re-post when Ido. I’m taking a mickey with every newdiscovery. I mastered the birds fromback home and it just got boring, but to see them here warms my cockles. Back home is about the time the corn crake’sare hatching young and it has always been a rite of Summer for me. Is Long Island great for corn crakebreeding? Having only seen one mixingabout for just a bit I’d like to spend the holiday weekend corn crakewatching. If I could get a peek at themwith their young I’d be about on top of the earth. Traveling to Ithaca after this mini-vacation tore-settle and finish school; so any help would be great! Cheers! -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
