I thoroughly enjoyed the original post, trying to decipher the British colloquialisms! Apparently Mackie is looking for a rail, our equivalent to a corn crake.... however, the corn crake prefers grassland habitats, while our North American rails are found in marshes. Mackie, I suggest doing a query on eBird to find where rails have been seen around Riverhead. Feel free to message me privately if you want more info.
Best, Larry Larry Federman Education Coordinator Audubon New York Rheinstrom Hill, Buttercup Farm, and RamsHorn-Livingston Sanctuaries and Centers From: Elizabeth D Poole Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:08 PM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [nysbirds-l] A little corn crake help 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 I settled 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 a donkeys years without those buggers. They really bring a smile to my face and since that it feels natural I thought I would carry on my novice hobby here in the States. I have the Stokes guide now, and these photos are top drawer! So intrigued to find all of these beautiful birds; I swear I’ve read it twice. The corn crakes sure do stick to the water’s edge I must say; much differently than my observations from back home. As a young lad we would chase them off our trolleys until they flushed. I also saw my first heron at the state park! My new birds of recent in the skirts of Riverhead have been: Yellow warbler (Brilliant red streaks about the chest in a 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 at Wal-Mart) Common yellow throat (in some thickets around East End Arts) And a few others I can’t remember, but I will re-post when I do. I’m taking a mickey with every new discovery. I mastered the birds from back home and it just got boring, but to see them here warms my cockles. Back home is about the time the corn crake’s are hatching young and it has always been a rite of Summer for me. Is Long Island great for corn crake breeding? Having only seen one mixing about for just a bit I’d like to spend the holiday weekend corn crake watching. If I could get a peek at them with their young I’d be about on top of the earth. Traveling to Ithaca after this mini-vacation to re-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: 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/ --
