Forwarding for Jim Pawlicki. Andy Guthrie Hamlin, NY
Begin forwarded message: > From: Bird observations from western New York <[email protected]> > Date: July 13, 2015 at 11:08:46 PM EDT > To: geneseebirds-l <[email protected]> > Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Probable Neotropic Cormorant, Buffalo Harbor 7/13 > Reply-To: [email protected] > > This evening around 7:15 pm, Dean DiTomasso and I watched a probable adult > Neotropic Cormorant sitting with about 475 Double-crested Cormorants on the > outermost breakwall in Buffalo Harbor as viewed from the tower at Erie Basin > Marina. The very small size is extremely distinctive, but that being said > there are "smaller" Double-crested Cormorants out there, while the effects of > position and lighting on sitting birds (due to uneveness in the breakwall > surface) can cause some Double-cresteds to look quite small at times. We had > the bird sitting up and preening somewhat off on its own initially, but later > next to a DCCO that flew in and landed near it. I also saw the bird briefly > in-flight and re-locating to another portion of the breakwall after the they > were flushed by a boat. It was present up until dark and evidently was > roosting on the breakwall with the group of Double-crested's and various > gulls and terns. > > The light there is best in the early morning and the best viewing of the > breakwalls is from the tower at Erie Basin Marina, but decent views of the > same outermost breakwall can be had from the hill at the end of Wilkeson > Point Park along Fuhrmann Blvd (in the outer harbor south of Erie Basin). If > the bird re-located to any of the other (closer) breakwalls, it should be > identifiable with 100% certainty through a scope, but I would obviously > recommend if anyone has use of a canoe, kayak, or boat that it would be more > than worth trying to get out there and document (photograph) the bird if you > are willing to do so. > > > Jim Pawlicki > > ----- > > James Pawlicki > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - [email protected] > https://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- 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/ --
