Begin forwarded message: > From: Bird observations from western New York <[email protected]> > Date: July 14, 2015 at 11:38:53 PM EDT > To: geneseebirds-l <[email protected]> > Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] American Avocets, Willet; no cormorant - Buffalo > Harbor 7/14 > Reply-To: [email protected] > > The probable Neotropic Cormorant was not seen today at Buffalo Harbor, > checking both in the morning and evening hours. There were fewer cormorants > in the morning, but the numbers built-up through the day and 598 were sitting > on the outermost breakwall by 6 pm, while there were another couple hundred > scattered around between the (red-roofed) water intake building, reef > lighthouse, and Donnelly's pier. The birds on the reef lighthouse are > extremely distant and usually packed in rather solidly, so the bird could go > easily missed there. > > The flock of 4 American Avocets remained into the evening on the gravel spit > at the north end of Donnelly's pier. Peter Yoerg also found a Willet on the > Bird Island Pier breakwall extension (out from the south end of LaSalle Park) > in the evening around 8:30 pm or so. > > > Jim Pawlicki > > > ----- > > James Pawlicki > [email protected] > >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Bird observations from western New York >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I quickly edited and threw a few photos of the cormorant up on flickr here: >> www.flickr.com/photos/jmpawli10 >> >> The one photo actually shows a pale area near the bird's rear >> auriculars/neck that could be white plumes that would be diagnostic for >> Neotropic Cormorant, and at one point I thought I saw this in the field, but >> could not be certain (was using additional digital zoom thru the camera >> phone for that photo). That being said, I would go as far to say that I am >> 99% certain the bird is a Neotropic based on size/proportions alone, but of >> course it would be nice to get a bit better confirmation in better light and >> at a distance of less than a mile away (tower to breakwall is about 0.95 mi). >> >> >> Jim Pawlicki >> >> >> ----- >> >> James Pawlicki >> [email protected] >> >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Bird observations from western New York >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - [email protected] >> https://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ --
