Thank you, Patricia, for getting the word out on the Yellow-headed Blackbird.
Fly-by birds are obviously difficult to re-find, but the one dimensional set up on the barrier rewards checking all the usual traps and gathering spots down-stream from the point where one is seen. It was an interesting morning at RMSP. I was disappointed to pull up and find it 69 F (it had been 62 F in Bay Shore, across the bay), indicative of how light the northwest winds were (2 mph at times, maxing out at no more than 6). But it quickly became evident that a variety of nocturnal migrants were present and doing their morning flights, and that small numbers of diurnal migrants were moving, too. Besides the blackbird and the Dickcissel, highlights included a total of five Solitary Sandpipers, 28 Yellow Warblers, 9 American Redstarts, 6 Northern Waterthrushes, 3 Black-and-white Warblers, and a Magnolia Warbler. There was a light flight of Barn and Tree Swallows, plus a handful of Chimney Swifts and a Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Typical migrants of early fall, such as Eastern Kingbird, Cedar Waxwing, Bobolink, Red-winged Blackbird, and Baltimore Oriole were all encountered repeatedly, but in modest numbers. I did two stationary one hour counts from Field 2, then another hour around and at the Fire Island Hawkwatch platform, east of Field 5. Regarding the hawkwatch, I saw zero migrating hawks. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38798866 http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38798999 http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38799072 Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Patricia Lindsay [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 9:20 AM To: NYS Birds Subject: [nysbirds-l] Migrants at Robert Moses SP, Suffolk Co. Shai Mitra reports that among a nice variety of migrants moving on the morning's cold front, a Dickcissel was found near the toll booths at Field 2, and a Yellow-headed Blackbird flew over east to west high over the boardwalk at Field 5. Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
