http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/ eBirds NYC - bird sightings around NYC Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:28:32 GMT prosbird@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7205 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7205 Appearing on Channel 13 is a program on Hummingbirds _http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/_ (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/) Sunday, January 10 — 08:00pm 13 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:17:19 GMT Rafael Guillermo Campos-Ramírez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7204 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7204 Date: 05 January 2010 Observer: Rafael Campos R. Site: Canarsie Pier, Brooklyn, NY After my visit to JBWR, on my way home, I made a turn into Canarsie. Cold, Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:42:07 GMT Rafael Guillermo Campos-Ramírez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7203 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7203 Date: 05 January 2010 Site: Jamaica Bay WR; NY Observer: Rafael Campos R. Beautiful day, blue skies, but cold, cold.  It was an excuse to go birding, and JBWR Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:02:04 GMT Robert Lewis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7202 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7202 I'm surprised no one has responded.  I'll report what I know. I searched for the gull on Saturday morning.  The wind and cold were brutal.  I was there from Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:41:54 GMT Will http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7201 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7201 We had a fantastic New Years day at Greenwich Point Park. We were surprised by dozens of Old Squaw. I got some good pictures of Horned Grebe and Ruddy Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:27:55 GMT mikehigg@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7200 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7200 Has anyone been to the mew gull site? While I would like to know if it has been seen Sunday or today, I am much more interested in the parking situation. Did Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:18:02 GMT Patricia Pollock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7199 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7199 Sunday (brr-rr), 1/3/10 Pat Pollock  3 frolicking Fox Sparrows at Muggers Walk (thanks to excellent eye of Bob DeC) 1 (F) Hooded Merganser SE corner of Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:55:27 GMT Richard Guthrie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7198 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7198 Some of us are planning to come to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn tomorrow (Tuesday - January 5) to try to get at that Common Gull that has been reported. In order to Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:53:58 GMT Gregory Kunkel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7197 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7197 Here is part of a video I took at about the same time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eTXPyoaBJw                      Greg Kunkel ... From: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:42:32 GMT towhee2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7196 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7196 I saw our resident Eastern Towhee today at 330 East 20th St., Main. Stuyvesant Town Cove Ducks included: 4 male Buffleheads, 6 Ruddy Ducks, 1 Black Duck and 2 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:09:21 GMT Marie Winn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7195 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7195 Rebekah Creshkoff writes: a pair of Monk Parakeets has taken up residence along the Hudson River Greenway (aka the bike path) at about 154th St. and Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:46:10 GMT Jack Meyer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7194 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7194 Patricia Craig & I took a short walk through the ramble early this morning. The paths were mostly good, but there were some spots of black ice, sometimes Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:45:35 GMT Corey Finger http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7193 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7193 A three hour stroll from the eastern end of Forest Park to Strack Pond (on the west side of Woodhaven) and back netted mostly the expected species, though Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:33:17 GMT mikehigg@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7192 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7192 The black guillemot was seen by mob this morning in Bullhead Bay in Southampton.  It was still there at 10:45 when we left.Mike Higgiston [Non-text portions Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:43:33 GMT Rafael Guillermo Campos-Ramírez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7191 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc/message/7191 Date: 01 January 2010 Site: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Kings Co.; NY Observer: Rafael Campos R. As I do every year since I moved to Park Slope, the first day of