BIRDCHAT for Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Messages are displayed in the order they were received.  Subject  From  Time   Free BirdBase and BirdArea updates   SBSP(AT)aol.com   11:08am   Last week in Manhattan: some birds   Barbara Ward    4:18pm   Re: Last week in Manhattan: some birds   Steve Moore   5:55pm   Provence April 2008 trip narrative   Rick Wright   9:12pm

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Subject: Free BirdBase and BirdArea updates
From: SBSP(AT)aol.com
Date: 29 Apr 2008 11:08am

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Subject: Last week in Manhattan:  some birds
From: Barbara Ward <birdnotes(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 29 Apr 2008 4:18pm

We spent 10 days in our daughter's apt. on E. 119th.  There's a pair of 
kestrels around on neighboring antennas, seem likely to be nesting 
nearby (they did last year).  We also spotted 2 mockingbirds; one (prob. 
male) sang loudly at night and in the AM from trees in backyards on the 
block.  There were cormorants and great egrets moving back and forth 
across the island morning and night, too; crows and a few distant gulls, 
and lots of rock pigeons and house sparrows.

In 1952 Dick regularly crossed Madison Sq. Park in the mornings on his 
way to work.  He noticed some paraplegics with binoculars in the spring 
and eventually asked them what they were looking at...they pointed out a 
yellow-bellied sapsucker and several ovenbirds!  That got him hooked 
right away, and we've been birders ever since.  Last Friday (April 25) 
we went to Madison Sq. for old times' sake.  It doesn't have nearly as 
much cover as years ago, but while I was looking around from a bench I 
spotted a hermit thrush in the shrubs!

Barb and Dick Ward
Itinerant birders from Eastpointe, MI

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Subject: Re: Last week in Manhattan:  some birds
From: "Steve Moore" <steve(AT)birdwatchradio.com>
Date: 29 Apr 2008 5:55pm

Barbara,
Thanks for the report.  So you officially became birders in 1952?   How cool 
that despite the years, NYC still has it's birding magic and charm....and 
some (lots) of great birds.
Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Ward" <birdnotes(AT)COMCAST.NET>
To: <BIRDCHAT(AT)LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:18 PM
Subject: [BIRDCHAT] Last week in Manhattan: some birds

> We spent 10 days in our daughter's apt. on E. 119th.  There's a pair of 
> kestrels around on neighboring antennas, seem likely to be nesting nearby 
> (they did last year).  We also spotted 2 mockingbirds; one (prob. male) 
> sang loudly at night and in the AM from trees in backyards on the block. 
> There were cormorants and great egrets moving back and forth across the 
> island morning and night, too; crows and a few distant gulls, and lots of 
> rock pigeons and house sparrows.
>
> In 1952 Dick regularly crossed Madison Sq. Park in the mornings on his way 
> to work.  He noticed some paraplegics with binoculars in the spring and 
> eventually asked them what they were looking at...they pointed out a 
> yellow-bellied sapsucker and several ovenbirds!  That got him hooked right 
> away, and we've been birders ever since.  Last Friday (April 25) we went 
> to Madison Sq. for old times' sake.  It doesn't have nearly as much cover 
> as years ago, but while I was looking around from a bench I spotted a 
> hermit thrush in the shrubs!
>
> Barb and Dick Ward
> Itinerant birders from Eastpointe, MI
>
> BirdChat Guidelines: http://www.ksu.edu/audubon/chatguidelines.html
> Archives: http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html
> 

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Subject: Provence April 2008 trip narrative
From: "Rick Wright" <birdaz(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 29 Apr 2008 9:12pm

Please drop me an e privately if you'd like a copy of the list and trip
narrative from my recent "Chirps and Churches" tour of Mediterranean France.
A brief summary and a few photos will be appearing over the next few days on
my b-log, birdaz.com.
All the best,
Rick
Tucson / Hamilton, NY

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Rick Wright

Managing Director, WINGS
http://wingsbirds.com
http://birdaz.com, http://birdaz.com/blog

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