WRS Survey Summary
[Login] to see full survey details.| Route | Pine Island area, New York |
| Location | New York, USA |
| Survey date | 2021-02-17 |
| Survey ID | 1116 |
Survey Conditions
| Survey Date: 2021-02-17 | Start Time: 10:40:00 | End Time: 17:40:00 |
|---|---|---|
| Temperature | 4 (C) | 0 (C) |
| Cloud Cover | 80 (%) | 85 (%) |
| Visibility | 16 (km) | 16 (km) |
| Precipitation | 0: None | 0: None |
| Wind Speed | 3: 12-19 km/h (8-12 mph) | 0: less than 1km/h (Calm) |
| Wind Direction | NW | --- |
| Water | Partly frozen | Partly frozen |
| Snow Depth | 8 (in) | 2 (in) |
| Observer 1 | Ajit Antony | |
| Observer 2 | Liza Antony | |
| Observer 3 | ||
| Observer 4 | ||
| Notes | We did not go on Indiana Avenue as there was enough snow on the dirt farm road that we were concerned our sedan not be able to go through safely without getting stuck. There was no access to Cedar Swamp Road as there was a large pile of snow across the road. While we could go on Skinners Lane, again there was enough snow on Skinners Tract so that we could not bird there or on Iris Road. We stayed late at the east end of Celery Avenue (which is close to Indiana Road where we usually observe for SE – had snow on it) until 10 minutes after sunset to find SE but were unsuccessful. The first New York state sighting of Ferruginous Hawk was on January 16, 2021 and it had been seen almost daily until February 14, 2021. We did not see it today but Ken McDermott an excellent birder saw it https://ebird.org/checklist/S81844480 An immature GE which has been seen on and off in the area, but which we didn't see today was seen by 3 birders: https://ebird.org/checklist/S81850023 https://ebird.org/checklist/S81832476 https://ebird.org/checklist/S81839064 | |
Survey Sightings
| Species | Time | Count | Behavior | Morph | Age | Sex | Habitat | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BV (Black Vulture) | 10:50:00 | 2 | Flying | •developed | |||||
| Notes: Jessup Switch Road. To the east past the cell tower. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 10:55:00 | 2 | Flying | Adult | •developed•forested | ||||
| Notes: Jessup Switch Road. NE past the cell tower. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 11:10:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Adult | •roadsides•stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On CR 25 Pumpkin Swamp Rd on a tree along the road 50 m NW. Flew. | |||||||||
| TV (Turkey Vulture) | 11:15:00 | 1 | Soaring | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: CR 25 Pumpkin Swamp Rd. was blocked ahead by a tractor-trailer partly off the road blocking both lanes, so we had to turn around. To SSW. | |||||||||
| BE (Bald Eagle) | 11:15:00 | 1 | Flying | Immature | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: CR 25 Pumpkin Swamp Rd. was blocked ahead by a tractor-trailer partly off the road blocking both lanes, so we had to turn around. To SSW. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 11:30:00 | 1 | Perched | •forested•stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Maloney Lane. 500 m NW in a tree. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 11:35:00 | 1 | Perched | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Cross Road at road leading to Secure Center. In a tree 100 m NE. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 11:40:00 | 2 | Flying | Adult | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: Junction of John Downey Lane and Maple Avenue. Flying together, West of us. | |||||||||
| BV (Black Vulture) | 11:45:00 | 2 | Soaring | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Maple Avenue just south of Gurda Lane, to NW. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 11:45:00 | 1 | Flying | Immature | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Maple Avenue just south of Gurda Lane, to NW. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 11:45:00 | 1 | Flying | Adult | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Maple Avenue just south of Gurda Lane, to NW. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 12:00:00 | 1 | Flying | Adult | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Celery Ave. at Bialas Farm, to NW. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 12:00:00 | 1 | Perched | Adult | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Celery Ave. at Bialas Farm, to NW. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 12:00:00 | 1 | Flying | Immature | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Celery Ave. at Bialas Farm, to NW. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 12:15:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Immature | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Celery Ave. junction of paved and unpaved road. | |||||||||
| BV (Black Vulture) | 12:25:00 | 1 | Soaring | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Cross Road at Cross Road and Goshen Secure Center - on the way back. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 12:40:00 | 3 | Flying | Adult | •dirt agriculture | ||||
| Notes: At the beginning of Indiana Road, to NW. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 13:10:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Light | Adult | Female | •stubble agriculture | ||
| Notes: On Big Island Road. Initially perched on a tree NW 200 m -- we thought it a crow. Flew, and was obvious with a Black belly, single dark tail band, flew toward the western part of the fields off Indiana Road. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 13:15:00 | 1 | Perched | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On CR 6 Pulaski Hwy. just before Indiana Road, seen 100 m south in a tree, as we drove. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 13:15:00 | 1 | Perched | Light | Adult | Male | •dirt agriculture•stubble agriculture | ||
| Notes: At the beginning of Indiana Road, perched on a tree, 700 m West. Darker chest and light belly, light tail. | |||||||||
| AK (American Kestrel) | 13:25:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Adult | Male | •dirt agriculture•stubble agriculture | |||
| Notes: At Pulaski Highway CR 6 and Morgiewicz Ln, 75 m West, landed on a wire almost above us. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 13:35:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Light | Adult | Female | •wetland/pond/marsh/riparian•forested | ||
| Notes: On Skinner's Lane, perched in a tree 75 m NE, flew to another tree to the East. Black belly, black terminal tail band dorsally with light dusky subterminal band, black line behind eye on white head. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 13:55:00 | 1 | Perched | Immature | •dirt agriculture | ||||
| Notes: Pulaski Highway CR six and Sidoti Ln, perched on a wire 50 m to the West. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 14:00:00 | 1 | Perched | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, in a tree 950 m SSE. | |||||||||
| BE (Bald Eagle) | 14:00:00 | 1 | Perched | Adult | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, in a tree 950 m SSE. | |||||||||
| BE (Bald Eagle) | 14:00:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Immature | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, flew south to a tree 950 m SSE with an adult BE. It then flew away and returned 15 minutes later. White-bellied. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 14:05:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, in a tree 700 m East. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 14:10:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Light | Adult | Female | •stubble agriculture | ||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, in a tree 700 m East. Black Road heavy belly band. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 14:10:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Light | Adult | Male | •stubble agriculture | ||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, flew in to a tree 700 m East, same tree as adult female. No dark belly, multiple tail bands with broader subterminal band. Both of them flew away when an adult landed on the same tree. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 14:20:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Light | Adult | Male | •stubble agriculture | ||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, east of the field. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 14:20:00 | 1 | Flying | Dark | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, chasing an RT which had just caught a vole, flew off to the NW until it could not be seen any longer. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 14:25:00 | 1 | Perched | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, in a tree East of the field. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 14:35:00 | 2 | Flying Perched | Dark | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, flew in from the West and landed in the field East. of us. | |||||||||
| BE (Bald Eagle) | 14:40:00 | 1 | Flying | Immature | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: On Glenwood Road, flying SW, with dark belly, white underwing-pits, whitish tail -- likely juvenile. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 14:50:00 | 1 | Perched | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: Off Firehouse Lane, 350 m NW perched in a tree. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 14:55:00 | 1 | Soaring | •forested•developed | |||||
| Notes: On Liberty Corners Road, soaring to the SE. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 15:05:00 | 1 | Flying | •wetland/pond/marsh/riparian | |||||
| Notes: Off Oil City Road in parking lot of Liberty Loop Trail, 700 m NE flying West. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 15:10:00 | 1 | Perched | •wetland/pond/marsh/riparian | |||||
| Notes: At Winding Waters Trail parking lot, in a tree next to each other 270 m ENE. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 15:15:00 | 2 | Flying | Adult | •stubble agriculture•developed | ||||
| Notes: On Gurda Ln, to NE together. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 15:20:00 | 1 | Soaring | •forested | |||||
| Notes: On Missionlands Road just south of junction with Gurda Lane, soaring over Puchuck Mountain to the SSE which is forested. We were in an area with dirt agriculture. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 15:30:00 | 1 | Light | •dirt agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Missionlands Road just south of junction with Gurda Lane, far to the SW in a tree, then flew and landed in another tree further South. Needed scope to ID. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 15:50:00 | 1 | Perched | •wetland/pond/marsh/riparian | |||||
| Notes: Pine Island Turnpike, in a tree 100 m NE next to the Wallkill River. | |||||||||
| BE (Bald Eagle) | 15:50:00 | 1 | Flying | Immature | •stubble agriculture | ||||
| Notes: Pine Island Turnpike at the Wallkill River crossing, flying North to our NW. | |||||||||
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 16:05:00 | 1 | Flying Perched | Light | •stubble agriculture•developed | ||||
| Notes: At the beginning of Turtle Bay Road, flying, perched in a tree and flew away. Did not have a dark belly, had a light head. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 16:30:00 | 1 | Perched | •wetland/pond/marsh/riparian | |||||
| Notes: On Lynch Avenue, 1 Km ENE perched in a tree along the Wallkill River. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 16:45:00 | 1 | Perched | Adult | •developed•roadsides | ||||
| Notes: On Pierce's Circle in a tree 50 m North. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 16:45:00 | 1 | Perched | •forested•stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Pierce's Circle 550 m NE in a tree. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 16:45:00 | 1 | Perched | •stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: Onion Avenue 550 m East low 5 m up in a tree. | |||||||||
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 17:30:00 | 1 | Perched | •forested•stubble agriculture | |||||
| Notes: On Celery Avenue (looking for SE), RT perched in a tree 850 m ESE. | |||||||||
Survey totals by species
| Species | Total Count |
|---|---|
| BV (Black Vulture) | 5 |
| RT (Red-tailed Hawk) | 33 |
| TV (Turkey Vulture) | 1 |
| BE (Bald Eagle) | 5 |
| RL (Rough-legged Hawk) | 12 |
| AK (American Kestrel) | 1 |
| Total | 57 |