11/29...The
bird was last reported seen on 11/25, but Sean
Sime reported hearing it on 11/28...From
NYSBIRDS-L: (summary) A Hammond's Flycatcher was found at the
Marshlands Conservancy in Rye on 11/19 (conclusively identified
based on vocalization on 11/21). There is only one accepted
record of this species in New York State (Jones
Beach, Nassau County, October 2001).
11/26/06...Ben
Cacace has graciously posted a Google Earth image showing the
swimming pool area where the bird has been seen most frequently
at http://www.flickr.com/photos/81037799@N00/304051700/.
On this image, the blue line marks the entry path to the parking
lot. You can also read recent
postings on NYSBirds where people have continued to post
information regarding sightings of this particular bird.
For directions to the Marshlands Conservancy
and a trail map, see the Hudson
River Audubon Society website. The following information,
compiled from posts by John Askildsen and David Klauber on NYSBIRDS-L,
will help you once you are at the Conservancy:
Continue further along in the same direction
as the entrance road, with the visitor's center to your left,
past the barrier. Go through the stone wall with wooden gate
and turn right into the woods, staying right when passing some
large white birch logs. Proceed north 75 feet to a stone wall
enclosed and abandoned in-ground swimming pool compound. The
bird frequents this area, being inside and outside the swimming
pool 'compound.' It is silent and may be elusive at times,
remaining mostly 2-20 feet in the undergrowth....The flycatcher
was seen from about 2:50 to about 3:10 PM, occasionally
disappearing in the evergreens. It was not seen from about
1:30 until 2:50, so it is elusive. When it does show, it's
quite active. It seemed to prefer an area inside the pool compound
in the far right corner (with the visitor center / main path
behind you and the mansion ahead to the left), where there
is a tall green vine tangle climbing up a tree in front of
the evergreens, flanked by a deciduous tree with yellow leaves
on the left. It returned to the vine tangle about 20 feet or
more high several times, also to the evergreens.
