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Luis Salazar returns to Braves camp
Mar 23, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
Luis Salazar is out of the hospital and on the mend following his awful injury in the Braves dugout a couple of weeks ago. Mark Bowman of MLB.com has both the story and video of Salazar talking about his recovery.
"I'd like to thank God that I'm talking to you guys and that I'm alive," Salazar said. "God gave me a second chance in this world, and I'm going to take advantage of it. I really appreciate it."
As you can see in the pic, he looks pretty good all things considered, with the area around his left eye swollen but not particularly awful looking. Kind of like a boxer the morning after a fight, actually. He's able to drive and he'll soon be rejoining the Braves minor leaguers as he takes the help of high-A Lynchburg.
Salazar has no recollection of what went down after the incident. The last thing he remembers was the ball hitting him and then nothing. Our brains get us into a lot of trouble, but they're pretty good at protecting us too.
- cur68 - Mar 23, 2011 at 2:06 PM
Man am I glad to see this. Luis should definitely go with the eye patch. He'd look so bada$$…
- Jonny 5 - Mar 23, 2011 at 3:08 PM
He's back quicker that it took Castillo to get to Phillies camp. Damn.
- Chipmaker - Mar 23, 2011 at 4:11 PM
If he starts wearing an eyepatch, the Pirates would HAVE TO hire him.
- JB (the original) - Mar 23, 2011 at 4:28 PM
It's great to see him back. And the following is tongue cheek, and in no way is meant to belittle the injury he suffered.
Instead of the patch he could be like assorted movie villains and have some "bizzaro" glass eyes made up. One that looks like a baseball (with the stitching), maybe one with a little Braves tomahawk, etc.
- cur68 - Mar 23, 2011 at 4:57 PM
I like it; maybe a red one to give opposing batters the evil eye? You know, with a vertical pupil like a cat?
- rapmusicmademedoit - Mar 23, 2011 at 8:02 PM
He looks like an olde g now………..
- fdnymedic03 - Mar 24, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Good to see you back my Spanish brother!
- baseballstars - Mar 24, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Hate that he lost his vision, but I'm also glad that he's alive. It's a reminder that no matter where you are on the field during batting practice, your primary focus of attention should be on the batting cage.
I wish him the best.
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Whether government should impose mandatory ratios of nurses to hospital patients has been bitterly controversial in many states, including Washington.
Nurses have argued that staffing minimums are necessary for safe patient care, but hospitals have countered that legislation is too blunt an instrument and could force them to close emergency rooms and other units.
Monday, hospitals and nurses unions in Washington signed what they called a first-in-the-nation, landmark agreement on how to address these differences and move ahead.
Breaking a five-year stalemate, the two sides pledged to support legislation that would require every hospital to create a unit-by-unit, shift-by-shift nurse-staffing plan. The plan would be set by a nurse-staffing committee; at least half the members must be registered nurses who regularly care for patients.
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Robinson quits to leave calamitous Scotland in disarray for Six Nations
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Monday 26 November 2012
Andy Robinson had warned there would be consequences following his Scotland side's numbing 21-15 defeat to Tonga and within hours of making the prediction, he proved himself right by quitting as national coach. Not for the first time in recent years, the Scots are approaching a Six Nations tournament with no clear idea of who will pick and prepare a team whose place in the world rankings is likely to slip to a lowly 12th as a result of Saturday's calamity in Aberdeen.
Robinson's decision was announced yesterday, less than 24 hours after he had watched his players fall flat on their faces against a fast-improving but less than daunting group of South Seas tourists. As is the way of sporting severance agreements these days, his immediate reaction to the performance – "It was totally unacceptable and I'm very angry, it reflects on me as a coach," he said after the final whistle – was significantly more forthright than his resignation statement.
In yesterday's statement he thanked those who had supported him since his appointment three years ago and argued that he had "left the side in a better position" than he found it.
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Before last season's Six Nations, he indicated that he would be ready to walk away from Scotland if the tournament turned out badly. While he thought better of making that grand gesture following a winless campaign that could hardly have gone worse, he knew he could not countenance another barren run.
Scotland's summer tour of Australia and the Pacific Islands threw a more positive light on things – there were wins over the Wallabies, Fiji and Samoa – but all-too-predictable failures against New Zealand and South Africa earlier this month had made Tonga a must-win fixture. The result left Robinson contemplating an unenviable record of 10 defeats in 13 Tests, stretching back to last year's World Cup, when the team failed to survive the pool stage for the first time in the history of the competition.
Mark Dodson, the chief executive of the Scottish Rugby Union, indicated Robinson would have been sacked had he not made his excuses and left of his own volition. "Andy has overseen some fine results as head coach since he was appointed in June 2009 but the recent defeats have been very disappointing," Dodson said, adding that a recruitment process was now under way.
Nick Mallett, the South African who rejected the chance to succeed Martin Johnson as England boss a year ago, will automatically be placed at the top of the candidates list, but in the meantime the current assistant coach, Scott Johnson, an Australian, will run the show.
As for Robinson, a return to Premiership rugby is the likely outcome of yesterday's developments. At the very least, he is acknowledged far and wide as an outstanding forwards specialist: he was at the heart of the England back-room team who helped deliver a world title in 2003 and prepared the British and Irish Lions pack on both the 2001 tour of Australia and the 2005 trek around New Zealand. Had things gone better for Scotland in the last Six Nations, he would have run Warren Gatland very close for the top job ahead of next summer's return to Wallaby country.
He may, however, have to play a lengthy waiting game. Most Premiership teams including his beloved Bath – the club for whom he played as an international-class flanker and guided to a ground-breaking Heineken Cup title in 1998 – have settled coaching set-ups. The one obvious exception, Sale, is hardly an attractive proposition, given the rapid turnover of personnel in recent times.
Robinson is bound to be linked with a return to Bath: he still lives in the city and knows both the owner, Bruce Craig, and the chief executive, Nick Blofeld, from his student days. But as Craig pieced together a new, high-profile coaching staff under the South African strategist Gary Gold only last summer, there is no obvious vacancy.
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Three years ago, the city demolished the housing at the old public development along Mills Avenue. Officials have long planned to replace that housing.
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The top official at Alta Vista Regional Hospital is expected to appear before the County Commission next week.
County Manager Les Montoya said that Richard Grogan, the privately run hospital's CEO, has agreed to attend the county meeting, which is set for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the meeting room at the West Las Vegas administration building.
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The West Las Vegas district has requested to delay the project's start to May, rather than January, as originally planned.
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SAN MATEO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/10/13 -- DataStax, the company that powers the apps that transform business, today announced DataStax Community Edition 1.2, the latest version of Apache Cassandra, the massively scalable open-source NoSQL database. The new release comes with a free edition of DataStax OpsCenter, the #1 visual management and monitoring solution in use today for Cassandra, which enables developers to manage and monitor their Cassandra clusters in point-and-click fashion from any location and from nearly any device.
DataStax Community Edition 1.2 contains all of Apache Cassandra 1.2's features including:
- Virtual nodes, which improve the granularity of capacity increases, dramatically improve repair and rebuild times in larger clusters, and automatically keep the data in clusters balanced across all nodes
- CQL3 improvements, notably the addition of collection types, query-able system information, and a CQL-native protocol
- Request tracing allows developers and administrators to trace CQL requests on an individual or collective basis and easily understand what statements in a cluster are causing performance problems
- Atomic batches ensure multiple statements sent to a cluster in batch are always applied in an all-or-nothing basis
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DataStax Community Edition 1.2 also features many performance improvements to memory usage, column indexes, compaction, streaming, startup time and more.
"Cassandra 1.2 represents one of the most significant releases of the database yet," said Jonathan Ellis, chief technology officer, DataStax, and project chair of Apache Cassandra. "This new release makes it much easier for developers to insert and manipulate data, while CQL3 in 1.2 allows them to model data more naturally. We also worked to improve Cassandra deployments on denser hardware, with features like virtual nodes (vnodes), disk failure policies and compaction performance."
In addition to vnodes, the new release features atomic batches, inter-node communication and request tracing. These enhancements simplify the process of setting up new clusters and enable a higher level of cluster performance. CQL3, the third version of the Cassandra Query Language, is also being released with Cassandra 1.2. Developers can enjoy simplified application modeling, more powerful mapping and a more natural representation of data that diminishes design limitations, augmenting Cassandra's renowned scalability and reliability.
"C* 1.2 is huge, but it's hard to really put a finger on an overall theme because the improvements are so wide ranging," said Rick Branson, software engineer, Instagram. "The solidification of CQL3 and addition of atomic batches make huge leaps forward in terms of developer productivity. On the operations side, the addition of vnodes and off-heap internals (compression metadata & bloom filters) make managing a cluster much simpler and more hands-off."
"There is something in Apache Cassandra 1.2 for everybody," said Aaron Morton, independent Apache Cassandra committer. "Virtual Nodes and CQL 3 will make it easier for new users to set up a cluster and get productive. Existing users will see their clusters doing more thanks to the performance improvements, while everyone will benefit from the insights that request tracing brings."
"Virtual nodes are the most exciting feature for us," said Christos Kalantzis, engineering manager of cloud persistence engineering, Netflix. "The fact that we can autoscale our Cassandra clusters up and down on EC2 has already made a huge impact on our productivity."
Starting January 11, 2013, users can download DataStax Community Edition 1.2 by visiting http://planetcassandra.org/Download/DataStaxCommunityEdition.
About DataStax
DataStax powers the apps that transform business for more than 200 customers, including startups and 20 of the Fortune 100. DataStax delivers a massively scalable, flexible and continuously available big data platform built on Apache Cassandra. DataStax integrates enterprise-ready Cassandra, Apache Hadoop for analytics and Apache Solr for search across multi-datacenters and in the cloud.
Companies such as Adobe, Healthcare Anytime, eBay and Netflix rely on DataStax to transform their businesses. Based in San Mateo, Calif., DataStax is backed by industry-leading investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Crosslink Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. For more information, visit DataStax or follow us @DataStax.
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.
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At the moment there's a booming market in security guards for merchant ships plying the waters off Somalia and adjacent areas (Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, western Indian Ocean, Straits of Hormuz). An on-board security detachment will cost them about $40,000 for the short trip through pirate infested waters.
According to industry insiders 'Security Page', it's not just the armed former soldiers and marines now riding on the most choice targets that scare off the pirates but also all the dozens of boats (the size of seagoing fishing boats) that ferry the armed guards between African and Arabian ports to the ships that are to be guarded. The pirates have learned to keep clear of these boats as well, as they are full of heavily armed men willing to undertake some target practice before reaching their merchant ship and going on duty.
The rapid growth in the use of armed guards (who were on ten percent of large ships a year ago and some 70 percent now) and more aggressive operations by the international anti-pirate patrol have caused ship captures by pirates to decline by two-thirds this year. The reduction in ransom money has led to a collapse of the economic boom in and around the northern Somalia port towns where the pirates were based.
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China rejected Philippine complaints on Wednesday about Chinese survey vessels operating in a gas-rich area of Manila's exclusive economic zone, and has lodged
Russian oil major Lukoil has emerged as one of the first companies to buy Canadian crude re-exported from a U.S. port, shipping one cargo last month to its refinery in Augusta,
Western sanctions against Russia may slow down exploration for oil and gas on both the Norwegian and Russian side of the Arctic Barents Sea, lobby group Norwegian Oil & Gas told Reuters on Wednesday.
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When the word sparrows is mentioned some folks immediately think those "Little Brown Jobs" and want to run and hide, but others look at this interesting group as a challenge. The issue is that most sparrows are very similar in appearance and as some believe impossible to separate especially if they appear in great numbers. Yes they are similar, but with a little time and effort, you too can master sparrow ID.
Sparrows are short-distance migrants, many of which nest in the immense Boreal Forest that stretches coast-to-coast across Canada and Alaska where with few exceptions the breeding birds there are quite successful. They move south through New Jersey often in great numbers from mid-October through early November. One must look for a day after a front with northwest winds for success. The primary birds in question are White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Swamp Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, and Field Sparrow which all range from uncommon or abundant migrants. Birders are always scouring the flocks for rarities including: Clay-colored Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow and Vesper Sparrow. At month's end Fox and American Tree Sparrows will begin to appear in small numbers and are always a treat to see.
Sandy Hook and Higbee Beach in Cape May are two of the best places to look for sparrows during fall migration. Other excellent locations include: Island Beach State Park, Glenhurst Meadows in Warren, Overpeck Creek in Ridgefield Park, Cold Brook Preserve in Tewksbury and the Palmyra Cove Park in Palmyra. Salt Sparrows, our sparrows that hang out in the saltmarsh are also passing through at this season. They include the abundant nesting Seaside Sparrow, the uncommon nesting Saltmarsh Sparrow and the scarce migrant Nelson's Sparrow which only appears here from the end of September to early November. The Garden State's absolutely best location for salt sparrows is the south end of Great Bay Boulevard in Tuckerton in the salt grass (Spartina). Nelson's and Saltmarsh were formally conspecific and known as Sharp-tailed Sparrow until split by the AOU in 1995. They are quite similar and require work to find and ID. Plum Island on Sandy Hook and Forsythe (the birders call it Brig) are also two other excellent locations to find these sparrows.
Sparrow are to be enjoyed as we have great numbers of them providing many opportunities for study, whereby with our warblers, great migration days are becoming fewer and fewer as numbers decline. Go out and give sparrows a chance.
Dark-eyed Junco: Image taken by Clara Coen:
Savannah Sparrow: Image taken by Howard Eskin
White-throated Sparrow: Image taken by Bill Dix
Chipping Sparrow: Image taken by Sam Galick
White-crowned Sparrow: Image taken by Clara Coen
American Tree Sparrow: Image taken by Howard Eskin
Fox Sparrow: Image by Clara Coen
Lark Sparrow: Image taken by Sam Galick
Vesper Sparrow: Image taken by Joe Pescatore
Saltmarsh Sparrow: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Nelson's Sparrow: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
October is a great month to be out birding as our sparrows and other short-distance migrants begin to arrive. Short-distance migrants are those birds that migrate, but do not leave North America. Examples include: American Robin, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Northern Flicker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, Tree Swallow, Brown Creeper, Ruby and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Hermit Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned and Pine Warblers, Eastern Towhee, most sparrows, Red-winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle, Eastern Meadowlark, Purple Finch and American Goldfinch. Whereby our Neotropic migrants have been declining over the last half century with many down 50% or more, the short-distance migrants with a few exceptions are flourishing with many the product of North America's premier breeding ground, the Boreal Forest. The Boreal Forest extends completely across Canada and Alaska touching the northern edge of the US along the way. October and early November are prime time to view this group as they move south into our area often in great numbers. Having a good day in the field looking for sparrows in October is much more likely now than having a good day in the field in September for looking for warblers.
Coastal locations are often the best places to look for our short-distance migrants with two of them now off limits. The government shutdown has closed Sandy Hook and Forsythe (the birders call it Brig) National Wildlife Refuge both excellent birding locations in October, so what are our alternatives. Of course if you enjoy raptors all our NJ hawkwatches will be open for business, while another option would be the Avalon Seawatch in Cape May county where thousands of migrating seabirds can be encountered in a single day. Cape May with its hawkwatch and hotspots like Higbee Beach and the Meadows could also be excellent, but Cape May is still a long drive from north Jersey. If you prefer to stay closer to home there are excellent birding opportunities to pursue. For sparrows some of the best places are Glenhurst Meadows in Warren, Overpeck Creek Park in Ridgefield Park, Coldbrook Preserve in Tewksbury, Palmyra Cove Park in Palmyra, and Thompson and Dorbrook Parks in Monmouth County, Great Bay Boulevard, Tuckerton and the Alpha Grasslands. All these places could provide for a productive day in the field. For general birding recommended locations include: the New Jersey Meadowlands in Lyndhurst, Assunpink WMA in Allentown, Island Beach State Park, and the Allendale Celery Farm. This is not a time to sit home and feel sorry for yourself. Go out and enjoy.
Here are some of the short-distance migrant you may to encounter in October:
Cedar Waxwing: Image taken by Deb BiFulco
Palm Warbler: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Orange-crowned Warbler: Image taken by Harvey Tomlinson
Yellow-rumped Warbler: Image taken by Howard Eskin
Ruby-crowned Kinglet: Image taken by Bob Devlin
Golden-crowned Kinglet: Image taken by Clara Coen
Rusty Blackbirds: Image taken by Sam Galick
Lapland Longspur: Image taken by Brett Klaproth
Vesper Sparrow: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Savannah Sparrow: Image taken by Tom Smith
Clay-colored Sparrow: Image taken by Howard Eskin
Nelson's Sparrows: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
October is the best month of the year for raptor diversity as most of our fall migrants pass through the Garden State. Two of our accipiters will be plentiful this month, Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks. Population numbers of the two species have been headed in opposite directions in the last thirty years. Cooper's Hawks were quite scarce in the 1970's with one of every ten accipiters a Sharp-shinned Hawk at the Cape May Point Hawkwatch. The latter's numbers have tailed off since then, while Cooper's Hawks have flourished. Now the numbers are about one to four, Coop to Sharpy. Sharp-shinned Hawk has always been the bread-and-butter bird of the Cape May Point Hawkwatch. The largest and rarest accipiter Northern Goshawk may appear around month's end. Goshawks are an eruptive species with a few or none appearing some years and double-digits in others.
Our tenth month is also prime-time for some of our buteos. Red-tailed Hawk, the most common in North America including NJ and Red-shouldered Hawk, a NJ endangered nester appear in sizeable numbers here in migration. The elusive Rough-legged Hawk, the rarest raptor seen in eastern US hawkwatches usually appears at month's end if at all. This our largest hawk prefers marshlands and large open meadows to ridges. You will be hard pressed to find our abundant September buteo Broad-winged Hawk after mid-month as most are well on their way to somewhere between Mexico and Brazil.
Golden Eagles one of the great prize sightings at a hawkwatch can be seen trickling through all month. Bald Eagle numbers as well as Northern Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin and American Kestrel will remain strong through month's end, while Osprey numbers will tail off in later October with a few still lingering into November.
Days with northwest winds are the best days to head to your favorite hawkwatch, while any wind out of an easterly direction spells a death knell to any migration. Another interesting fact for most raptors is that a vast majority of birds migrating along the coast in fall are juveniles, while a majority of the birds migrating the ridges are adults.
Go out and enjoy.
Cooper's Hawk: Image taken by Tiffany Kirsten
Sharp-shinned Hawk: Image taken by Jim Gilbert
Northern Goshawk Juvenile: Image taken by Tom Reed
Red-shouldered Hawk Juvenile: Image taken by Steve Byland
Red-tailed Hawks, Juvenile and Adult: Image taken by Steve Byland
Rough-legged Hawk, Light Morph: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Merlin: Image taken by Sam Galick
Golden Eagle, Juvenile: Image taken by Mike Tracy
When the calendar reads late September/early October birders should think falcons. The American Kestrel, the smallest of our falcons has dramatically declined in the last forty years primarily due to loss of habitat. It was one of the bread-and-butter birds of the Cape May Point Hawkwatch years ago, but numbers are quite reduced in 2013, but there will be still some birds to see especially in the next week or so. Falcons are built for speed and primarily a bird looking to go from point A to point B in the fastest time possibly, but someone forgot to tell this to the Kestrel. American Kestrels are very happy to lope along, seeming just to enjoy life without any concern for land speed records. Merlins are the true falcons who flaunt their speed by flying out of their way to dive-bomb and unsuspecting bird just of the fun of it. Calling Merlins pugnacious is almost an understatement. They are a bird with an agenda that is downright nasty at times. Loping is not in their vocabulary. This brings us to the Peregrine Falcon, the creature that does hold the land speed record for any creature on this planet. They are capable of speeds attaining 175 mph. in a power-dive. The next ten days is their time. All three falcons are seen at all our hawkwatches, but Merlins and Peregrines do have a predilection for migrating along the coast rendering Cape May Point the best place for viewing large numbers.
Peregrine Falcons along with the Bald Eagle and the Osprey were devastated by the use of DDT and other Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides from the 1940's to 1972 when they were outlawed. The eastern wild "aunatum" Peregrine race was rendered to extinction, while numbers of Bald Eagles and Ospreys were reduced dramatically. At the top of the food chain, the Peregrine received a large dose of chemical with almost every meal and were doomed, but through breeding of captive "aunatum" birds by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the race now lives again in the wild. If you are lucky you could experience a 200 Peregrine day at the Cape May Point Hawkwatch during the first week of October. All the falcons migration will continue into November, but prime time is now.
During my forty plus year birding career I don't think I ever saw a Merlin perched on a wire. They preferred the tops of poles, leaving the wires to American Kestrels, but in the last couple of years they have changed their habits. No longer can I assume when I see a small falcon on a wire, it is a Kestrel.
American Kestrel Male: Image taken by Tom Boyle
American Kestrel Female: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
American Kestrel: Image taken by Tiffany Kersten
Merlin: Image taken by Harvey Tomlinson
Merlin: Image taken by Bill Dix
Merlin on a Wire: Image taken by Mike Mandracchia
Peregrine Falcon "aunatum" Race: Image taken by Mark Gorman
Peregrine Falcon: Image taken by Howard Eskin
Peregrine Falcon: Image taken by Tom Reed
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If the last week has been any indication, there will be lots of birding opportunities out there to enjoy this week and beyond. The Chimney Rock Hawk-watch in Martinsville on September 16 tallied 8,733 Broad-winged Hawks and there are more of those to come. Between September 15 and 17, Chimney Rock tallied over 14,000 Broad-winged Hawks. Now our falcons the Peregrine, Merlin and American Kestrel will begin to pass through in numbers along with Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, our two most common migrant Accipiters in New Jersey. Visit one of our fine New Jersey fall hawk-watches during the next couple of months and you could have a great experience. Look for days following a northwest cold front.
Sandy Hook had a great warbler day on September 14 with 23 species of warblers present including: Connecticut, Cape May, Tennessee and Bay-breasted as well as two American Golden-Plover. The following day the Hook produced 22 warbler species as well as Lark and Clay-colored Sparrows, Philadelphia Vireo and Gray-cheeked Thrush while September 17 tallied 19 warbler species along with Lark and Clay-colored Sparrow, Sora and Virginia Rail and a Juv. Red-headed Woodpecker. Neo-tropic migrants should still be coming through the Garden State in numbers into early October.
There are still lots of shorebirds still to be seen at Forsythe (the birders call it Brig) if the All Things Birds field trip on September 14 is any indication as the trip tallied twenty shorebirds species including: Buff-breasted, Baird's, White-rumped and Western Sandpipers, American Golden-Plover, American Avocet, and Marbled Godwits. There was also a Wilson's Phalarope photographed there that day. The refuge also produced Little Blue and Tricolored Herons, Sora, and Caspian and Royal Terns. Shorebirds will continue to pass through the refuge well into November along with our currently returning ducks, geese and raptors. the refuge is just a great place to be anytime during the year except in winters with a hard freeze.
The temptation is to stay home an watch all those football games this weekend, but your DVR's and Tivo will take care of that for you. Get out birding. Pete Dunne will be at NJ Audubon's Scherman-Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday doing a hawk-watch on the center's observation deck. Come join him and say hello. Yours truly Pete B. will be there the same day with an program, Hawks in Autumn, an ID Workshop at 10:30 a.m. and back again on Sunday for a field trip to the Great Swamp NWR at 8:45 a.m. For more details call 908-766-5787.
Merlin: image taken by Bill Dix
Sharp-shinned Hawk: Image taken by Howard Eskin
Connecticut Warbler: Image taken by Mike Tracy
Cape May Warbler: Image taken by Clara Coen
Bay-breasted Warbler: Image taken by Harvey Tomlinson
Philadelphia Vireo: Image taken by Clara Coen
Baird's Sandpiper: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Labor Day weekend is in our rear-view mirror, summer is about over and for many that means raptors and lots of them. Yes there are many shorebirds and Neotropic migrants to be seen, but for many birders fall raptor migration trumps all. There are many folks out there whose only birding is hawk-watching and for them it is a great passion. Late August signals the beginning for raptors to start thinking about their impending journey south and by mid-September migration is proceeding with many Ospreys and Bald Eagles on the move with the hawk aficionados anxiously anticipating the day of the massive Broad-winged Hawk flight. Not every year will there be a flight day of ten-thousand or more Broad-wings, but most years there is that special day taking place right about now at one or more NJ hawk-watchers.
By month's end falcon's will be at the top of the raptor scorecard as American Kestrels, Merlins and Peregrine Falcons are moving big time. Just as the falcon numbers are thinning out in mid-October Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawk are at their peak along with Red-tails and Red-shouldered Hawks. If you interested in the rarer raptors such as Golden Eagles, Northern Goshawks and Rough-legged Hawks November is your month.
The Garden State is home to many great hawk-watches, rendering finding a nearby location rather easy. New Jersey Audubon sponsors the Montclair and the Cape May hawk-watches, the latter, one of the most successful in North American averaging about 40, 000 hawks per season. Most hawk-watches run from September 1st to November 30 with an official counter present daily who will often point out birds for the novices. North Jersey also features the Scott's Mountain Hawk-watch over looking Merrill Creek Reservoir in Warren County, Chimney Rock in Martinsville, Wildcat Ridge in Hibernia and Raccoon Ridge also in Warren County overlooking Yard's Creek Reservoir and the Delaware River. All the watches are easily accessible except the last two which require a hike and climb.
NJ Audubon's Scherman-Hoffman Sanctuary in Bernardsville also has a deck where many hawks pass over in fall almost daily and worth a visit if you have a few minutes or an hour or two to spare. Sunrise Mountain in Stokes State Forest in Sussex County can also offer a great vantage point for raptor observation and was at one time an official hawk-watch. Go out and enjoy yourself.
Bald Eagle: Image taken by Bill Dix
Broad-winged Hawk: Image taken by Steve Byland
Broad-winged Hawk Kettle: Image taken by Kevin Karlson
American Kestrel: Image taken by Harvey Tomlinson
Merlin: Image taken by Bill Dalton
Peregrine Falcon: Image taken by Tiffany Kersten
Sharp-shinned Hawk: Image taken by Tom Reed
Cooper's Hawk: Image taken by Sam Galick
Red-tailed Hawk: Image taken by Bill Dalton
Red-shouldered Hawk: Image taken by Tiffany Kersten
There is a select group of uncommon to rare shorebirds that rarely or never appear in New Jersey in spring migration, but do appear usually in small numbers in summer and early fall. They are the group the birders affectionately call "grasspipers" for their predilection to sod farms and grassy areas. They include: Baird's and Buff-breasted Sandpipers which have never appeared here in spring and American Golden-Plover which is quite rare in spring, but occasionally appears in double digit numbers here in summer. This cast can be joined by Killdeer which love the sod and are found often in flocks and occasionally Pectoral and Least Sandpipers as well as Black-bellied Plover. Upland Sandpiper, an endangered species also prefers sod, but are very rare and found in only in early summer. With the exception of the Killdeer, these are all birds heading south for a tropical winter vacation.
Our lingering recession and subsequent decline in the housing market has not been a boon to "grasspipers' and the birders seeking them. The market for sod is now way down and many fields once planted with sod are currently in soybeans or corn, but there is still some sod out there if you look for it. Some of the best sod farms are present near Assunpink WMA in the Allentown area and there is also the well known Johnson Sod farm in Pole Tavern on the Salem/Cumberland border. Others sod farms are present in Hunterdon, Somerset, Mercer and Warren counties.
Unfortunately for birders, these sod farms are all private property and usually offer no parking and little space to pull off the road safely. Farmers have complained in the past about birders trespassing on their property by driving up private roads and walking on fields. When searching for these marvelous shorebirds please follow proper birding etiquette.
Grassy patches at Forsythe (the birders call it Brig) National Wildlife Refuge especially along the north dike can be productive for "grasspipers" with the exception of Upland Sandpiper which seldom ever appears there. This is still an excellent time for shorebird diversity at the refuge. The green-heads will be gone in a week or so eliminating one of the biggest excuses for not visiting this wonderful refuge in summer. Enjoy.
Baird's Sandpiper: Image taken by Mike Fahay
Buff-breasted Sandpiper: Image taken by Art Morris, Birds as Art
Buff-breasted Sandpiper: Image taken by Sam Galick
American Golden-Plover: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Killdeer: Image taken by Harvey Tomlinson
Pectoral Sandpiper: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Upland Sandpiper: Image taken by Kevin Karlson
Our concentration has been focused on shorebirds for the last month or so, but there are other choices on the birding menu. Neotropic migrants i.e. warblers, flycatchers, thrushes, vireos, swallows etc. are species that migrate south in summer and early fall to their winter homes in Central and South America and the Caribbean. New Jersey lies firmly on the Atlantic Flyway and is the recipient of many of these migrant avian treasures. These are birds that are primarily carnivorous, feasting on insects and other invertebrates which are not available once the cold weather arrives requiring them to seek warmer climes in winter. Our Neotropic migrants have been on the move since mid-July, but are now beginning to peak as we approach the end of August and early September.
Eastern Kingbirds can be seen in numbers exceeding four digits around Labor Day Weekend. Our challenging Empidonax Flycatchers i.e. Least, Alder, Willow, Acadian and Yellow-bellied Flycatchers also peaking in numbers at this time. All can be identified by sight with some effort except Willow-Alder which are basically identical. If you are lucky enough to get one to call you can ID it. Willow Flycatcher says "whit" and Alder "Pep". Fall Warblers can be tricky, so make sure you do some studying before you head into the field and bring a good field guide with you. Almost all of our annual occurring warblers occur here during the next month, so be prepared. Louisiana Waterthrush is an exception as they are usually completely gone by early August.
Sandy Hook can be a great place to find fall warblers and Empidonax Flycatchers in particular the migrant only Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. There is parking fee in place till the end of Labor Day weekend, but you can access the "Hook" if you agree not to park in beach lots and tell them you are birding when you arrive at the gate. Garret Mountain noted for its fabulous spring migration numbers can be good in fall too. Island Beach State Park and the woods around the Brigantine parking lot can also be rewarding. Cape May Point is a legendary fall migration hotspot, but is quite a ride from north Jersey.
If you are hooked on shorebirds, this is still an excellent time to go to Brig especially as the Green-headed Flies start to dissipate following Labor Day. Shorebird species diversity is at its peak right now.
Eastern Kingbird: Image taken by Howard Eskin
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: Image taken by Stephanie Seymour
Alder Flycatcher: Image taken by Stephanie Seymour
Willow Flycatcher: Image taken by Joe Pescatore
Acadian Flycatcher: Image taken by Tom Halliwell
Least Flycatcher: Image taken by Clara Coen
Blackpoll Warbler: Image taken by Harvey Tomlinson
Cape May Warbler: Image taken by Brett Klaproth
Late August through early September is the best time on the calendar to maximize the number of shorebirds species you can find here in New Jersey. Our state has three species of shorebirds that can only be seen in summer as they are not spring migrants along the east coast. The three shorebirds are Baird's, Buff-breasted and Western Sandpipers. The latter is a common migrant in summer, but the other two are rare. At this season you have a greater opportunity to see American Golden-Plover, phalaropes, godwits along with Stilt and Pectoral Sandpipers which can be uncommon or rare in spring. Dunlin, Ruddy Turnstone, Wilson's Snipe, Red Knot, Long-billed Dowitcher and White-rumped Sandpipers also become more common as the season progresses. American Avocet and Black-necked Stilt are also more regular in summer here in the Garden State. There is often still an "Eastern" Willet around to be counted and this summer a few "Western" Willets appeared early. There are many possibilities out there now for you to achieve that 25 species of shorebird day.
Forsythe (the birders call it Brig or Brigantine) National Wildlife Refuge is still the best place to reach this number at one location. This past Saturday on an All Things Birds field trip there were 22 species of shorebirds were tallied there. Many years ago the New Jersey Meadowlands occasionally attained those amazing numbers in summer, but they maintained favorable to shorebirds water levels in the impoundments there at that time. You can still have very good days there now especially around the DeKorte Environment Center in Lyndhurst. Shorebirds of the beaches such as Piping Plover and Sanderling are not likely to be found at Brig which is primarily mudflats and grassy areas. Piping Plover is also for the most part gone after Labor Day weekend. The Heislerville impoundments in Cumberland County could also provide an excellent shorebird species total.
For you shorebird fanatics like me this is your time. For the newbies out there, binoculars are necessary and a spotting scope beneficial and don't forget the sunscreen and insect repellant. All Things Birds also has field trips scheduled at Brig this Saturday, August 24 as well as Saturdays, September 7 and 14. Come join us and let us find you the birds.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Baird's Sandpiper: Image taken by Clara Coen
Hudsonian Godwit: Image taken by Howard Eskin
Wilson's Phalarope: Image taken by Mike Fahay
Red-necked Phalarope: Image taken by Tom Smith
Black-necked Stilt: Image taken by Kevin Karlson
Western Sandpiper: Image taken by Harvey Tomlinson
Stilt Sandpiper: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
Chimney Swifts are not like any other bird in eastern North America. They do not have the ability to perch or to land on a flat surface. The only resting position they can achieve is hanging preferably on the inside or a chimney or a hollowed out old tree trunk. This remarkable bird ranges from the Great Plains across the United States and southern Canada to the Atlantic Coast. The bird has been described as a "cigar butt with wings" as it is a bit over five inches in length, but has a 14 inch wing span. They are in decline in American and have been declared a threatened species in Canada as too many folks are capping their chimneys, add to that the loss of industrial chimneys and as well as hollow trees with wide-spread logging practices. The vanguard of Chimney Swifts can appear in spring in late March and are usually gone by October as they journey to South America for the winter. They are a great benefit to mankind as they consume copious quantities of flying insects. They are often mistaken for Little Brown Bats an animal that they can often be seen flying along side at dawn and dusk. They appear to fly with one wing up and the other down, but this is just an optical illusion.
We have a great opportunity to view them up close and personal in town of Raritan in Somerset County. There is a fifty foot industrial chimney where they nest and roost that is off Orlando Drive which runs along the Raritan River less than a mile from where Orlando meets Route 202. Last year there was an estimate of over five thousand birds occupying this chimney. A visit to this spot at dusk can provide a wonderful treat of watching the birds swirl into this chimney as they end their day. There is a good place to park and watch on a short road called Mill Street by the foot bridge across the Raritan River. Be sure to bring a pair of binoculars with you. They should continue there for a few more weeks, but don't wait too long as they are probably already contemplating their journey south.
Chimney Swift: Image taken by Sam Galick
Chimney Swift: Image taken by Tom Reed
The Industrial Chimney in Raritan: Image taken by Sandra Escala
Little Brown Bat: Image from NJ Audubon Collection
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