As of today, 8 January 2012, the Mountain Bluebirds in New York’s Suffolk County and Ontario’s Wellington County are both being seen. Both have stuck it out for awhile now and neither shows any signs of moving on, odd for birds that, from what I understand, tend to stick for a brief time when they are out of range. Anyone care to proffer an explanation?
John Vendermuelen has some shots of Ontario’s bird from yesterday and I have one of New York’s bird from today.
Now if only a Mountain Plover would show up…
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Very cool sighting.
It’s an Eastern Bluebird that flew over a chimney. Big deal.
🙂
Four beautiful bluebirds were feeding on the berries in my woods this morning. Delaware
It seems to me that the first vagrant Mountain Bluebird I saw in Pennsylvania back in the 1980s not only stuck around for quite a while but apparently came back again the next year.