Birded nature study woods and twin lakes below the parkway from 1:30-3:30 this afternoon.
Highlights seen: Ruby crowned kinglets 12+ Yellow crowned kinglet 1 Palm warblers 12+ Pine warbler 1 Yellow-rumped warbler-6 Brown creeper 1 Carolina wren 1 Hermit thrush 4 Belted Kingfisher 1--got to see her catch and eat a fish Osprey - both in and out of nest. Nest on top of radio tower Eastern phoebe 5 Also seen (in no particular order): Red tail hawk 1 Cardinals-many Robins many Mourning dove 5 Rock dove 6 Tufted Titmouse 6+ Chickadee 4 White breasted nuthatch 2 Yellow shafted flicker 5 Red bellied woodpecker 6+ Downy woodpecker 3 Hairy woodpecker 2 Double crested cormorant 1 Hooded merganser 2--a pair Great egret 1 Great blue heron 1 Mallards 20+ Canada goose 2 Mute swan 1 Red winged black bird 10 American crow 2 Blue Jay 2 Song sparrow 2 White throated sparrow 4 Also In my neighborhood near college of new rochelle there is a group of 20+ fish crows seen daily for last month or more. Beautiful spring day!! Paula Landdeck Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
