On a relatively cool mid-afternoon walk to Turtle Cove and the edge alongside the Orchard Beach parking lot, I was surprised to find more than a dozen Killdeer. There were also more than a dozen Cedar Waxwings landing and feeding on something very low on the glasswort in Turtle Cove. I assume they were hawking insects, as there are no berries.
Killdeer 12 Cedar Waxwings 12+ Snowy Egret 11 Great Egrets 2 Black-crowned Night Heron 3 Song Sparrow Chipping Sparrow 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker Osprey (with fish in talons) Marsh Wren (several popping up all along the marsh) Red-winged Blackbirds 30+ (flocks of females flying all around the marsh) Barn Swallow Northern Flicker 2 Mourning Dove European Starling 60+ American Robin 25+ Canada Goose 10 Herring Gull 8 Greater Black-backed Gull 2 Pelham Bay Park, Bronx 12:30 PM, approximately 75 degrees and breezy Jack Rothman www.cityislandbirds.com -- 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/ --
