The standing native grasses left unmown this fall on the Croton Point main landfill are continually to attract and feed a nice show of sparrows.
The best activity was again on the south side of landfill along the gravel paths in the morning: good numbers of savannah (40+) and song sparrows (20+) along with two Lincoln's sparrows. The vesper sparrow seen twice over the weekend wasn't seen yesterday but there were glimpses at a possible but unconfirmed clay-colored sparrow in this area. The red cedar tree along the road down from the campground parking is still quite full with fruit with 40+ yellow-rumped warblers at a time feeding on it. The lower tent camping area was also quite busy with cedar waxwings and robins competing with starling flocks for dogwood berries and the remaining poison ivy berries. In this area were also good numbers of white-throated sparrows moving through the brush with several swamp sparrows, two eastern towhees and two brown thrashers. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15420492 Anne Swaim Saw Mill River Audubon Chappaqua, NY -- 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/ --
