Our City Island Birds club walked Hunter Island this morning on a gray, damp and cool morning. The “bird of the day” were Baltimore Orioles, which seemed to all over the island. Interestingly there were no sparrows except for one White-throat calling in the distance. Special thanks to “Big Bob” aka Dr. Robert Ruvolo, for carrying his 12x50 binoculars that allowed us to ID two Common Loons out in the distance. Bob went from 8x to 10x and now 12x!
A very friendly, social and fun walk, as usual. Great Black-backed Gull 6 Ring-billed Gulls 2 Orchard Orioles 8 Baltimore Orioles 2 Yellow-rumped Warblers 2 Black and White Warbler 2 Yellow Warblers Palm Warbler House Finch Northern Flicker 2 Tufted Titmouse 3 Eastern Towhee Black-capped Chickadee 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hermit Thrush Red-breasted Merganser 2 Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Fish Crow 2 Warbling Vireo 20 Brant 3 White-breasted Nuthatch Gray Catbird 3 Great Egrets 6 Blue Jay 4 Northern Cardinal 36 American Robin 4 Common Grackle 8 Red-winged Blackbird Mallard Nearby, at Turtle Cove, Matthew Lootens found: Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs (noticeably smaller than the other yellowlegs present; distinctively shorter bill relative to head size; and white flanks) Killdeer Song Sparrow 2 Snowy Egrets 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds Northern Flicker Jack Rothman 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/ --
