I visited EPCAL in Calverton in hoping to see the resident blue grosbeak. While I struck out with the grosbeak, I had a very pleasant morning at this lovely property, viewing grasshopper and field sparrows, good numbers of pine and prairie warblers, orchard orioles, flycatchers, and a yellow-billed cuckoo who, withstanding the traffic on Grumman Blvd and my phone alarm, remarkably continued c-c-c-c-c-c-c-kowlping for almost 3 minutes, all while being serenaded by oriole and prairie warbler song.
Here is a link to a video if this, along with a puffy little grasshopper sparrow, and an eastern kingbird regurgitating a pellet: https://www.flickr.com/gp/50403904@N03/s64e9Q Happy summer birding, Peter -- 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/ --
