At least 35 American Kestrels were seen actively feeding mid-day today from well posts or from overhead hover on the Croton Point Park landfill grasslands. They seemed to be catching grasshopper after grasshopper.
Thanks to Croton Point Naturalist John Phillips for heads up on this! >From his report, there may have been even more earlier in morning. Single Northern Harrier (immature) present as well as continuing, good numbers of Osprey. Seven Osprey seen today. A walk this past Monday had high count of 12 Osprey along Croton and Haverstraw Bays. One adult Bald Eagle was also seen today. Increasing numbers of Savannah Sparrows are on the landfill, 11 seen today. American Pipit flock seen last weekend and Monday with high count of 16 on Monday was not observed today. -- Anne Swaim Saw Mill River Audubon www.sawmillriveraudubon.org -- 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/ --
