This post was for birding done on 11/12/2016 (Saturday) not 11/11. Sorry about the mix-up!
On Saturday, November 12, 2016, Jared Cole <jaredadamc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matthieu Benoit and I (Jared Cole) birded Pelham Bay Park in The Bronx, > NY, on 11/11/2016 from sunrise (about 6:40am) to sunset (about 4:40pm). > > We started at Twin Islands, eventually concluding in the Southern Zone of > the park. We did not observe any morning flight. We did have a good > diversity (in low numbers) of several migratory/resident raptors, including > Bald Eagles, Northern Harrier, Cooper's Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, > Red-tailed Hawk, and Peregrine Falcon. We had 8 Emberizidae sparrows > including Eastern Towhee, American Tree Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Swamp > Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, and > Dark-eyed Junco. > > Two species that stood out were Eastern Bluebirds and Cattle Egret, both > observed by the landfill. We spent just under an hour (3:20-4:10pm) along > the edge of the landfill in the southern zone of the park. We had 6 Eastern > Bluebirds fly up onto the barbwire fence and then over into the landfill > area. Just after passing the landfill, we set up along the fence and had a > Cattle Egret fly by. The Cattle Egret flew southeast from the edge of the > landfill, but we lost it as it flew over the docks that stick into > Eastchester Bay. We snapped photos of both species and they are on the > eBird list: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32507644. > > I will be uploading the other lists to eBird later but wanted to get this > one out in case birders wanted to have a look in The Bronx tomorrow. > #bronxbird > > Cheers, > > Jared Cole > -- 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/ --
