In just over an hour at Hempstead Lake State park, by the northern end north of the picnic area, there was a nice variety of warblers, including Cape May, Bay-breasted (2 found by Pat Palladino), Blackburnian, Nashville(2), BT Green, Blackpoll, Black&White & Parula. Seen by others in the park were Canada Warbler and Red-headed Woodpecker.
At Jones beach west end the mosquitoes got progessively worse as it warmed up this morning, but there was also a nice variety of birds - Baltimore Oriole, RB Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, Pewee(heard only), Wood Thrush, Canada, Wilson's, Magnolia, Parula, Ovenbird, N Waterthrush, Black & White and surpisingly a Green Heron that was flushed by crows in the scrub north of the CG station parking lot -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
