Stewart Park, Tompkins, US-NY Sep 8, 2011 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.75 mile(s) Comments: Awesome birding today after the rainstorm with lots of migrants around and nice weather. Good warbler flocks around swan pen and entrance path to Renwick. 57 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 75 Wood Duck 2 on flooded lawn, also a vocal bird at the swan pen American Black Duck 5 flew in from north Mallard 60 Green-winged Teal 1 Hooded Merganser 1 Common Merganser 6 Ruddy Duck 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 50 Great Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 8 seemed like these were everywhere today Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 adult and juv at swan pen Bald Eagle 2 third-year and adult Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 gliding south overhead fairly high; first September record for Stewart Park Red-tailed Hawk 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 1 shorebird sp. 12 On flotsam offshore; tried to confirm ID from East Shore Park but birds had evidently moved on. Franklin's Gull 1 Continuing adult on red lighthouse jetty Ring-billed Gull 100 mostly on the golf course Herring Gull (American) 1 Great Black-backed Gull 4 Caspian Tern 20 Mourning Dove 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Least Flycatcher 1 calling at swan pen, good looks Eastern Phoebe 2 Warbling Vireo (Eastern) 2 singing softly at swan pen Blue Jay 10 American Crow 15 mobbing a great-horned owl in renwick Tree Swallow 100 Bank Swallow 15 Barn Swallow 20 Black-capped Chickadee 8 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2 Carolina Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 4 Gray Catbird 2 European Starling 15 Cedar Waxwing 1 Magnolia Warbler 4 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow 10 -- Tim Lenz [email protected] Web Applications Developer Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
