I spent a pleasant day hiking around the southern half of Conntquot River State Park Preserve. It was fairly quiet birdwise. Birds seen and heard included several towhees tweeting from the scrub oak along the LI Greenbelt Trail, chipping sparrows trilling near the main parking lot, a pair of kestrels that I assume are a mated pair perching in some dead pine snags in the open grassy area southwest of Bunce's Bridge, eastern bluebirds utilizing the nest boxes north of the parking lot, and numerous pine warblers trilling in the more pitch pine dominated sections of the preserve. The highlight was wonderful, prolonged views of a yellow-throated warbler foraging in the trees over the river just south of the fish hatchery along the red trail. It was accompanied by a lone blue-grey gnatcatcher, whose wheezy song first attracted my attention.
John Turner -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
