Highlights: three American Oystercatchers and a Ruddy Turnstone at Dead Horse Bay; Oystercatchers have bred there in past seasons. Big scaup raft still present. First E. Phoebe for us along North Forty trail at Floyd Bennett, along with peepers, painted turtles and first butterfly, the inevitable Cabbage white, at Return-A-Gift Pond.
Brant X Canada Goose X Mute Swan X American Black Duck X Mallard X Northern Shoveler X Green-winged Teal X Greater Scaup X Bufflehead X Hooded Merganser X Common Loon X Double-crested Cormorant X Turkey Vulture X Cooper's Hawk X American Oystercatcher X Ruddy Turnstone X Ring-billed Gull X Herring Gull X Great Black-backed Gull X Rock Pigeon X Mourning Dove X Downy Woodpecker X Eastern Phoebe X Blue Jay X American Crow X American Robin X Northern Mockingbird X European Starling X Yellow-rumped Warbler X Song Sparrow X Northern Cardinal X Red-winged Blackbird X House Sparrow X Matthew Backyard and Beyond: A Natural History Blog http://matthewwills.com/ -- 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/ --
