On our City Island Birds walk, our friendly group spent three hours birding around Turtle Cove and a small area near Orchard Beach. This was the day for Orioles, spotting approximately forty Baltimore and a couple of Orchard. Also in great numbers were Yellow Warblers, they were singing everywhere, as were Warbling Vireos. We heard a calling Clapper Rail but it failed to come out of the tall grass. There was even a Helmeted Guinea Fowl hanging around the Rodman's Neck parking area, well fed by the locals. There were not as many warbler species as I would have expected but we saw several of many of the birds listed, with some great views. Pelham Bay Park is beautiful this time of the year.
Helmeted Guineafowl Warbling Vireo Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Black-crowned Night Heron Yellow Warbler Black and White Warbler Osprey American Goldfinch Great Egret Snowy Egret Double-crested Cormorant Killdeer Least Sandpiper Barn Swallow Tree Swallow Marsh Wren Clapper Rail (clearly calling but well hidden) Monk Parakeet American Crow Greater Black-backed Gull Brown-headed Cowbird Eastern Mockingbird Mallard Blue Jay Canada Goose Mourning Dove Downy Woodpecker Song Sparrow Brant Catbird Eastern Towhee American Robins European Starlings House Sparrows Jack Rothman Pelham Bay Park, Bronx www.cityislandbirds.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/ --
