I'm used to seeing (or hearing) Willow Flycatchers in the general vicinity of salt marshes. This weekend, my son had soccer games in Levittown and Dix Hills. Both locations are far removed from any salt marsh habitat or any water at all for that matter, but both locations seemed to have some kind of recharge basin with singing Willow Flycatchers.
Levittown location: 40.716017, -73.525575 Dix Hills Location: 40.788844,-73.390474 The Levittiown field appears as MacLaren Stadium on Google maps (they'be got some nerve calling this hole in the ground a stadium). The Dix Hills field appear as Half Hollow Park on Google maps (it's also called HBC Soccer Park). Anyway, I thought some people might be interested and was wondering how many recharge basins on Long Island might have this bird as a breeder. Glenn Quinn Hauppauge, NY -- 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/ --
