What a difference a week makes! Many good birds at NYBG but the quantities were low and movement was nothing compared to last week. Most birds migrated either before or after Friday's storm. The Saturday morning bird walk had 21 people and we observed the following birds:
Pine Siskin-2 Song sparrow-3 Field sparrow-1 America tree sparrow-1 White throated sparrow-many White crowned sparrow-1 House Finch Chickadee -2 Tufted Titmouse-8 Cardinal-3 Blue Jay-many Grackle - large flock Brown Thrasher-1 Hermit Thrush-4 American Goldfinch-5 Northern Flicker (heard) Yellow-bellied sapsucker-4 Red-bellied woodpecker-3 Downy woodpecker-1 Mockingbird-1 American Robin-many Red-tailed hawk-3 Wood duck -15 Mallard-10+ Cedar Waxwing-2 Eastern Phoebe-5 Yellow rumped warbler-3 Belted Kingfisher -1 Gray Catbird (heard) Mourning Dove-2 Good Birding Debbie Becker BirdingAroundNYC.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/ --
