A lovely, warm morning for my American Museum of Natural History bird walk group. We had a total of 41 species. Highlights included:
Wood Duck (pair on Upper Lobe) Gadwall (male on Lake) Bufflehead (male on Lake) single Great Blue Heron and Great Egret (both flyovers) Barred Owl (in usual spot, but no sign of Saw-whet) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (maybe half a dozen) Eastern Phoebe Brown Creeper both Kinglets Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher (by weather station) P ine Warbler (about six nw of Shakespeare Garden, including some extremely bright yellow males) Palm Warbler (various places) Eastern Towhee (by weather station and Tanner's Spring - singing) Chpping Sparrow (west of Great Lawn and at Sparrow Rock) Field Sparrow (west of Great Lawn) Rusty Blackbird (Upper Lobe) Joe DiCostanzo www.greatgullisland.org -- 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/ --
