Doodletown, Iona Island, Mine Road: 1 June Assembling at the foot of Doodletown Rd, 11 Long Island birders, arriving within 5 minutes of the 7:30 AM time, enjoyed good birding and companionship as we explored this upstate (for us) area for breeding birds. Raptors included BLACK and TURKEY VULTURES, RED-SHOULDER and RED-TAIL HAWKS and a BALD EAGLE.
As to the smaller birds,YELLOW-THROATED, WARBLING and RED-EYED VIREOS were heard as we exited the car, a nice start for the day. We saw YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHERS,.SCARLET TANAGER and INDIGO BUNTINGS. Warblers were our prime target birds and included, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, BLUE-WINGED, CERULEAN, HOODED,YELLOW and AMERICAN REDSTART. We stopped at Iona Island for lunch and found a CLIFF SWALLOW resting on a power line wire. At Mine Road, we found our target birds of GOLDEN-WINGED, BLUE-WINGED and more CERULEAN WARBLERS. The Golden-winged was heard but not seen after extensive looking. At the end of Mine Road, a CLIFF SWALLOW was gathering mud from a puddle at a house by the lake. Sy Schiff -- 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/ --
