Kissena Park, Saturday, 2 Nov 2013 7:30AM-1:15PM A mild and enjoyable day of relaxed yet intensely focused birding led by Eric Miller produced some surprising numbers but no real rarities for the date. Other species encountered were at least half a dozen Norway rats (very beautiful, if pesky) and a Question Mark/Comma butterfly.
14 Canada Goose 2 American Black Duck 4 Mallard 4 Ring-necked Pheasant 13+ Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Cormorant 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Ring-billed Gull 3 Herring Gull (American) 11 Rock Pigeon 12 Mourning Dove 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 6 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 American Kestrel 1 Merlin 14 Eastern Phoebe 3 Blue-headed Vireo 9 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 1 Winter Wren 3 Carolina Wren 6 Golden-crowned Kinglet 16 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10 Hermit Thrush 27 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 3 Brown Thrasher 7 Northern Mockingbird 17 European Starling 26 Cedar Waxwing 1 Northern Parula 2 Palm Warbler (Western) 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 5 Eastern Towhee 10 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 2 Vesper Sparrow 4 Fox Sparrow (Red) 78 Song Sparrow 10 Swamp Sparrow 122 White-throated Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 8 Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 21 Red-winged Blackbird 4 House Finch 7 American Goldfinch 22 House Sparrow 1 Linnet (continuing, seen briefly by a few members of the party) Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore -- 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/ --