Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) encountered the fallout at Jones Beach West End. Surprisingly, the number of species was modest, but some of the numbers made up for it. Starting with Quantity, TREE SWALLOW-3-5.000 (hard to count or guesstimate when the sky was covered and full of them); PINE SISKIN-400 (streaming through early in the morning in medium sized flocks); YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER-hundreds; BLACK SKIMMER-100+; NORTHERN FLICKER-scores;EASTERN PHOEBE-50+ (they were everywhere, there were 5 closely lined up on the Coast Guard fence at one time); only 6 species of warbler and 7 species of sparrows. Other birds included 3 widely scattered BLUE-HEADED VIREO, BROUN CREEPER, RUBY and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS and INDIGO BUNTING.
Hawks were few but included TWO BALD EAGLES, adult and immature; a COOPER'S HAWK, PEREGRINE FALCONS and several MERLIN. (Eagles at the beach are always special.) We arrived at Robert Moses SP later in the morning where the activity had died down. Just before the turnaround to Field #2 we encountered Shai Mitra, who was focused on a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. We stopped to look.. The Hawk Watch counters starting earlier in the morning, reported few hawks, but much greater numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers and Pine Siskin than we had seen at the other end of the Jones strip. They had not seen any eagles. Beautiful Fall day, Great to be out. Sy -- 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/ --
