Thanks, Anders, for posting my NYNYBIRD text. I found the two Cliff Swallows at the Meer on Bob DeCandido's bird walk and was able to get a photo of one at a little before 9:15am. By lunchtime the swallows had been seen by several more birders. Also in the flock, which had swelled to more than two dozen birds were Tree Swallows, Barn Swallows, and Northern Rough-winged Swallows. The swallows would perch in a tree on the island, then fly off together (perhaps to warm up), allowing good, but distant looks at both perched and flying birds.
Cliff Swallow photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18002216 Other birds (not all) at the north end this morning: Wood Duck - male at the Meer Bufflehead - 4 at the Pool Double-crested Cormorant Great Egret Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Fish Crow Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Blue-gray Gnatcatchers - 2, one at either end of the Loch Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Eastern Towhee Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow American Goldfinch At the Reservoir the Common Loon came in close at the northeast corner. Also seen there: American Black Duck (2), Northern Shoveler (10), Bufflehead (10)Hooded Merganser (2), Ruddy Duck (2), American Coot (1) and three species of gulls, but not Laughing Gull. Deborah Allen -----Original Message----- From: Anders Peltomaa Sent: Apr 10, 2015 9:56 AM To: "NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu" , Phil Jeffries Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NY, NY: Cliff Swallows Just got a text from Deborah Allen. two cliff swallows at meer with barn tree n rough winged. The Meer is the lake at the North end of Central Park. good birding, Anders Peltomaa ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.' – Martin Luther King, Jr. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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/ --
