Gerry McGee, Paul Citrin, Bob Ruvolo and I began at Strawberry Fields this morning and birded our way through a few areas of the park, both east and west.
The Hackberry tree adjacent to the flat rock, by the Imagine Plaque, was magical. We had difficulty leaving after seeing 14 species in that tree alone, and then another 11 species in the surrounding foliage. In many cases we saw multiple birds of each species. Rose-breasted Grosbeak Great Crested Flycatcher Scarlet Tanager Palm Warbler Black-throated Blue Eastern-Wood Peewee Connecticut Warbler (in foliage near Imagine Plaque) House Finch Northern Parula Pine Warbler Black and White Warbler Swainson’s Thrush Brown Thrasher Common Yellowthroat Eastern Phoebe Chestnut-sided Warbler Tennessee Warbler Red-eyed Vireo Red-breasted Nuthatch Cedar Waxwing American Redstart Northern Flicker Red-bellied Woodpecker Blue Jay Northern Waterthrush Peregrine Falcon American Goldfinch Magnolia Warbler Ruby-throated Hummingbird Northern Cardinal Mourning Dove White-eyed Vireo (Pinetum) Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull Double-crested Cormorant Great Black-backed Gull Jack Rothman CityIslandBirds.com -- 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/ --
