Finally, on October 35th, it felt like fall this morning in the Sands Point Preserve. It was about 44 degrees at 8AM and their was quite a bit of migratory movement. I didn’t see anything outstanding but did pick up some fall birds that I had missed up to this point. There was a big push of Dark-eyed Junco and American Robin, about 125+ juncos and 450+ robins. A Field Sparrow and a Fox Sparrow were the best examples of sparrows. 3 Winter Wren and a Blue-headed Vireo were also found. About 25 Golden-crowned Kinglets but only 3 or so Ruby-crowned. A small Merlin and a small Peregrine Falcon were driving the robins and others crazy. Overhead, there were small flocks of true migratory Canada Geese way, way up there. Also, I found a flock of 10 Black Ducks heading north very high up; not used to seeing them way up there. A few White-winged Scoters, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, 1 each of Red-throated and Common Loon on LI Sound. Also, 3 or 4 Common Loons migrating overhead.
After, I walked down to Prospect Point (west of the preserve) where I found an immature Bald Eagle fairly high up and 8 American Pipits on the beach. Later, at my mother’s house on Manhasset Bay (Port Washington; Nassau), I found a single Forster’s Tern; a little late for the north shore. Cheers, Glenn Quinn Hauppauge, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
