Highlights from 3 sites, 2 in Queens and 1 in Brooklyn. Queens - Fort Tilden:
A juvenile Black Brant continues. Moving with the Brant flock between Fort Tilden and the Riis Park Golf Course. The other notable observation in the Brant flock was one with a geolocator attached to a red and white band. There is an ongoing 5 year Atlantic Brant migration and ecology study being done by NJDEP Fish and Wildlife, NYDEC and CWS (Canadian Wildlife Service). If you observe a red band in the field, please try to read the code and report your findings to the Bird Banding Laboratory (https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/) Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge - West Pond loop trail, North and South Gardens: Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2) Eastern Phoebe (1) Purple Finch (5) Orange-crowned Warbler (1) Brooklyn - Bush Terminal Piers Park: 2nd Calendar Year Lesser Black-backed Gull. Eastern Phoebe (2) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) Indio Bunting (2) Both Lesser and Greater Scaup. A Happy and safe Thanksgiving to all! Cheers, -------- "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu The Art of War > (\__/) > (= '.'=) > (") _ (") > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
