Goose Creek Marsh, Pelham Bay Park Thursday June 2, 2022 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen Highlights for Goose Creek Marsh and the adjacent Bridle Path between the marsh and Pelham and Split Rock Golf Course: After checking several spots for summer resident Virginia Rails, finding 5-7, we walked out to our favorite Saltmarsh Sparrow spot a few feet from the edge of the main channel through the marsh where we found two Saltmarsh Sparrows. Another sparrow in the vegetation along the edge of the channel flew across to the opposite bank and was a Seaside Sparrow, a species now rare for Pelham Bay Park, despite having nested there in 1955, when four pairs were reported breeding by Charles Young. Mourning Dove Virginia Rail - 5-7, probably 3 pairs and a lone bird Snowy Egret Turkey Vulture - 2 Northern Flicker Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Willow Flycatcher - 2 or 3 Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo American Crow - 2 Barn Swallow - at least a dozen nesting under the railroad bridge, others out on the marsh Marsh Wren - several singing Carolina Wren - 1 or 2 Gray Catbird - several Northern Mockingbird American Robin Seaside Sparrow - 1 at 10:36am Saltmarsh Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 2 Orchard Oriole - 3 (male, female, second-year male Bridle Path) Baltimore Oriole - a few Red-winged Blackbird - at least half-a-dozen Common Yellowthroat - 3 or 4 Yellow Warbler - many Plenty of Seaside Dragonlets about too. Deb Allen P. S. Should you wish to go out into the marsh to look for the sparrows and rails, waterproof boots such as wellies are required. Avoid patches of Spartina alterniflora, the taller of the two spartinas, as these may be growing in deep water.
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