Joe Giunta and I(Sy Schiff) birded Gardiner Co. Park, Suffolk Co. this morning. No migrants were found, but the walk to the marsh was a delightful expanse of singing, breeding birds. At the marsh, to our left were 4 SALTMARSH SPARROWS; to our right 3 SEASIDE SPARROWS. Just before the marsh, a WILLOW FLYCATCHER was singing high in the trees.
Shorebirds were few but included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LEAST SANDPIPER, WILLET and GREATER YELLOWLEGS. A lone GREAT EGRET was in the marsh. A pair of OSPREY were in the air. YELLOW WARBLERS were everywhere. (Joe counted 14--could have been more); vireos consisted of WARBLING, RED-EYED and WHITE-EYED; flycatchers--GREAT-CRESTED and WILLOW; woodpeckers--DOWNY, HAIRY and RED-BELLIED.There was RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, HOUSE WREN, CEDAR WAXWING, BLACK-and-WHITE WARBLER and a number of COMMON YELLOWTHROATS among other birds. A delightful morning. Sy -- 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/ --