James Knox and I are currently watching a sizable south bound movement of Common Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds over Inwood Hill Park. In just 20 minutes, and standing in the middle of the soccer field looking west over the ridge, we had 1100+ Common Grackles, 300+ Red-winged Blackbirds, with many more undetectable, surely flying through the low cloud cover as we could occasionally perceive their ghostly silhouettes through the mist. I'm thinking that there were probably some Rusties mixed in as some of the "chup" calls seemed a bit lower pitched and quieter- but I won't count those. Other smaller flocks of migrating American Robin (75+) and Yellow-rumped Warblers (10+) were also present.
Keep'em up! Nadir Souirgi -- 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/ --
