Early Wednesday afternoon I saw a Vesper Sparrow at All Faiths Cemetery in
Middle Village. As I approached it I also flushed a Wilson's Snipe. Both
birds were located in the flat area about halfway between the the Christ
the King parking lot and the train tracks to the south.
During a brief visit
Birders et al,
BirdCallsRadio archive is now available of guest Pete Dunne, co-author
discusses Hawk in Flight second edition.
Pete also breaks down the identification of several hawk species that often
give birders difficulty.
http://birdcallsradio.com/2012/10/09/birdcallsradio-pete-dunne-2/
I did not see an American white pelican today at Jamaica Bay NWR. I
last spotted it at the West Pond on Monday. Other birders saw it
Monday and noted it in the parks birdlog. There was a late-season
glossy ibis at the West Pond today. Today and Monday there was an
unusually high number (~40) of sn
Did some birding in the rain this morning. Floyd Bennett was very birdy
although diversity was low - many hundreds of common sparrows and
yellow-rumped warblers but little else. Best birds were two American
Pipits on the Cricket Field and a Jaeger (Parasitic I think) sitting with
the gulls in fro
The adult Franklin's Gull and American Avocet are still present in Puddler's
Marsh, viewable from the far end of Towpath Road at Montezuma as of 5:45 pm
today.
Rich Fried
NYC
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