Central Park NYC
Sunday May 29, 2016
OBS: Robert DeCandido, Deborah Allen, m.ob. on bird walk starting from the dock
on Turtle Pond at 9am.
Canada Goose - pair with brood of 6 Lake near Bethesda Fountain
Gadwall - pair Turtle Pond
Mallard - many half-grown ducklings Turtle Pond
Double-crested Co
A singing male Prothonotary Warbler was found this morning (approx. 9:00AM) at
Connetquot River State Park. The bird was singing in the Oaks on the west side
of the river just north of the fish hatchery parking lot. The bird appeared to
be moving north along the river and after a short period ce
This morning around 8:30 Bobby Rosetti and I heard a Kentucky warbler singing
from dense shrubery in the southern end of the preserve. We never saw it, and
apparently it was staying low. We heard it from trail 7(per the reserve map),
the main paved east west path starting at the route 106 entran
In response to an inquiry posted here, banded birds can be reported to the
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, which is part of the U.S. Geological
Service. You can find details, along with photos of various types of bands,
here:
https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/bblretrv/index.cfm
Click the tabs
NPR ran a story on the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge restoration effort
this morning that may be of interest:
http://wamc.org/post/wrecked-superstorm-sandy-conservationists-work-restore-migratory-birds-refuge.
Andy Mason
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Andrew Mason
1039 Peck St.
Jefferson, NY 12093
(607) 652-2162
andyma...
Since posting this morning I have received correspondence from a few
birders who viewed the birds yesterday and had them fly off to sights
unseen on different occasions. Considering the initial sightings yesterday
were mid morning it goes without saying that Marine Park should be checked
repeatedly
The Black-bellied Whistling Ducks are not present this morning at Marine Park.
Coincidentally, 9 ducks were seen flying east at 5:20am over the intersection
of Flatbush Ave and Kings Highway.
Good birding,
Sean Sime
Brooklyn, NY
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