A late afternoon walk at Big Egg Marsh Queens NY, turned up many of the usual species expected at this time of the year. Of interest, was a Chipping Sparrow that lacked the obvious Chestnut on the crown - suggesting a possible first-winter bird. The two juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers that I had there last Friday were not around and I could only hope that they survived the harassment from the Sharp-shinned Hawk that I observed buzzing them repeatedly.
*Species observed:* Swamp Sparrow - 6 Song Sparrow - 9 Savannah Sparrow - 15 White Throated Sparrow - 8 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Field Sparrow - 3 House Sparrow - several Brandt - 39 Canada Goose - 5 Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 European Starling - 35 House Finch - 3 American Crow - 6 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 3 + several flybys Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 4 Herring Gull - 3 Good and responsible birding! Andrew Baksh Queens, NY www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
