[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 12/14/12 BLPW
A very late BLACKPOLL WARBLER was at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn today. I saw the bird briefly last Sunday, 12/9, but only got good confirming views (and a couple of poor photos) today. The bird was near the east corner of the park in the brushy, wooded strip between the tip of the basin and the Six Diamonds ball fields, associated with a flock of mostly typical winter songbirds that also included a NASHVILLE WARBLER. The Blackpoll was feeding low among weed stalks and stubble, often on the ground, but actively moving about. It was fairly bright olive-green above, with dark streaks on the back; white wing bars and edging on tertials and wingtips. Yellowish through face and breast, with indistinct streaking on sides, and dark line through the eye. White undertail coverts; yellow feet. This is later than any NY state record shown in eBird. The species is a long-range migrant, wintering in South America; there were a number of late reports in the immediate post-Sandy period, and it might be that this individual was part of that fallout. Also of note was a flock of 11 RED CROSSBILLS feeding in a small stand of cone-laden pines near the drive-in entrance in the newly renovated area along Shore Parkway. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 12/14/12 BLPW
A very late BLACKPOLL WARBLER was at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn today. I saw the bird briefly last Sunday, 12/9, but only got good confirming views (and a couple of poor photos) today. The bird was near the east corner of the park in the brushy, wooded strip between the tip of the basin and the Six Diamonds ball fields, associated with a flock of mostly typical winter songbirds that also included a NASHVILLE WARBLER. The Blackpoll was feeding low among weed stalks and stubble, often on the ground, but actively moving about. It was fairly bright olive-green above, with dark streaks on the back; white wing bars and edging on tertials and wingtips. Yellowish through face and breast, with indistinct streaking on sides, and dark line through the eye. White undertail coverts; yellow feet. This is later than any NY state record shown in eBird. The species is a long-range migrant, wintering in South America; there were a number of late reports in the immediate post-Sandy period, and it might be that this individual was part of that fallout. Also of note was a flock of 11 RED CROSSBILLS feeding in a small stand of cone-laden pines near the drive-in entrance in the newly renovated area along Shore Parkway. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 11/3/12
There was a strong flight today, as observed from Calvert Vaux Park, at the mouth of Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn. Blackbirds were moving in good numbers, as well as finches, pipits, bluebirds, robins, etc. After spending much of the morning with flyover birds, I found an unusually well-mixed flock at the Six Diamonds ball fields, where at least 14 species were seen feeding on the ground, including LAPLAND LONGSPUR, RUSTY BLACKBIRD, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, and PINE WARBLER. Notable for this late date was a WOOD-PEWEE, presumably Eastern, and a BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. Checking the bay at the end of the day I turned up a NORTHERN GANNET, and in the process flushed a NELSON’S SPARROW. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Dreier-Offerman Park, Kings, US-NY Nov 3, 2012 75 species Brant 400 Canada Goose 75 Mute Swan 2 Wood Duck 1 (Female.) Gadwall 5 American Wigeon 10 American Black Duck 30 Mallard 15 Black Scoter 1 Bufflehead 10 Ruddy Duck 1 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Northern Gannet 1 (Adult, over bay, 5:00 PM.) Double-crested Cormorant 30 Great Blue Heron 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron 4 Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 Cooper's Hawk 4 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Coot 1 Killdeer 20 Laughing Gull 30 Ring-billed Gull 30 Herring Gull 40 Great Black-backed Gull 10 Black Skimmer 16 (Flock flying around in the Creek mouth.) Rock Pigeon 20 Mourning Dove 10 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 15 American Kestrel 5 Peregrine Falcon 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 (Along basin edge near barges. Long wingtips reaching half way down tail; stronger wing bars; no tail pumping, compared to nearby Phoebe. Late date.) Eastern Phoebe 4 Blue Jay 10 American Crow 8 Tree Swallow 5 Black-capped Chickadee 20 Tufted Titmouse 7 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Brown Creeper 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 Eastern Bluebird 25 (Early flyover flock; multiple birds on Six Diamonds side and in NE corner.) Hermit Thrush 4 American Robin 200 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 100 American Pipit 30 (25 on the west field + flyovers.) Cedar Waxwing 15 Lapland Longspur 1 (With mixed flock on Six Diamonds fields, 2:00 PM. Called when it flew off.) Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (First fall female on eastern strip. Plain olive above, pale yellowish below, pale eye arcs, dark bill, no white on wing edge. Late date.) Palm Warbler 4 Pine Warbler 1 (WIth mixed flock on SIx Diamonds fields; fairly bright.) Yellow-rumped Warbler 150 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 3 Nelson's Sparrow 1 (At west tip of 44th St. field, 5:00 PM; costal type.) Fox Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 10 Swamp Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 50 Dark-eyed Junco 40 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird 1000 Rusty Blackbird 1 (Male, with mixed flock on Six Diamonds fields.) Common Grackle 400 Brown-headed Cowbird 25 Purple Finch 30 House Finch 2 Pine Siskin 30 American Goldfinch 100 -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn - CT Warbler
A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn today, in the strip between the Six Diamonds ball fields and the tidal basin. It was a first for me at the park, though there are at least three records over the last five years, all from the same general area as today’s sighting. Some passing Bobolinks and my first Palm Warblers of the season were also of note. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn - CT Warbler
A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn today, in the strip between the Six Diamonds ball fields and the tidal basin. It was a first for me at the park, though there are at least three records over the last five years, all from the same general area as today’s sighting. Some passing Bobolinks and my first Palm Warblers of the season were also of note. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn
There was a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT at Calvert Vaux Park today. The morning rain brought down some shorebirds, Kingbirds, and BOBOLINKS, as well as a PURPLE MARTIN. I suppose the martins are in the area yearly, but I rarely see them; a sighting in 2009 was similarly weather-driven. I’ll take this opportunity to provide an update on the BLUE GROSBEAK pair previously reported in the area. The birds did indeed nest, perhaps an unprecedented event for Brooklyn. A chick was seen on 7/18, but unfortunately the nest had been destroyed by 7/21, which was the last time I saw the adults. I’ve posted some documentation at: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/arboretum/BLGR/ Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Dreier-Offerman Park, Kings, US-NY Aug 18 Comments: Rain, sometimes heavy, through 9:30 am. 53 species (+2 other taxa) Canada Goose 3 Mute Swan 2 Mallard 10 Double-crested Cormorant 15 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 2 Snowy Egret 3 Green Heron 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 6 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 Semipalmated Plover 20 Killdeer 6 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 (Came down to the fields in the rain.) Semipalmated Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 1 (Heard among peeps taking off from field in rain.) peep sp. 25 (Group came down on the west fields during the rain.) Laughing Gull 30 Ring-billed Gull 10 Herring Gull 30 Great Black-backed Gull 5 Common Tern 35 Forster's Tern 2 Rock Pigeon 20 Mourning Dove 20 Chimney Swift 2 Belted Kingfisher 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 2 American Kestrel 1 Empidonax sp. 1 Eastern Kingbird 5 Warbling Vireo 1 American Crow 4 Purple Martin 1 (Juvenile, perched on lamppost during the rain. Photographed.) Tree Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 25 House Wren 1 Carolina Wren 2 American Robin 30 Gray Catbird 10 Northern Mockingbird 10 European Starling 150 Northern Waterthrush 3 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 American Redstart 4 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 (In brush on eastern wooded strip by Six Diamonds; good views.) Song Sparrow 15 Northern Cardinal 2 Bobolink 15 (Flock during the rain.) Red-winged Blackbird 30 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 10 House Sparrow 15 -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn
There was a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT at Calvert Vaux Park today. The morning rain brought down some shorebirds, Kingbirds, and BOBOLINKS, as well as a PURPLE MARTIN. I suppose the martins are in the area yearly, but I rarely see them; a sighting in 2009 was similarly weather-driven. I’ll take this opportunity to provide an update on the BLUE GROSBEAK pair previously reported in the area. The birds did indeed nest, perhaps an unprecedented event for Brooklyn. A chick was seen on 7/18, but unfortunately the nest had been destroyed by 7/21, which was the last time I saw the adults. I’ve posted some documentation at: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/arboretum/BLGR/ Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Dreier-Offerman Park, Kings, US-NY Aug 18 Comments: Rain, sometimes heavy, through 9:30 am. 53 species (+2 other taxa) Canada Goose 3 Mute Swan 2 Mallard 10 Double-crested Cormorant 15 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 2 Snowy Egret 3 Green Heron 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 6 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 Semipalmated Plover 20 Killdeer 6 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 (Came down to the fields in the rain.) Semipalmated Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 1 (Heard among peeps taking off from field in rain.) peep sp. 25 (Group came down on the west fields during the rain.) Laughing Gull 30 Ring-billed Gull 10 Herring Gull 30 Great Black-backed Gull 5 Common Tern 35 Forster's Tern 2 Rock Pigeon 20 Mourning Dove 20 Chimney Swift 2 Belted Kingfisher 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 2 American Kestrel 1 Empidonax sp. 1 Eastern Kingbird 5 Warbling Vireo 1 American Crow 4 Purple Martin 1 (Juvenile, perched on lamppost during the rain. Photographed.) Tree Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 25 House Wren 1 Carolina Wren 2 American Robin 30 Gray Catbird 10 Northern Mockingbird 10 European Starling 150 Northern Waterthrush 3 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 American Redstart 4 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 (In brush on eastern wooded strip by Six Diamonds; good views.) Song Sparrow 15 Northern Cardinal 2 Bobolink 15 (Flock during the rain.) Red-winged Blackbird 30 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 10 House Sparrow 15 -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 5/28/11
A couple of noteworthy birds were at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn today. A female BLUE GROSEBEAK came up out of the high grasses in the corner along the Six Diamonds ball fields fence near Shore Parkway. Later, an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was on the baseball fields in the same area. It was initially seen roosting on one of the decaying barges in the basin, and subsequently on the beach across the creek mouth; I believe all sightings were the same bird, which had a gimpy leg. Another somewhat unusual bird for the site was a Black Scoter in the basin, perhaps the same one seen on April 30th. That bird had an apparent injured wing, which could explain its lingering in a spot where scoters are seldom seen, even when large numbers are present on offshore waters in the area. Otherwise, the only obvious migrant was a female Blackpoll Warbler, but there was a good showing of potential nesting species including such previously confirmed breeders as Willow Flycatcher, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Indigo Bunting and Orchard Oriole. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Location: Dreier-Offerman Park Observation date: 5/28/11 Number of species: 51 Brant (Atlantic) 1 Canada Goose 10 Mute Swan 2 Mallard 10 Black Scoter 1 (Perhaps the same bird seen on 4/30 with injured wing; uncommon here, and late.) Red-throated Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 35 Great Egret 3 Snowy Egret 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 6 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 Killdeer 2 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Laughing Gull 25 Ring-billed Gull 10 Herring Gull (American) 15 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 (Adult. Seen sitting on barge, on Six Diamonds field and on beach across the creek mouth. Had a gimpy leg. Photographed.) Great Black-backed Gull 15 Common Tern 7 Sterna sp. 5 Rock Pigeon 15 Mourning Dove 10 Monk Parakeet 4 Chimney Swift 10 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Willow Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 (Singing along Bay 44th St strip.) Warbling Vireo 6 Red-eyed Vireo 3 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 2 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 20 American Robin 25 Gray Catbird 10 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 60 Cedar Waxwing 10 Yellow Warbler 5 Blackpoll Warbler 1 (Female.) Common Yellowthroat 4 Song Sparrow 5 Blue Grosbeak 1 (Female, came up out of grasses at SE corner near Six Diamonds fence.) Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 30 Common Grackle 10 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 Orchard Oriole 3 (Adult male; female and one yellow bird not well-seen.) Baltimore Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow 15 -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 5/28/11
A couple of noteworthy birds were at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn today. A female BLUE GROSEBEAK came up out of the high grasses in the corner along the Six Diamonds ball fields fence near Shore Parkway. Later, an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was on the baseball fields in the same area. It was initially seen roosting on one of the decaying barges in the basin, and subsequently on the beach across the creek mouth; I believe all sightings were the same bird, which had a gimpy leg. Another somewhat unusual bird for the site was a Black Scoter in the basin, perhaps the same one seen on April 30th. That bird had an apparent injured wing, which could explain its lingering in a spot where scoters are seldom seen, even when large numbers are present on offshore waters in the area. Otherwise, the only obvious migrant was a female Blackpoll Warbler, but there was a good showing of potential nesting species including such previously confirmed breeders as Willow Flycatcher, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Indigo Bunting and Orchard Oriole. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Location: Dreier-Offerman Park Observation date: 5/28/11 Number of species: 51 Brant (Atlantic) 1 Canada Goose 10 Mute Swan 2 Mallard 10 Black Scoter 1 (Perhaps the same bird seen on 4/30 with injured wing; uncommon here, and late.) Red-throated Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 35 Great Egret 3 Snowy Egret 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 6 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 Killdeer 2 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Laughing Gull 25 Ring-billed Gull 10 Herring Gull (American) 15 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 (Adult. Seen sitting on barge, on Six Diamonds field and on beach across the creek mouth. Had a gimpy leg. Photographed.) Great Black-backed Gull 15 Common Tern 7 Sterna sp. 5 Rock Pigeon 15 Mourning Dove 10 Monk Parakeet 4 Chimney Swift 10 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Willow Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 (Singing along Bay 44th St strip.) Warbling Vireo 6 Red-eyed Vireo 3 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 2 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 20 American Robin 25 Gray Catbird 10 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 60 Cedar Waxwing 10 Yellow Warbler 5 Blackpoll Warbler 1 (Female.) Common Yellowthroat 4 Song Sparrow 5 Blue Grosbeak 1 (Female, came up out of grasses at SE corner near Six Diamonds fence.) Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 30 Common Grackle 10 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 Orchard Oriole 3 (Adult male; female and one yellow bird not well-seen.) Baltimore Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow 15 -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 9/5/09 Clay-colored; Whimbrels
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW popped up from the scrub on the previously cleared-now overgrown edge of the boat basin at Calvert Vaux Park today around 1 PM. As I tried to track the bird I was distracted by the calls of two WHIMBRELS, flying east up the creek, and disappearing beyond the tree line on the far side of the park. Earlier in the morning they’d been feeding on the west lawn, retreating a couple of times to the water’s edge along the creek’s mouth. These have been around since at least 9/1 when first reported by Rob Jett and represent a new species for the park list, which now numbers over 200 species. Also notable was a good movement of BOBOLINKS, with numerous birds passing overhead as well as through the park's grassy areas. The park is also good for insects, today's butterflies including Viceroy, Variegated Fritillary and numbers of Common Buckeye. Good Birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Highlights: Location: Calvert Vaux Park, AKA Dreier-Offerman Park Observation date: 9/5/09 Number of species: 57 Red-breasted Merganser 1 (Female roosting along edge of creek mouth.) Great Blue Heron 1 Snowy Egret 2 Green Heron 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron 5 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (1 or 2, seen on east and west edges of park.) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 (Juvenile flyover, harassed by 4 Kestrels.) American Kestrel 5 (Mostly from local family.) Solitary Sandpiper 1 (Flew out from basin early AM.) Whimbrel 2 (Moving between west lawn and edge of creek mouth in the AM; flying east up the creek, across the mouth of the basin and out of sight at 1PM.) Least Sandpiper 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Willow Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Veery 3 Brown Thrasher 1 Yellow Warbler 6 Magnolia Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (Female.) Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1 (FoS, early.) American Redstart 15 Northern Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 4 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 (Flew up from scrub along edge of basin on main peninsula of park; perched briefly in tree giving clear views.) Bobolink 100 (Flocks of 30 and 20 on either side of main peninsula; one larger flyover flock with several other calling flybys and passovers.) -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 9/5/09 Clay-colored; Whimbrels
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW popped up from the scrub on the previously cleared-now overgrown edge of the boat basin at Calvert Vaux Park today around 1 PM. As I tried to track the bird I was distracted by the calls of two WHIMBRELS, flying east up the creek, and disappearing beyond the tree line on the far side of the park. Earlier in the morning they’d been feeding on the west lawn, retreating a couple of times to the water’s edge along the creek’s mouth. These have been around since at least 9/1 when first reported by Rob Jett and represent a new species for the park list, which now numbers over 200 species. Also notable was a good movement of BOBOLINKS, with numerous birds passing overhead as well as through the park's grassy areas. The park is also good for insects, today's butterflies including Viceroy, Variegated Fritillary and numbers of Common Buckeye. Good Birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Highlights: Location: Calvert Vaux Park, AKA Dreier-Offerman Park Observation date: 9/5/09 Number of species: 57 Red-breasted Merganser 1 (Female roosting along edge of creek mouth.) Great Blue Heron 1 Snowy Egret 2 Green Heron 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron 5 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (1 or 2, seen on east and west edges of park.) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 (Juvenile flyover, harassed by 4 Kestrels.) American Kestrel 5 (Mostly from local family.) Solitary Sandpiper 1 (Flew out from basin early AM.) Whimbrel 2 (Moving between west lawn and edge of creek mouth in the AM; flying east up the creek, across the mouth of the basin and out of sight at 1PM.) Least Sandpiper 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Willow Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Veery 3 Brown Thrasher 1 Yellow Warbler 6 Magnolia Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (Female.) Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1 (FoS, early.) American Redstart 15 Northern Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 4 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 (Flew up from scrub along edge of basin on main peninsula of park; perched briefly in tree giving clear views.) Bobolink 100 (Flocks of 30 and 20 on either side of main peninsula; one larger flyover flock with several other calling flybys and passovers.) -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 9/5/09 Clay-colored; Whimbrels
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW popped up from the scrub on the previously cleared-now overgrown edge of the boat basin at Calvert Vaux Park today around 1 PM. As I tried to track the bird I was distracted by the calls of two WHIMBRELS, flying east up the creek, and disappearing beyond the tree line on the far side of the park. Earlier in the morning they’d been feeding on the west lawn, retreating a couple of times to the water’s edge along the creek’s mouth. These have been around since at least 9/1 when first reported by Rob Jett and represent a new species for the park list, which now numbers over 200 species. Also notable was a good movement of BOBOLINKS, with numerous birds passing overhead as well as through the park's grassy areas. The park is also good for insects, today's butterflies including Viceroy, Variegated Fritillary and numbers of Common Buckeye. Good Birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Highlights: Location: Calvert Vaux Park, AKA Dreier-Offerman Park Observation date: 9/5/09 Number of species: 57 Red-breasted Merganser 1 (Female roosting along edge of creek mouth.) Great Blue Heron 1 Snowy Egret 2 Green Heron 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron 5 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 (1 or 2, seen on east and west edges of park.) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 (Juvenile flyover, harassed by 4 Kestrels.) American Kestrel 5 (Mostly from local family.) Solitary Sandpiper 1 (Flew out from basin early AM.) Whimbrel 2 (Moving between west lawn and edge of creek mouth in the AM; flying east up the creek, across the mouth of the basin and out of sight at 1PM.) Least Sandpiper 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Willow Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Veery 3 Brown Thrasher 1 Yellow Warbler 6 Magnolia Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (Female.) Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1 (FoS, early.) American Redstart 15 Northern Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 4 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 (Flew up from scrub along edge of basin on main peninsula of park; perched briefly in tree giving clear views.) Bobolink 100 (Flocks of 30 and 20 on either side of main peninsula; one larger flyover flock with several other calling flybys and passovers.) -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
