Seth Ausubel, Isaac Grant, Tom (whose last name I can't remember, sorry) and I birded Fort Tilden and Jacob Riis this morning from dawn until just after noon. Highlights were two Vesper Sparrows that flushed from the community garden to the trees over the houses north of the garden, a Yellow-breasted Chat near the manure pile (west of the baseball fields along the path the hawkwatch), over 100 Purple Finch, 20 Pine Siskins and a Rusty Blackbird as part of the morning flight, and 3 Royal Terns heading west.
eBird list below (low estimates, and the siskin number doesn't correspond with the number above because I personally only saw one of the siskins). Good Birding, Corey Finger http://10000birds.comLocation: Fort Tilden Observation date: 10/17/10 Number of species: 62 Brant - Branta bernicla X Canada Goose - Branta canadensis X Black Scoter - Melanitta nigra 6 Common Loon - Gavia immer 1 Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus X Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias 1 Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus 7 Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii 4 Merlin - Falco columbarius 2 Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus 1 Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus 6 Laughing Gull - Leucophaeus atricilla X Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis X Herring Gull - Larus argentatus X Herring Gull (American) - Larus argentatus smithsonianus X Great Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus X Royal Tern - Thalasseus maximus 3 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia X Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura X Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius 1 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus 100 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) - Colaptes auratus [auratus Group] 100 Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe 5 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 6 Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor 6 Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis 2 Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula 3 Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus 3 American Robin - Turdus migratorius 40 Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 1 Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos 10 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 600 American Pipit - Anthus rubescens 1 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 20 Yellow-rumped Warbler - Dendroica coronata 400 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - Dendroica coronata coronata 400 Palm Warbler - Dendroica palmarum 2 Palm Warbler (Western) - Dendroica palmarum palmarum 1 Palm Warbler (Yellow) - Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea 1 Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas 2 Yellow-breasted Chat - Icteria virens 1 Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 7 Field Sparrow - Spizella pusilla 2 Vesper Sparrow - Pooecetes gramineus 2 Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis 12 Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia 20 Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana 5 White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis 20 White-crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys 7 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis 10 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) - Junco hyemalis hyemalis/carolinensis 10 Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 2 Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus 100 Rusty Blackbird - Euphagus carolinus 1 Purple Finch - Carpodacus purpureus 100 Pine Siskin - Spinus pinus 1 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis 30 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
