Birding in the Kissena Park corridor area continues to be excellent. Peter Reisfeld found a LARK SPARROW (mediocre photo on my Flickr site), and Eric Miller found an immature MOURNING WARBLER and a CONNECTICUT WARBLER. Other "good" birds included both CUCKOOS, BLUE GROSBEAK, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW. The birding group also included Jeff Ritter, Bobby and Colleeen, and myself.
I left Kissena at 11am, so I'm sure more great birds have been found since then. Jeff will have a full report later today. I wanted to get the word out. Donna *Donna L. Schulman Forest Hills, NY + North Brunswick, NJ queensgir...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/queensgirl/ <http://www.flickr.com/photos/queensgirl>* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Ritter <jritt...@verizon.net> Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:28 PM Subject: [nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens - 17 Warbler species including Connecticut and more To: New York Bird List <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> I birded Kissena Park twice today, this morning from 9:30 to 11:00 by myself and this afternoon from 3:30 to 6:45 with Eric Miller. There were not great numbers today, not a surprise given the summery weather. What was a surprise was the diversity and number of notable species. It turned out to be a memorable day of birding. Except for the Philadelphia Vireos which I found this morning, the most notable species of the day were found by Eric this afternoon. Blackpoll Warbler (15 or more scattered around the park) Blue-winged Warbler (1 high in the trees southeast of the east orchard) Black-throated Green Warbler (2) Pine Warbler (1 dull female) Northern Waterthrush (2) Wilson’s Warbler (1 at inflow into swampy area) Yellow Warbler (1 or 2 near inflow into swampy area) Northern Parula (2) Tennessee Warbler (1) Nashville Warbler (3-4) Magnolia Warbler (1) Yellow-rumped Warbler (1) Palm Warbler (5-6) Black and White Warbler (2) American Redstart (15 or so) Common Yellowthroat (15+) CONNECTICUT WARBLER (1 in Kissena corridor along north-south path east of the community garden) Red-eyed Vireo (3-4) PHILADELPHIA VIREO (2 near path that connects lake area with orchard east of the Velodrome) Song Sparrow (too many to count) CLAY-COLORED SPARROW (near outfield fence of ball field near corner of Kissena & Booth Memorial) Savannah Sparrow (2 in Kissena corridor) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1) BLUE GROSBEAK (1) Indigo Bunting (1 or 2) Bobolink (2 in Kissena corridor) Ruby-throated Hummingbird (1) Chimney Swift (flock of 40-50 at the lake) Empid. Fycatcher Eastern Phoebe (3) Brown Thrasher (3) Ring-necked Pheasant (1) Eastern Towhee (1) House Wren (4) Jeff Ritter Little Neck, NY -- *NYSbirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> *Archives:* The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> *Please submit your observations to **eBird*<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> *!* -- -- 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/ --
