[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens Orange Crowneds, Nashville, and Lincoln

Jeff Ritter and I birded Kissena this cold but sunny morning to scope it out for next week's Queens CBC.  It was relatively quiet but we saw some nice birds.  At Kissena proper we started by flushing a couple of great horned owls at an undisclosed location. We  found a winter wren kip, kipping a

[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens

Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) parked down the street from the Kissena Community Garden, entered the park and birded the edge of the field where we found a YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, a flock of CEDAR WAXWINGS and several HERMIT THRUSHES among other birds. We moved into the park and found it quite o

[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park Queens

Good birds near velodrome. Vesper sparrow around ballfield 6 west of drone. Orange crowned sparrow in orchard east of it. Good birding Peter Sent from who knows where -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.

[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens

Rich Kelly and I saw a Yellow-billed Cuckoo at the Kissena Park velodrome. He saw it twice, once a few minutes before I saw it in the north section of the velodrome. The last time was about three minutes after I saw it and it flew off towards the playground area east of the velodrome parking l

[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park Queens Notable Birds...

A 1st winter *BLUE GROSBEAK* found on Sunday, continued today near a weedy area just off the wood chip path that leads towards Flushing Hospital. The bird was favoring the seeds of what appeared to be Lambs Quarters near a huge patch of Mugwort. Near that same area, I observed and photographed an

[nysbirds-l] Kissena park, Queens

Birded the area late in the morning and was later joined by Eric and Jeff,  We had a Nashville Warbler at the Corridor and Bay-breasted Warbler at the park Later Eric and I found a Cape-May warbler on a spruce near the lake where we refound the Red-breasted Nuthatch I had on Thursday.    Warbler a

[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens NY, birds yes

The day continued to be good.  I got out at around 4 to Kissena Park where I tallied 12 species of warbler, and a large number of the common warblers BT Blue BT green Redstart Blackpoll Yellow  Yellow-rumped Black-and-white 1 Ovenbird 1 Priarie 1 Worm-eating 1 Magnolia Also, Woodthrush are finall

[nysbirds-l] Kissena park, Queens NY

The warbler and other migrants activity at Kissena park has been slowly increasing over the last week. Today's sightings include  Prairie Warbler (second one for the day!)  http://www.flickr.com/photos/14667149@N00/8696754802/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/14667149@N00/8696754756/ Northern Parula

[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens - September 25

This is a late follow-up on Donna Schulman's report from yesterday to provide a more complete tally of the excellent birding at Kissena Park yesterday. As good as Saturday's birding was, yesterday was better. The numbers of flycatchers particularly Eastern Phoebes was impressive. A total o

[nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens, Sept. 25th, continues to be excellent birding

lls, NY + North Brunswick, NJ queensgir...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/queensgirl/ <http://www.flickr.com/photos/queensgirl>* -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeffrey Ritter Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:28 PM Subject: [nysbirds-l] Kissena Park, Queens - 17 Warbler species