[nysbirds-l] Bryant Park - American Woodcock
It’s a thing now. Like a wanted sign, a placard in the park promotes with photos finding two early Spring suspects - a Robin and a Woodcock. Even the security guard in the sentinel booth in the southwest corner will kindly provide you with his last sightings. I haven’t had much luck in the last few weeks - but I finally spotted a Woodcock this evening in the usual spot, the northwest corner, busily poking the ground for earthworms. Unfortunately, the bee hives were temporarily removed for refurbishing so it may be just a matter of time before they’re returned and that corner disturbed again. The Song Sparrow population has slowly increased, and with the main lawn sodded and cordoned, one can watch them sweep across the area. I counted at least a dozen. Also, 3-4 Swamp Sparrows, 2 Juncos, 1 American Robin, 1 European Starling, and 1 Hermit Thrush (in the garden house in the southeast corner). Meanwhile, the White-throated Sparrow population is declining to just a half dozen. No warblers yet. Happy Spring Birding, Alan Drogin -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Bryant Park - American Woodcock
It’s a thing now. Like a wanted sign, a placard in the park promotes with photos finding two early Spring suspects - a Robin and a Woodcock. Even the security guard in the sentinel booth in the southwest corner will kindly provide you with his last sightings. I haven’t had much luck in the last few weeks - but I finally spotted a Woodcock this evening in the usual spot, the northwest corner, busily poking the ground for earthworms. Unfortunately, the bee hives were temporarily removed for refurbishing so it may be just a matter of time before they’re returned and that corner disturbed again. The Song Sparrow population has slowly increased, and with the main lawn sodded and cordoned, one can watch them sweep across the area. I counted at least a dozen. Also, 3-4 Swamp Sparrows, 2 Juncos, 1 American Robin, 1 European Starling, and 1 Hermit Thrush (in the garden house in the southeast corner). Meanwhile, the White-throated Sparrow population is declining to just a half dozen. No warblers yet. Happy Spring Birding, Alan Drogin -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Bryant Park - American Woodcock
Last year a Lincoln Sparrow overwintered and we had a major irruption of American Woodcocks following the snow storm of March 14th 2017 and the fellows kept showing up into the Christmas Bird Count. Last week an errant lone cluster of daffodils bloomed by the central western entrance while the rest of the bulbs were just pushing inches out of the ground, and a small wire fence was built earlier this week to protect the first bloom of blue crocuses just behind the ice rink restaurant. Still, other than the slight increase in European Starlings, there has not been much to report, typically, since the Christmas “Shoppes” of 2017 were taken down. So it with pleasure (but also stormy trepidation) to report that harbinger of Spring, the American Woodcock, has shown up today in Bryant Park in the northwest corner by the dormant beehives, quite actively doing its drunken forward-back waddle as no one is currently skating in this messy Nor’easter. Happy City Birding, Alan Drogin Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Bryant Park - American Woodcock
Last year a Lincoln Sparrow overwintered and we had a major irruption of American Woodcocks following the snow storm of March 14th 2017 and the fellows kept showing up into the Christmas Bird Count. Last week an errant lone cluster of daffodils bloomed by the central western entrance while the rest of the bulbs were just pushing inches out of the ground, and a small wire fence was built earlier this week to protect the first bloom of blue crocuses just behind the ice rink restaurant. Still, other than the slight increase in European Starlings, there has not been much to report, typically, since the Christmas “Shoppes” of 2017 were taken down. So it with pleasure (but also stormy trepidation) to report that harbinger of Spring, the American Woodcock, has shown up today in Bryant Park in the northwest corner by the dormant beehives, quite actively doing its drunken forward-back waddle as no one is currently skating in this messy Nor’easter. Happy City Birding, Alan Drogin Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
