As Ken Feustel noted in his earlier post of today; birding this morning at Hempstead Lake Park was slow, but as it got warmer the birding picked up albeit the variety was slim. Species of note included both Ruby and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Brown Creeper and an *Orange-crowned Warbler* all observed by Joan Quinlan, Gurta Fritz, Bobby Kurtz and I.
Over at Jones Beach, Joan, Gurta and I found the Pine Warbler, that was seen and reported earlier in the day by Ken and Sue Feustel. Additional birds of note were 2 immature White-crowned Sparrows, a Field Sparrow (seen around the Coast Guard Station) and a plethora of Eastern Phoebes. I stopped counting after 30, but I'm confident that we had well over 50 Phoebes around the areas we covered. My last stop was at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where I noted a few new spring arrivals, Tricolored Heron (1), Little Blue Heron (1) and Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (2). All were seen in the marshes across from the West Pond Trail before bench 1. The North and South gardens had both Golden and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Good Spring Birding! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
