During a 3.5 hour visit to Connetquot River S.P. (Suffolk Co.) Sunday afternoon I tallied 50 species and observed several instances of breeding behavior, mostly by migrant passerines. The highlight of these was watching a pair of B&W Warblers feed a single fledged juvenile, each adult flying in with provisions a few times over several minutes. This was the first time I've seen this species engaged in raising young, and it was great to hear the juvenile's begging calls. Other nesting observations included watching a male Ovenbird sing with food in his bill (nice ventriloquism) before flying down to the forest floor, presumably to a nest with hungry young; a Great Crested Flycatcher in close proximity to a nest box, which it may have just exited; and hearing a Pied-billed Grebe call twice from Deep Water Pond just north of the fish hatchery. Given the date and the habitat, breeding by that species is a distinct possibility there.
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