Even though it felt like a November Day at NYBG yesterday, the sight of the spring warblers kept us warm!
Highlights include: A male Prothonotary Warbler on Twin Lakes. The warbler has been at the lakes since Thursday. It puts on a great show, flying from one side of the lake to the other - looking for insects along the muddy banks. Also on Twin Lakes, a great egret and wood ducks. The owlets were not visible in their cavity and even though we could not locate them anywhere - it was confirmed there were three babies by Lenny Abrahms who had a photograph of three fuzzy heads in the cavity. The female owl was out of the cavity and sitting on a branch about 35 feet away. The babies had been flapping their wings all week long and may have fledged the nest and are somewhere in the forest. Also observed: Pine Warbler-6 Palm Warbler -8 Yellow rumped Warbler-4 Ruby crowned kinglet-6 Golden Crowned kinglet-3 Phoebe-1 Yellow bellied sapsucker-2 Red bellied woodpecker-3 Downy woodpecker-2 Hairy Woodpecker-1 Red winged blackbirds-14 Grackles-many Chickadees-6 Tufted Titmouse-2 Brown creeper-1 House Wren-1 Goldfinch-1 House finch-3 Mallards-4 C. Geese- 14 White throated sparrow-6 Song sparrow-4 Savannah sparrow-1 American Robin- many Hermit Thrush-1 Red tailed hawk-3 Cardinals-6 Mockingbird-1 Blue Jay-3 Mourning Doves-3 Good birding, Debbie Becker -- 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/ --
