Beautiful day for the Saturday morning bird walk. Highlights include: great horned owl, who was unfortunately being harassed by American Crows. A sight we haven't seen,in the Garden, for many years due to the decline of the crow population. Also observed red tailed hawks engaging in high diving mating rituals - a spectacular sight to behold. Wood ducks also performing the head bobbing mating dance. It was a great walk and 33 people observed the following: FOS Eastern Phoebe- 3 Red winged blackbirds-14 Hairy woodpecker-1 Downy woodpecker -2 Red bellied woodpecker -4 Yellow bellied sapsucker-1 Song sparrow-2 White throated sparrow-7 American Crow-5 Blue jays-5 American Robin-10 American goldfinch-11 Juncos-15 Chickadees-2 White breasted nuthatch-1 Red tailed hawks-4 Great horned owl-1 Cooper's Hawk-1 Boat tailed grackle-1 Grackles-3 Wood ducks-14 Mallards-25 Hybrid mallard-2 Farm duck-1 Canada geese-8
Also noted: Garter snakes and muskrats. FOS Cabbage butterfly -3 FOS - Mourning Cloak butterfly - 10 Good birding, Debbie Becker -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
