A Queens County Bird Club walk at Alley Pond Park in Queens, led by Eric Miller turned out quite the crowd with somewhere around 24 folks in attendance. The huge crowd, no doubt attracted to the current Alley Pond Park star, a Yellow-throated Warbler that was found on Thursday by Bobby Kurtz. The YTWA did not disappoint and put in quite the show giving all those in attendance excellent looks.
In addition to the YTWA, other highlights included, several Rusty Blackbirds (conservative count was 8-9), Swamp Sparrow, Black-and-white Warbler, Great Horned Owl, many Pine and Palm Warblers, many Brown Creepers, 5 species of Woodpeckers, both Kinglets and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher that was seen by only a few. Despite the "good birding" that many referred to, I could not help but notice that the number of birds seemed to be down from Thursday when Pine Warblers seemed to be everywhere. On that day, we also had several Yellow-rumped Warblers, and a Louisiana Waterthrush, neither of which were seen today. A note on the Yellow-throated Warbler. Today, the bird was again heard singing by a few of us; the song varied between incomplete to complete, but it was softly sung and unless one was really attentively listening for the song, it could easily be missed. Hopefully the bird sticks around for more folks to see it, as today we witnessed many birders from across the boroughs show up in hopes of getting a look. Reporting for QCBC! Andrew Baksh Queens, NY www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
