A total of 22 Warbler species reported from Queens today. Forest Park led the way with 21. It just so happened that I along with a few others made a good decision to bird in Forest Park today and we enjoyed the influx of migrants that were in good numbers.
The day's highlights while birding with Patricia Lindsay, Rich Kelly, Mary Normaindy and at times with Karlo Mirth, Mike Feder and Danny Melore at Forest Park included: PALM WARBLER, CAPE MAY WARBLER, BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, WILSON's WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, WORM EATING WARBLER and CANADA WARBLER. Black-throated Blues and Northern Parulas were in good numbers with 40 and 50 recorded respectively for each species from birding throughout the park for over 8 hours. No doubt, there were more. Yellow-throated Vireo, Great Crested Flycatcher, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole, Wood Thrush and Veery were some of the other notable migrants. The feeding and singing while subsiding in the afternoon was still noticeable when I left the waterhole at Forest Park around 3:45 p.m. for Alley Pond Park. At Alley Pond, there were fewer birds...maybe due to the time of the day? However, a CAPE MAY WARBLER and later on with Jeff Ritter, a LINCOLN SPARROW made the trip worthwhile. Oakland Lake, much later was quiet but Jeff added Blue-winged Warbler to bring his personal warbler tally for the day to 20 species (take that Colleen and Bobby:) Good Birding Peeps! 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/ --
