I birded the north end of the park this morning, about 0700 to 0930, and had a good diversity of migrants. Migrant highlights were as follows and included 20 species of Warbler and 5 thrush species (including American Robin):
Least Flycatcher Great-crested Flycatcher Veery - very abundant Swainson's Thrush - as common if not more common than Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1 west of the block house Wood Thrush Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler - 1 foraging near the burn patch west of the block house Northern Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler - 1 at the ravine American Redstart Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler - 2 (possibly 3, but at least one male and one female) singing and showing nicely by the block house Blackburnian Wabler - just 1 heard only Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler (western) - 1 just east of the block house Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler - 1 by the block house Wilson's Warbler - 1 by the block house Scarlet Tanager Swamp Sparrow - 1 at the lock Baltimore Oriole Luke Musher New York, NY -- 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/ --
