In addition to the female Yellow-headed Blackbird feeding with Red-wings at the hawk watch stand, there is a Lincoln's Sparrow along the boardwalk with a flick of warblers and sparrows.
Patrick F. Palladino On Sep 15, 2013, at 1:01 AM, "Andrew Baksh" <birdingd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Certainly not as "birdy" as the reports from other sites suggested but there > were birds in the sites mentioned in the SUBJECT line. However, one had to > cover a lot of ground to get them. I wondered if the winds had anything to > do with what was observed since it was windy at both Fort Tilden and RIIS > park for most of the morning. > > Birding with Isaac Grant for some time at Fort Tilden, RIIS Park and finally > along archery road at Floyd Bennett Field. Our overall warbler tally for the > day was 14 with ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER being the highlight in that group, > seen only by Isaac before I ran into him at Fort Tilden. > > A second pass for Isaac and first for me near the golf course at RIIS Park > resulted in us finding a DICKCISSEL near the south west corner of the fence > line of the golf course. Earlier, we also had > LINCOLN SPARROW in a scrubby area at the beginning of the trail as you made > your west towards the Hawk Watch platform at Fort Tilden. > > Later on at Floyd Bennett Field, in another scrubby area along Archery Road > we had very nice looks at a PHILADELPHIA VIREO. > > While we did have multiples of warblers species, the numbers were nothing > like those we were picking up on the wire being reported from other city > parks where the birds appeared to be more concentrated. Our only significant > multiple worth mentioning is Common Yellowthroat with a conservative count of > 110 when combining all three sites. > > As far as hawk flights, we did have 3 American Kestrels, 1 Merlin and 1 > Osprey at Fort Tilden and 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk at Floyd Bennett Field. Other > flight movements noted included good numbers of Tree Swallows, Barn Swallows, > Cedar Waxwings and a few Bobolinks, most seen at Fort Tilden. > > "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand > like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson > > Andrew Baksh > Queens, NY > www.birdingdude.blogspot.com > > Sent from my iPad > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/ --
