New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Saturday, December 9, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Snow made viewing conditions difficult, but we found 5 Pine Warblers, a male Rusty Blackbird and the continuing Least Flycatcher. Canada Goose - low flyover of around 20 Mourning Dove - 30 to 40 Herring Gull - flyover Great Blue Heron - Twin Lakes (Richard Aracil) Red-tailed Hawk - 1 or 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Least Flycatcher - photographed at 8:42am in Chinese Prickly Ash high path along Native Plant Garden (Deb) Blue Jay - at least 6 Black-capped Chickadee - at least 4 Tufted Titmouse - 2 (Enrico Leonardi visiting from Indonesia) White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1 heard only) (Andrea Hessel) Kinglet species - 2 in forest one of them flicking wings like Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Matthieu Benoit) American Robin - flock of 16 (Andrea Hessel) House Finch - 2 (Enrico Leonardi) American Goldfinch - around 20 Fox Sparrow - 4 Forest (Matthieu Benoit & Richard Aracil) Song Sparrow - Native Plant Garden Swamp Sparrow - 2 Swale (a.k.a. Mitsubishi Wetlands) White-throated Sparrow - 50+ Dark-eyed Junco - 20-25 Rusty Blackbird - male at the Swale Pine Warbler - 5 in pines above Gingerbread Cafe Northern Cardinal - several Richard Aracil reported an Orange-crowned Warbler after lunch @AracilRichard on Bronx Bird Alert @BirdBronx. At around 8am Bob spotted a Peregrine Falcon chasing a Merlin on Bronxdale Avenue. The Peregrine then perched on a telephone pole at Morris Park & Bronxdale Avenues. This was followed by a fly by Cooper's Hawk. Follow us on twitter @BirdingBobNYC and @DAllenNYC Deb Allen www.birdingbob.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
