Kestrels have returned to the posts on the landfill at Croton Point (I saw three this a.m.) - seems early, since as far as I know they do not breed in Westchester County. Also the Purple Martin colony has done pretty well; many adults and young birds scouring the landfill this am. It does appear grasshopper sparrow has bred and likely bobolink. No rarities yet this summer in the park, although Caspian Tern (2) was seen at the train station yesterday for several hours until tide turned; a short tome visit from a yellow crowned night heron earlier this summer is pretty un-common on this side of the County. Caspian is marked rare on e-bird but they are a regular visitor often both spring and fall migration. We are mid-July so not sure what this visit was.
On a lepidopterist note, I "helped" out (using that word generously) on the Northern Westchester Butterfly County yesterday and in the Teatown area we had 23 species (list below), although a few more skipper photos are being circulated for ID. Skippers, seriously, ... if you thought fall warblers are tough to ID. Good socially distanced birding, L. Trachtenberg Ossining Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Black Swallowtail Spicebush Swallowtail Cabbage White Clouded Sulphur Gray Hairstreak Eastern Tailed Blue Great Spangled Fritillary Pearl Crescent Red Admiral Red-spotted Purple Monarch Appalachian Brown Little Wood Satyr SKIPPERS Silver Spotted Wild Indigo Duskywing Northern Broken Dash Black dash Little Glassywing Dun Delaware Mulberry wing Broadwing Lawrence B. Trachtenberg | trachtenb...@amsllp.com<mailto:trachtenb...@amsllp.com> Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP 12 E. 49th Street, New York, New York 10017 | T: 212.521.3511 | F: 212.838.5505 NOTICE: This e-mail is intended only for the named recipient(s). It contains confidential, privileged and/or attorney work product information. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not disseminate, distribute or copy it or any attachments. Should you have erroneously received this e-mail, please notify the sender by replying to it or calling the phone number above and please delete the e-mail and any attachments from your system. Thank you! -- 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/ --