There was a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW today (5/16) at Calvert Vaux Park, in the same vicinity as a male BLUE GROSBEAK. The birds were on either side of the channel along the north edge of the park where there’s a crossover to an unkempt field that’s also accessible via Bay 44th St (note that a pair of Indigo Buntings was in the same area.) Other notables included LINCOLN’S SPARROW and singing BOBOLINKS, as well as arriving Willow Flycatchers, hopefully here to nest.
On Saturday there was good movement through Owl’s Head Park, with TENNESSE, CAPE MAY and BAY-BREASTED among 14 warbler species and other seasonal songbirds. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn, NY Location: Calvert Vaux Park AKA Dreier-Offerman Park Observation date: 5/16/10 Number of species: 71 Brant 150 Canada Goose 20 Mute Swan 6 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 20 Common Loon 6 (Flyovers.) Double-crested Cormorant 50 Great Egret 3 Snowy Egret 1 Green Heron 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 Semipalmated Plover 26 Killdeer 4 American Oystercatcher 1 Spotted Sandpiper 10 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 3 Laughing Gull 30 Ring-billed Gull 50 Herring Gull (American) 25 Great Black-backed Gull 15 Common Tern 6 Rock Pigeon 30 Mourning Dove 10 Monk Parakeet 2 Chimney Swift 10 Belted Kingfisher 1 Willow Flycatcher 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 2 Warbling Vireo 5 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 3 Fish Crow 1 Tree Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 25 Carolina Wren 3 American Robin 20 Gray Catbird 15 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 75 Northern Parula 4 Yellow Warbler 8 Magnolia Warbler 5 Black-throated Blue Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 3 Blackpoll Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 1 American Redstart 3 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 12 Wilson's Warbler 1 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 (Moving back-and-forth across the channel, perching, then back to the north field where seen again later up and down among the weed stalks. Less buffy than fall birds, distinct facial pattern with mustache stripe and clear lores; gray nape contrasting with sandy brown back and rump; pale stripe through crown; clear breast.) Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 8 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 5 Blue Grosbeak 1 (Adult male, singing at edge of north field along the channel mouth near the crossing point.) Indigo Bunting 2 (Male and female on either side of the north channel.) Bobolink 7 (At least 4 males and 3 females, scattered; three singing including one in transitional plumage.) Red-winged Blackbird 40 Common Grackle 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 3 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow 5 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
