Woke this morning to what seemed like a crisp Fall day and a quick look in the yard revealed that the birds seemed to think so too. The yard was hopping with birds and, while many were members the local Titmouse/Chickadee mixed flock, or other local breeders, there were some migrants in the mix too.
Highlight for me was a close, eye-level, male TENNESSEE WARBLER in the flower garden along with Magnolia Warbler, Yellow Warbler, 2 Black-and-White Warblers, an American Redstart, and 5 Pine Warblers. Other residents included a SUMMER TANAGER (YOY bird - notably *not* calling), a Scarlet Tanager, 5 Baltimore Orioles, 2 Eastern Wood Pewees, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 4 woodpecker species, and 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds battling for the feeders. I'd estimate that there were over 75 individual birds of 29 species in the garden over the course of the two hours between 7am and 9am - and the seed feeders aren't even up yet. Thinking there might be some sort of major fallout I zipped over to Montauk Point at around 9:00am where everything unfortunately was pretty quiet. I did add Common Yellowthroat and Veery for the day, along with a Solitary Sandpiper at Deep Hollow and a Turkey Vulture at West Lake. Otherwise not much of note. Changing topics - our resident Screech Owls have also been extremely vocal of late, often calling before dark. Seems to be an August event most years. -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
