During an otherwise slow day of birding around the barrier beaches yesterday, Joan Quinlan called to report a Grasshopper Sparrow that she and Gerta Fritz had observed from the southeast corner of the boardwalk at the Nature Center at Jones Beach West End around noon. Shai and I and others looked for it extensively for the next hour but had no luck, though it might well still be present in the extensive dune system there. We would be interested in any further reports.
Among other birds seen at Jones Beach were two Red Knots resting with Black-bellied Plovers in the dunes south of the Nature Center and small numbers of Tree Swallows in the air. Later in the afternoon, at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in East Islip, we found three Golden-crowned Kinglets in the pines, and Dark-eyed Juncos were singing from the shrubs near the mansion.
Patricia Lindsay Bay Shore, NY -- 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/ --
