We recorded fifty-four species of birds during a morning of birding at SMSP, including a good variety of waterfowl. Species of note included a Pine Warbler and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (likely overwintering birds). The large group of Great Egrets (as many as eighteen) present in the Park over the winter has apparently dispersed. We have not seen any egrets in our last three visits, although the egrets have a habit of disappearing for some period of time and then reappearing, perhaps feeding in the Nissequogue River to the east of the park. A Great Egret put in a brief appearance on the pond in our backyard on the south shore on March 2, beating the previous early date of March 20. We observed two Yellow-rumped Warblers on the trail on the south side of Sunken Meadow Creek but no Audubon's.
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