At Owl’s Head Park on the Narrows this morning the migrant showing was scanty, but included an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, adding to this spring’s unusual number of reports, as well as a group of three male INDIGO BUNTINGS.
On Saturday 4/28 at Calvert Vaux Park (Coney Island Creek, aka Dreier- Offerman Park) things were more active, highlighted by a female BLUE GROSBEAK, which, like the buntings, may be from the fallout associated with last week’s nor’easter. The park also featured at least three WILSON’S SNIPE among five shorebird species, and a singing WHITE-EYED VIREO. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn Dreier-Offerman Park, Kings, US-NY Apr 28, 2012 63 species Brant 150 Canada Goose 10 Mute Swan 2 Mallard 10 Red-throated Loon 2 Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 15 Great Egret 2 Snowy Egret 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 4 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 American Coot 1 Killdeer 6 American Oystercatcher 1 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Wilson's Snipe 3 Laughing Gull 80 Ring-billed Gull 40 Herring Gull 25 Great Black-backed Gull 10 Forster's Tern 2 Rock Pigeon 20 Mourning Dove 7 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Northern Flicker 10 White-eyed Vireo 1 (Singing, east corner.) Warbling Vireo 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 3 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 15 House Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin 35 Gray Catbird 4 Northern Mockingbird 4 European Starling 75 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 3 Yellow Warbler 5 Palm Warbler 4 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 35 Eastern Towhee 6 Chipping Sparrow 25 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 10 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 25 Northern Cardinal 3 Blue Grosbeak 1 (Female, east corner.) Red-winged Blackbird 35 Common Grackle 10 Brown-headed Cowbird 15 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 15 -- 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/ --
