The Saturday morning walk started with the sighting of a Barred Owl flying out of a roost, Blue Jays in hot pursuit. While trying to relocate the owl we were alerted to the sounds of Red Crossbills in the pine area near the main entrance of the garden. Last week, we spotted White winged Crossbills a bit west of the main gate. Today, we spotted a chattering flock of about 16 male and female Red Crossbills feeding on pine cones, in the Japanese Black Pines,by the main gate. After spending time observing and photographing the Crossbills we decided to proceed to the crabapples hoping for Purple Finches or Pine Siskins. On the way, we spotted the Barred Owl being chased by a Cooper's Hawk. The owl flew into the Native Plant Garden where we were able to get splendid looks. We also observed Rusty Blackbirds, in the water, moving leaves around looking for food. Greg found a Pine Siskin in a Sweet Gum and there were female Purple Finches on the crabapples. It was a great day of birding at NYBG.
RED CROSSBILLS-16 BARRED OWL-1 PINE SISKIN-1 Rusty Blackbirds-5 Red winged Blackbirds-4 (immature M) Purple Finch-6 House Finch-9 American Goldfinch-7 Brown Creeper-1 House Sparrow-8 White throated Sparrow-6 Song Sparrow-2 Fox Sparrow-2 Red breasted Nuthatch-5 White breasted Nuthatch -2 Black capped Chickadee-4 Dark eyed Junco-2 Cooper's Hawk-1 Red tailed Hawk-2 Mourning Dove-4 Northern Cardinal-6 Blue Jay-8 Grackle-1 American Crow-1 Red bellied woodpecker -1 Downy woodpecker -1 American Robin-12 Mallard-8 Wild Turkey-2 Cedar waxwing-1 Hermit Thrush-1 Tufted Titmouse-8 Good Birding, Debbie Becker BirdingAroundNYC.com -- 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/ --
