Twenty-Seven birders joined the Saturday morning bird walk at NYBG. Highlights include Red winged blackbirds and Rusty blackbirds.
Red tailed hawk -2 Fox sparrow-3 One Fox Sparrow was singing in the Swale. Song sparrow-2 White throated sparrow-3 House sparrow-8 Chickadee-20+ Tufted titmouse-10+ Blue jay-6 Northern Cardinal-4 Northern Mockingbird-1 Mourning Dove-3 Red bellied woodpecker -1 Downy Woodpecker -2 Yellow bellied Sapsucker -2 Mallard-14 Hooded Merganser-2 Canada Geese-2 American Goldfinch-6 Dark eyed Junco-1 Grackle-4 Red winged blackbirds-4 Rusty blackbirds-4 The beavers are working on a rather large tree on the southern most part of the Bronx River before it flows into the Bronx Zoo. Quite a sight! It looks like this tree will fall across the river -perhaps creating a dam. 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/ --
