Marine Nature Study Area, 29 March Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff ) went looking for early shorebirds this morning, but only found the pair of AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS that had been present for a while. Waders today included GREAT EGRET, GREAT BLUE HERON, BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON and a fos GLOSSY IBIS. The OSPREY pair are at the nest and a RED-TAIL HAWK was seen flying over the golf course.
The path at the SE corner of the pond produced the first SEASIDE SPARROW seen since before "Sandy" and a bit father north a CLAPPER RAIL ran across the path and into the marsh on our right and another called from the pond edge on our left. Sparrows included SONG, SAVANNAH and WHITE-THROAT. A NORTHERN FLICKER in the dunes was also a new migrant. Singing Red-wing Blackbirds were a nice touch to an early spring day. Sy -- 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/ --
