It started with the Aberrants. A Northern Waterthrush kept court by the garden shed in the southeast corner of Bryant Park from Monday until Wednesday when I last saw it circling frantically around the shed after a cat moved on in. Another aberrant, a dull-striped Ovenbird showed up Tuesday, chicken-walking among the late blooming begonias on the south side of the lawn. It was joined by a Commoner, my first White-throated Sparrow of the season. When the rains took a break just before nightfall, there was a flurry of half a dozen warblers high in the London Planes - it was too leafy and dark to identify much except for the flash of racing stripes of the Black & White Warbler. With the midweek shift to colder dryer weather, things have quieted a little except for a few more Black & Whites and today a couple of Redstarts.
Happy Birding, Alan Drogin -- 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/ --
