Glen Island County Park, New Rochelle, Westchester Co. Google map link: http://goo.gl/maps/dRd9d <http://goo.gl/maps/dRd9d> offered some very enjoyable birding yesterday morning (12/30).
About a mile north of Pelham Bay, Glen Island is an open area with paved paths around the LI Sound shore well used by of walkers/runners. Has access in winter w/o county park fee collection. Don't see many eBird lists from there. Wonderful flight of brant there yesterday (850+ conservative count), captured on video here: http://vimeo.com/82994603 *Some other highlights* Gadwall 36 American Wigeon 8 Greater/Lesser Scaup 500+ Bufflehead 62 Red-breasted Merganser 44 Northern Gannet 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 2 (Both full adults, sitting close together in a tree on N side of Glen Island and N of GI Harbour Club. Viewed from New Rochelle's Neptune Park which is just outside Glen Island & here: http://goo.gl/maps/XzIGO) and Peregrine Falcon 1 http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/email?subID=S16127625 Anne Swaim Saw Mill River Audubon Chappaqua, NY -- 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/ --
