After seeing yesterday’s bird list, my wife wanted to bird the park this morning to celebrate Mother’s Day. We had a wonderful morning, 2.5 hours at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx.
After touring the park twice, besides yesterday’s group I led, I met only two other birders! Just to let the birding community know that there are birds here and that the woods here can be challenging and a lot wilder than other parks but without the noise and hustle. Some highlights: Blackburnian Blackpoll BT Blue BT Green Canada Nashville Magnolia Redstart Chestnut-sided Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Ovenbird Parula B&W N Waterthrush Com Yellowthroat Scarlet Tanager Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole BH Vireo Warbling Vireo RE Vireo Tr Swallow Barn Swallow Least Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Eastern Woods PeeWee Empidonax, most likely a Willow Flycatcher Turkey Vulture RT Hawk Spotted Sandpiper Killdeer Chip Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow and the usual… Jack Rothman cityislandbirds.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/ --
