A rather hurried early morning walk through Willowbrook Park with Ashley Ozelski was very productive, especially in terms of my own narrowly defined target species: Alder Flycatcher, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Tennessee Warbler, and Mourning Warbler. Several late-spring migrants were notably numerous, especially given the abbreviated effort: Blackpoll and Canada Warblers, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, Red-eyed Vireo, and Swainson's Thrush.
A female Summer Tanager was bonus. On a related note, I had a singing male Summer Tanager yesterday morning at Sunken Meadow SP in northwestern Suffolk County, LI, which Patricia Lindsay reports was still present this morning. In the "I can't believe this is how I go birding" category, single Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Forster's Tern loped in front of my car near the Mill Basin drawbridge, Brooklyn, at 06:14.... Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________ CSI Represents NY in Nationwide State Rankings. Learn more>>><http://csitoday.com/2014/04/csi-represents-ny-in-nationwide-state-rankings/> -- 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/ --
