A whirlwind bit of birding this morning that included a brief stop on the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay did not produce many birds.
Getting my shorebird fix just after dawn on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay, I headed out to bird Fort Tilden and Jacob RIIS Park. After an uneventful seawatching, I turned my attention to looking for land birds. A bit of "ground and pound" for about 5 hours, resulted in a paltry number of 13 species of warblers. The highlights were a stunning adult Red-headed Woodpecker seen near the RIIS parking lot adjacent to the golf course. Later in my second round at Fort Tilden, I came upon a very bright Cape May Warbler that was a delight to observe. If you missed the spectacular showing of Western Sandpipers and White-rumped Sandpipers over the past few weeks at Jamaica Bay, you may have to wait until next year. Since last weekend, the number of shorebirds on the pond have dropped significantly and only a handful of peeps have been around over the past few days. Earlier in the week, a Philadelphia Vireo and Lincoln Sparrow were the only notable birds from a few hours at Kissena Park and Kissena Corridor respectively. Cheers, Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.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/ --
