Stops at Floyd Bennett Field and Plumb Beach this morning turned up a few migrants as well as some lingering species.
Floyd highlights: 2 Pine Warblers 6 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Ring-necked Pheasant 37 Horned Grebe (some in alternate plumage) 2 Great Cormorant 2 Eastern Phoebe 4 Common Goldeneye 1 American Oystercatcher 2 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Killdeer 1 Eastern Bluebird 9 Horned Lark 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Merlin 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Plumb highlights: 1 American Wigeon 110 Greater Scaup 1 Hooded Merganser 2 Red-throated Loon 11 American Oystercatcher 4 Purple Sandpiper 8 Eastern Phoebe (many in matted down marsh feeding on or just barely off the ground). 1 Tree Swallow 26 American Tree Sparrow (most singing. One individual was incorporating a Black-throated Green song into his own). 1 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Boat-tailed Grackle Cheers, Sean Sime Brooklyn, 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/ --
