Jones Beach West End 16 Oct Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) went looking in the previously seen LARK SPARROW locations without luck but finally came across it at the turnaround. It appeared on the lawn on both sides of the road.adjacent to the shrubbery to which it retreated when cars drove by. It was feeding with other sparrows and all disappeared for a while after a Sharp-shinned hawk passed over.
Today was a fair flight day with a dozen or more MERLIN and SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS coming through. A male RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was among the migrating Flickers. Other birds:-- a number of EASTERN PHOEBE, lots of TREE SWALLOW, a CEDAR WAXWING flock, both KINGLETS, numerous YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, 6 additional SPARROW species and AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. Sy -- 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/ --
