After seeing Andrew Baksh’s and Tim Healy’s reports on Breezy Pt./Ft. Tilden and Jones Beach respectively, I though to add my observations from Robert Moses State Park. I birded at the park from 7:00AM to 10:00AM. The morning blackbird/goldfinch flight tapered off after 10:00AM with small intermittent groups of birds continuing to pass down the beach. It should be noted that only 2 hours was spent actively counting birds as they passed by. The rest of the time was searching the brush for vagrants. The numbers:
Wood Duck - 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 Cooper’s Hawk - 1 Am Kestrel - 1 Merlin - 3 Peregrine Falcon - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker -3 American Robin - 130 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Cedar Waxwing - 22 Am Pipit - 9 Yellow-rumped Warbler-190 American Goldfinch - 185 House Finch- 16 Purple Finch - 19 Pine Siskin - 4 Red-winged Blackbird - 2,250 Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 Common Grackle - 255 (undercount) Rusty Blackbird - 3 (probably many missed as the blackbird flocks flew by) Also a good day for butterflies, including Cabbage and Checkered Whites (Zach’s Bay), American Lady, Orange Sulphur, and Monarch. -- 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/ --
