As noted by Arie, the Mountain Bluebird was at the end of the inlet side road this morning. Here there is a white sign and a juniper to the left of it (looking westward). The bluebird frequented these two spots, in fabulous lighting during the morning. Another landing spot used a few times was a small dune- more of a mound, actually - with small bushes on it. This is looking toward the inlet. Altogether, I would say the bluebird was in sight and close 75% of the 2+ hours I was there. Even after disappearing to the west, it usually came back within 10 minutes. A curious thing was that it was being pestered by Yellow-rumped Warblers, which appeared to occasionally prompt it to move. Also making a couple of appearances in the said juniper was a Baltimore Oriole, presumably the one recorded on the Captree count.
Pictures for those interested can be found at my web site http://stevewalternature.com/ (click the Birds tab and click Recent Work). Steve Walter Bayside, NY -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
