Hi Shai: Bearberry does that to a lot of birds..... One of the carpeting plants in the 50,000 acre LI pine barrens preserve.....
John > On March 27, 2020 at 5:43 PM Shaibal Mitra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bob's and Sarah's report clearly indicates a good flight overnight. Patricia > Lindsay and I were fortunate to be able to observe some of this flight > further east on the barrier beach of southwestern Suffolk County. > Particularly abundant here were Slate-colored Juncos, Song Sparrows, > Golden-crowned Kinglets, and Yellow-shafted Flickers; also included were two > each of Phoebe, Brown Creeper, and Field Sparrow, and best of all was a > Vesper Sparrow (singing!) from a little patch of Arctostaphylos moorland on > Captree Island (nice looking spot, but not a chance of local breeding). > > We walked around a little between Robert Moses SP golf course and Democrat > Point; it was a good day because we learned a little bit more about our > patch, watching how westward-moving Flickers, Golden-crowned Kinglets, and > Myrtle Warblers behave at the puckerbrush-moorland ecotone. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] on behalf of Robert Paxton > [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 5:28 PM > To: NYSBIRDS > Subject: [nysbirds-l] spring arrivals: Eastern Phoebe > > We found eleven Eastern Phoebes in about a half-mile (120th street to 110th > street) at the north end of Riverside Park, Manhattan, in about an hour (4 > to 5 p.m). We found none in a similar walk yesterday. No other spring > migrants observed today. > Bob Paxton and Sarah Plimpton > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > Archives: > The Mail > Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> > Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! > -- > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
