Beautiful day at NYBG! The 31 birders on my Saturday morning bird walk observed
the following birds:
Purple finch - 2 FOS
Chipping sparrow-10
White crowned sparrow-4
Song sparrow-1
Clay colored sparrow-1
Ruby crowned Kinglet-1
Eastern phoebe-4
Eastern wood peewee-2
Northern waterthrush-1
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There were a pair of Horned Larks on the southeast corner of the Van Courtland
Park Parade Grounds, which were well seen by all of the birders in attendance
of the NYC Audubon bird walk that I led this morning. Other highlights from
today include another early migrant, American Pipit, which I di
Date: Sept. 28, 2013
The BBG (Brooklyn Botanic Garden) birding class recorded 39 species while
at a very birdie Conference House park in the very southern tip of Staten
Island. The highlights were 10 warbler species (Yellow, Magnolia,
Blackburnian, Pine, Palm, B&W, Redstart, Cape May, N.Wat
