An UPLAND SANDPIPER was at Calvert Vaux Park (Coney Island Creek, Brooklyn) this morning, perhaps, though not necessarily, the same bird seen on 4/17. With good movement going on and appropriate habitat a second individual doesn’t seem too unlikely. Today it was joined on the fenced soccer fields by a group of BOBOLINKS before the soccer players arrived around 9:30 AM; once again, I did not relocate the bird.
After a rainy visit last week it was good to see many FoS species, including several that have nested at the park in recent years such as Brown Thrasher, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat and Indigo Bunting. Good birding, Alex Wilson Brooklyn, NY Location: Dreier-Offerman Park Observation date: 5/1/10 Number of species: 68 Brant 125 Canada Goose 20 Mute Swan 3 Mallard 15 Bufflehead 1 Red-breasted Merganser 3 Common Loon 2 Double-crested Cormorant 10 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 5 American Kestrel 1 Killdeer 4 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 2 (With Yellowlegs at puddle near parking lot entry.) Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Upland Sandpiper 1 (On the fenced soccer fields west of the parking lot. Photographed.) Laughing Gull 60 Ring-billed Gull 75 Herring Gull (American) 35 Great Black-backed Gull 25 Common Tern 2 Rock Pigeon 30 Mourning Dove 10 Chimney Swift 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 12 Eastern Phoebe 1 Eastern Kingbird 5 White-eyed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 3 American Crow 5 Fish Crow 2 crow sp. 5 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 7 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 American Robin 20 Gray Catbird 10 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 100 Nashville Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 3 Prairie Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Northern Waterthrush 1 Common Yellowthroat 3 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 10 Song Sparrow 10 Swamp Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 4 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 7 (3 singing along edge of west field; also on fenced soccer fields.) Red-winged Blackbird 25 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 10 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 10 House Sparrow 10 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
