We had a nice assortment of sightings this morning on my NYC Audubon Bryant
Park walk (in spite of the park having ripped out much of its shrubbery and
other vegetation).
We were joined by Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik toting their latest and
greatest ATX modular spotted scope. Wow. If you
I first had an excellent morning in Prospect Park (FOY Blue-gray Gnatcatchers,
Wood Thrushes, Veery, Catbirds in seemingly every shrub and tree, at least six
Baltimore Orioles, a similar number of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Red-eyed,
Warbling, and Blue-headed Vireo, and 14 species of warbler: N
I don't remember seeing anyone mention this from the Peterson Warblers book:
"There are [...] exceptional midwinter records for Illinois (Chicago,
December to January) [...]."
Ben
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NYSbirds-L List Info:
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dge of that NY state CBC record?) The normal winter range
of Prothonotary Warbler is from Mexico into northern S. America, not
the USA.
Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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Begin forwarded message:
From: gabriel willow
Date: October 27, 2010 2:54:18 PM EDT
To: nysbirds-l@cornell.edu
On my final NYC Audubon Bryant Park walk of the season, we saw some nice birds.
It's getting harder and harder as the available birding areas shrink in the
already small park due to the rink construction.
There were many (20+) White-throated Sparrows mixing with the House Sparrows.
There was a
