At approx. 10:30AM this morning I briefly observed a Northern Shrike perched up on a Red Cedar tree on the north side of the Ocean Parkway west of the entrance to the Cedar Beach Marina. The bird dropped down below the shrub line and was not seen again. My first Common Goldeneye of the fall, a female, was at Gilgo Marina. On the home front, we have had our second Orange-crowned Warbler in the yard this fall, a drab bird observed this morning. A week and half earlier we had a colorful individual in our backyard. These observations are notable in that, in the thirty-seven years we have lived in our home, we have never seen an OCW in our yard. This is turning out to be an interesting late fall migration.
Ken Feustel -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
