Plumb Beach & Floyd Bennett Field 24 Oct Joe Giunta & I (Sy Schiff) went to Plumb Beach and after a bit of trying brought up 3 NELSON'S SPARROWS. Otherwise the marsh was quiet except for a Great Egret, some Savannah Sparrows and a soaring Peregrine Falcon.
We stopped at Floyd Bennett Field on the way home and found a large group of sparrows in the field north of the Cricket Field. Among the half dozen species was a VESPER SPARROW. We watched an AMERICAN KESTREL using a sign along the runway as a perch, fly off, hover, dive and return to the sign to feast. It continued the routine while we watched; and it didn't miss once. Hopefully, my distance pictures will tell me what the prey was, most likely grasshoppers. Sy -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
