I went birding at the North Fork Preserve this afternoon after 2 PM I did not find any ducks or wading birds at the much less Snipes at any of the ponds.( There are at least 6 vernal ponds in this new park) There is a pond I call it the Snipes pond, close to where you enter since there were 5 Wilson's Snipes there a couple of weeks ago (when there was no rain, and the pond was very low,) as well as Greater, Lesser yellowlegs sandpipers and green winged teal and mallard and black ducks. Now there are none of these since the pond is full of water. ( And maybe because more people are looking there) However, I took the occasion to drive all around the area to check out what was there. There were Yellow Warblers and Yellow Rump, and several other warblers, but they were very hard to see and identify because of the leaves. (I have to get better on ID by songs.) The good news is that as I was going through the fields ( and there are a lot of fields as well as deep thickets of woods and vernal ponds), I noted that there were an extraordinary number of Red-wing Black-birds in the fields. These fields were apparently farms that have been let to grow over. Looking at them I saw a field bird that looked like a Bobolink, but it flew before I could take a picture. I have not seen any Bobolinks on Long Island before. Later I went to Snipe's pond, and looking across the fields,sitting on top of a large tree was a black bird,singing like I never heard a red winged, starling,or grackle sing. I took a look in my binocks, and yes, it was a Bobolink!! I took some pictures using my "point and shot "camera if any one wants to see an amatuer picture. (Apparently we now have bobolinks again on Long Island!!) Andy Murphy ____________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: 5/10/2012 8:27:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: [nysbirds-l] North Fork Preserve
Bob Adamo encouraged me to get out today, and although he could not be with me because he is traveling out of town, I had the following species at North Fork Preserve: Cooper's Hawk Downy Woodpecker Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow House Wren Gray Catbird Yellow Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee Swamp Sparrow Baltimore Oriole Tom Moran Shore ham -- NYSbirds-L List Info: _Welcome and Basics_ (http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME) _Rules and Information_ (http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES) _Subscribe, Configuration and Leave_ (http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm) Archives: _The Mail Archive_ (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html) _Surfbirds_ (http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L) _BirdingOnThe.Net_ (http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html) Please submit your observations to _eBird_ (http://ebird.org/content/ebird/) ! -- -- 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/ --
