Adding to John's and Mike's reports, we tallied 1884 Pine Siskins from 8:30-12:30, a little downstream from the hawkwatch.
Something that needs to be accounted for collectively by our community is the new status of Clay-colored Sparrow--noticeably rarer than Lark Sparrow when I started birding, but now on a par with Lincoln's Sparrow. There were three this weekend around the Fire Island Inlet, to go along with all the other singles, duos, and trios reported on LI today. How many were there in all?--it might have been a record. As Mike noted, a male Hooded Warbler was unusual this morning at Robert Moses SP, where rarity is a highly relative concept. Other contenders in this area this weekend included three Caspian Terns, three Royal Terns, 17 Forster's Terns, singles of both cuckoos, Red-headed Woodpecker, Lark Sparrow, Dickcissels, and Blue Grosbeaks. For purposes of callibration, Pat and I saw three Lincoln's Sparrows and seven Eastern White-crowned Sparrows--and one Red Bat! Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________ Washington Monthly<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/americas_bestbangforthebuck_co039461.php> magazine ranks the College of Staten Island as one of “America’s Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges” -- 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/ --
