Spent Wednesday morning through early afternoon and 3 hours Thursday morning birding in Brooklyn and Big Egg Marsh in Queens (where I ran into Eric Miller).
Few highlights were: 5/28 Calvert Vaux Park (Drier-Offermann) 1 Mourning Warbler (seen singing) Coney Island 37th Street Jetty 2 Black Scoters (females close flybys) ~ 140 Common Tern feeding close to shore Plum Beach 1 Clapper Rail 79 Semipalmated SP 4 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Short- Billed Dowitcher Floyd Bennett: 1 Alder Flycatcher (seen and heard singing - recorded)- Camp Tammarack 1 YB Cuckoo Big Egg Marsh: 2250 Semipalmated SP (SESA) 13 Dunlin 1 American Golden Plover The SESA were all in one tight group on shore at the base of the Cross Bay Bridge. I assume the AMGP is the one reported last week but it has come into even better plumage with extensive black reaching into and including the vent. I actually only caught it flying but the svelte darkish body with golden flecks on back with no black armpits or white stripe on side and the extensive black underneath were enough for me. If anyone cares to hear the Alder call I can e-mail it privately. I can't figure out how to link to an iPhone audio file. 5/29 Prospect Park 1 Alder Flycatcher (singing Lookout Hill) 1 Acadian Flycatcher (Quaker Ridge) 1 female Blackburnian Regards, Shane Blodgett Brooklyn NY Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
