I had hoped to bird Hempstead Lake State Park this morning but arrived to a sign indicating the parking filed was full (despite the fact no one was in it!!!). So I headed around the corner to Nassau County's small Tanglewood Preserve, a decision that turned out to be a good one as it proved pretty productive, providing killer, close-up views of several warbler species as they actively fed in the underbrush and sub-canopy. Species seen include Chestnut-sided, Black-throated blue, Black-throated green, three Parula, all of which were feeding low along the stream, several Black-and-whites, numerous Yellow-rumped, a male and female Yellow warbler, and one Northern waterthrush. Vireos included one blue-headed and numerous warbling vireos, one of which got into quite an antagonistic battle with a pair of black-capped chickadees. Other species included numerous Baltimore orioles and one Orchard oriole, an Eastern kingbird, three swallow species coursing over the pond (Barn, Tree, and Northern rough-winged), what I assume was a mated pair of blue-gray gnatcatchers, numerous Robins, Cardinals, Common grackles, and Blue jays, one Ruby-crowned kinglet, Downy and Red-bellied woodpeckers, a flyover Osprey, Belted kingfisher, and a Green heron.
All in all a fun and productive morning of birding. Now if only preserve staff would start to whack back the English Ivy that's taking over the Preserve and heading up into the tree canopy in places....... John Turner -- 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/ --
