I have been home for three days and have been rewarded with two great days of birding at local spot, Croton Point in Westchester County. The radar was again alive with migrants last night. Two strong rain storms came through the area. One in the early AM and another between 7:30-8:30am. The rain delayed Charlie Roberto and me until 8:30 to start birding. Right away birds were active. It wasn't fallout status like hooded warblers on boots in Texas, but there were dense amounts of migrants in a very foggy croton point. We started in the parking lot where the model airplanes are flown. This is a higher elevation area in the northeastern part of of the park where there are a bunch of scattered oaks as well a small part of thicker vegetation and understory. Immediately there was an obvious abundance of migrants. Warblers seemed to be in every tree. There were three male scarlet tanagers in one tree, a species not abundant yesterday. One Lincoln's sparrow yesterday was great, but there were atleast three today. There were also multiple white crowned sparrows around which I did not see yesterday. There were over 20 species of warbler in the park with highlights being multiple cape may, multiple wilsons, and a bay breasted. Another birder had blackburnian. I also had what I am almost positive is a western variance of the palm warbler. I have poor pictures of it. Other evidence of fallout like conditions were a huge flock of bobolink walking around the short grass even sometimes under trees near the airplane field. Least sandpipers and spotted sandpipers occupied almost every puddle in the park. Dunlin was an unusual sight at the croton train station. All in all a great day Kyle Bardwell --
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