Met Linda Sullivan at 1100 in the Wildwood State Park's parking lot. We birded the the n/e section of the park, and while there weren't many birds to look at, we did find a pair of Scarlet Tanagers who treated us to a great "photo op" ! The female (at times ~ 10' from us on the ground) had nesting material in it's mouth, with the male (near the female, but ~ 10' up) seeming to be on guard duty. These fortuitous moments continued for ~ 5 minutes, during which the near-perfect lighting never waned, resulting in my best Scarlet pictures ever !
Linda then had chores to do, so I decided to try the Nature Conservancy property (the old Kemp Estate) in Wading River, It too was very quiet. En-route home, I stopped at the Calverton Grasslands, where I had 2 Kestrels and a FOS Grasshopper Sparrow. Cheers, Bob -- 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/ --
