Bronx Brendan and I did our usual loop around Hunter Island and also Turtle Cove. Turtle Cove is having a culvert replaced under the roadway and the pond is constantly flooded, instead of being affected by tidal flow. The culvert opening has been blocked by steel plates. We’re guessing this will have a deleterious affect on nesting species. The areas where Marsh Wrens, Clapper Rails, Killdeer and other of our usual species is now flooded. This area was recently restored, at great expense, with native grasses. We wonder how they will fare being underwater for weeks or months.
New arrivals were the Kinglets, Phoebes, lots of Flickers and Brown Creepers. It was nice to walk trails without snow and ice. Turtle Cove Osprey Red-winged Blackbird Hooded Merganser Canada Goose Northern Flicker American Black Duck Mallard Great Blue Heron Bufflehead Double-crested Cormorant Red-breasted Merganser American Robin Hunter Island Blue Jay Northern Flicker White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Brown Creeper Pine Warbler Slate colored Junco Great Blue Heron Red-tailed Hawk Eastern Phoebe Golden-crowned Kinglet American Wigeon Northern Shoveler Gadwall Red-breasted Merganser Bufflehead Jack Rothman cityislandbirds.com -- 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/ --
