birds were also numerous at doodletown (rockland county just south of Bear Mtn bridge on Rte 9W) Many male ceruleans singing in the open in various parts of the park, not as many and not quite as open hooded warblers but great looks, a highlight was orange crowned on road before Herbert cemetery road, several blue winged, black throated blue (1), black throated green (3), Palm, chestnut sided (1) yellow (a few), black + white, yellow rumped (several), (others reported Nashville and worm eating), chipping sparrows, YT vireo - likely nesting pair, RT hummingbird, Balt. Oriole, perched broadwing giving great looks to photographers, wood thrush, and BG gnatcatchers too numerous to count. I have heard about cowbird predation for years today we saw it in action as a cowbird clearly appeared to be laying an egg in gnatcatcher nest while being buzzed by the gnatcatcher What seemed really odd was we also saw gnatcatcher on nest less than two trees away. Is it possible they could dupe the cowbirds by building a second unused nest?
We had single lesser yellowlegs at Iona island where Sora was reportedly heard. Charlie Roberto called to say he flushed an upland sandpiper on the landfill at croton point park this afternoon. Finally below is a link to an article on the use of 3 D printing to aid urban bird populations "printednest" which I thought might be of interest. http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/printednest-3d-printed-birds-nest L. Trachtenberg Ossining 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/ --
