Last Saturday was fox sparrow fest at the Point. today it was Wilson's Snipe day -- I personally saw six (a high count was 9) easily seen and photographed from your car window without, as some w very large lensed cameras did, flushing the birds. Just saying. Birds are in mud / puddles on left side of road, between beach and main parking area. I also saw of note FOY phoebe, kestrel (M+F), merlin, peregrine (adult), bald eagle (2), coop, resident owls, killdeer (12 minimum), flock of waxwings, common goldeneye and common mergs. Unfortunately I missed two horned grebe one in breeding plumage seen in hudson river and red breasted merg (far less common on this side of the County). osprey reported back on light stanchion at train station parking lot. A really cool and unexpected highlight was seeing the planes of the French aerobatic aviation team, in the US on tour, flying pretty low right past CPP on the way to Statute of Liberty.
http://www.nycaviation.com/2017/03/patrouille-de-france-soars-new-york-launching-us-tour/ L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
