Pelham Bay Park, Bronx - Orchard Beach Lagoon & Turtle Cove Thursday, October 26, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, joined by Bronx Brendan Keogh & Jack Rothman at Turtle Cove
Highlights: Broad-winged & Sharp-shinned Hawks and Common Raven, but fairly quiet today and windy so 1/3 as many sparrows as we've been seeing lately. Canada Goose - more than 200 Mallard - not many Mourning Dove Killdeer - 9 in parking lot puddle Laughing Gull - 6 Ring-billed Gull - around 60 Herring Gull - 4 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 first-cycle Double-crested cormorant - 12 Great Egret - 4 Snowy Egret - 1 Osprey - carrying fish over Lagoon Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk - 2 (adult & juvenile) Broad-winged Hawk - juvenile, a.k.a. first-cycle over Orchard Beach parking lot (Bob) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 to 5 Belted Kingfisher - male Turtle Cove Red-bellied Woodpecker - heard Downy Woodpecker - male Turtle Cove Hairy Woodpecker - female Turtle Cove Northern Flicker - Turtle Cove Monk Parakeet - 2 (Bob) Eastern Phoebe - Turtle Cove Blue Jay - 2 American Crow - 5 Common Raven - low & close at Turtle Cove (Brendan) Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Turtle Cove American Robin - 4 House Finch - male American Goldfinch - 4 or 5 Chipping Sparrow - several on lawn near parking lot Field Sparrow - Turtle Cove Song Sparrow - 5 or 6 Turtle Cove Swamp Sparrow - 5 Turtle Cove Red-winged Blackbird - at least 6 Common Grackle - flock of 500 to 600 Turtle Cove Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 perched & some flyovers Deb Allen -- 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/ --
