Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) parked down the street from the Kissena Community Garden, entered the park and birded the edge of the field where we found a YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, a flock of CEDAR WAXWINGS and several HERMIT THRUSHES among other birds. We moved into the park and found it quite overgrown. A large flock of AMERICAN GOLFFINCH were feeding on the weeds, stopping to fly up into the trees where we found a single female or young PURPLE FINCH. Few birds and only a couple SONG SPARROWS.
The Community Garden was also quiet, but always lovely with its abundant flowers. Here we found about 30+ AMERICAN GOLDFINCH feeding on seeds, 7 PALM WARBLERS on the ground, and a single BLACKPOLL WARBLER. A SHARP-SHINNED HAWK and an AMERICAN KESTREL flew over. Total species 24. Still not a migration day. Sy Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- 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/ --
