Fort Tilden 10/4

Leader : Peter Dorosh

(note: Venue/location was switched from original Kittatinny State Park)

site = Fort Tilden (unless Floyd Bennett Field noted)
date = 10/4/08
observers = Brooklyn Bird Club walk   Leader Peter Dorosh
Double-crested Cormorant
Brant (flock 30)
Osprey (~10)
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk (Floyd Bennett north 40)
American Kestrel (Floyd Bennett north 40)
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Floyd Bennett community garden)
Downy Woodpecker (Floyd Bennett community garden)
Northern Flicker (several)
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow (small flocks flyovers)
Black-capped Chickadee
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing (several flocks flyover)
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler (Floyd Bennett plant nursery)
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler (habitat between street road and little league ballfields)
Palm Warbler (common)
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Clay-colored Sparrow (1 behind northwest corner ballfields;1 Floyd Bennett community garden "Gaudet"plot,late juv/1st winter)
Field Sparrow (Floyd Bennett north 40)
Lark Sparrow (drab adult inside restricted army reserve base, east lawn,on brush pile)
Savannah Sparrow (numerous)
Song Sparrow (common)
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting (community gardens Tilden and Floyd Bennett)
Dickcissel (Tilden community garden; first yr or female)
Bobolink (Tilden community garden)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Western Kingbird (east road next to Army Reserve base on dead pine tree ( NWballfields corner))

Ring-necked Pheasant (Floyd Bennett north 40)


" A true Patagonia day"; all exceptional Tilden rarities occurred within

 a 800 foot radius in a roughly 2 hr spread.

 Thanks to Seth Autsubel calling me and Isaac's help as well.

It was a grand day.

 

Peter

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