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Leader Mike Yuan
Party : Janet S, Eddie D., Linda E.
Four birders spent a beautiful sunny morning at Croton Point Park, along the Hudson River. After a quick ride on Metro North, with some birding out the window, we first visited the mouth of the Croton River from the southern end of the Croton-Harmon station, where we saw the first of many COMMON MERGANSERS on the day. In Croton Point Park, a hike to the north point and the Nature Center gave us views of COMMON GOLDENEYES and more merganser rafts, as well as a PEREGRINE FALCON fly-by. We saw our first BALD EAGLE crossing down to the southern point, where we had good numbers of GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS and bubbly CAROLINA WRENS.
The park is currently restoring the landfill grasslands, so it was fairly barren, but we had our one and only adult
BALD EAGLE on the way down.
We capped off the morning with a pint and lunch at the Green Growler, a taproom situated conveniently next to the train station.
Thanks to all for a great day, and to Janet S for handling the registrations and the rescheduled trip.
Lists:
Croton RR station - https://ebird.org/checklist/S63820408
Croton Point Park - https://ebird.org/checklist/S63820485
Thanks,
Mike
