[NatureNS] Birds today

From: James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:48:43 +0000
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I made a run to Oxner's Beach this evening and didn't catch the tide quite =
right for the shorebirds.  I saw only 19 black-bellied plovers.  Birds were=
 on the move everywhere though.  I watched a pine siskin chasing after a mo=
th and watched four yellow warblers within a few inches of one another.=20

=20

A trip to Conrads Island at Lower Rose Bay was magical.  It is that time of=
 year when you can find different birds from day to day and the change in b=
ird life since my last visit was amazing. =20

=20

The following is a list of what was present:

=20

European starling 4

Common Nighthawk 1

Common Grackle 1

American Crow 10

yellow warbler 4

gray catbird 1

song sparrow 4

great blue heron 16

herring gull 13

black-capped chickadee 7

American redstart 1 M

northern parula 2

double-crested cormorant 1

greater black-backed gull 1

mallard 2

northern pintail 5 females

black-bellied plover 4

willet 1

green-winged teal 2

mourning dove 1

greater yellowlegs 4

least sandpiper 30

common tern 2

Nelson's sparrow 4 only tonight. (two were juveniles)

savannah sparrow 10

semi-palmated plover 30

short-billed dowitcher 23

semi-palmated sandpiper 84

white-rumped sandpiper 12

lesser yellowlegs 2

=20

In Bayport this morning I went to retrieve my minnow trap from a marsh area=
 and 30 least sandpipers raised up. =20

=20

James R. Hirtle

Bayport

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I made a run to Oxner's Beach this evening and didn't catch the tide quite =
right for the shorebirds.&nbsp=3B I saw only 19 black-bellied plovers.&nbsp=
=3B Birds were on the move everywhere though.&nbsp=3B I watched a pine sisk=
in chasing after a moth&nbsp=3Band watched four yellow warblers within a fe=
w inches of one another. <BR>
&nbsp=3B<BR>
A trip to Conrads Island at Lower Rose Bay was magical.&nbsp=3B It is that =
time of year when you can find different birds from day to day and the chan=
ge in bird life since my last visit was amazing.&nbsp=3B <BR>
&nbsp=3B<BR>
The following is a list of what was present:<BR>
&nbsp=3B<BR>
European starling 4<BR>
Common Nighthawk 1<BR>
Common Grackle 1<BR>
American Crow 10<BR>
yellow warbler 4<BR>
gray catbird 1<BR>
song sparrow 4<BR>
great blue heron 16<BR>
herring gull 13<BR>
black-capped chickadee 7<BR>
American redstart 1 M<BR>
northern parula 2<BR>
double-crested cormorant 1<BR>
greater black-backed gull 1<BR>
mallard 2<BR>
northern pintail 5 females<BR>
black-bellied plover 4<BR>
willet 1<BR>
green-winged teal 2<BR>
mourning dove 1<BR>
greater yellowlegs 4<BR>
least sandpiper 30<BR>
common tern 2<BR>
Nelson's sparrow 4 only tonight. (two were juveniles)<BR>
savannah sparrow 10<BR>
semi-palmated plover 30<BR>
short-billed dowitcher 23<BR>
semi-palmated sandpiper 84<BR>
white-rumped sandpiper 12<BR>
lesser yellowlegs 2<BR>
&nbsp=3B<BR>
In Bayport this morning I went to retrieve my minnow trap from a marsh area=
 and 30 least sandpipers raised up.&nbsp=3B <BR>
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James R. Hirtle<BR>
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