Sunday, September 28, 2014

Croton Point Park - 28th Sept.

My first visit to a great site on the Hudson, about half an hour's drive north of my house. The site is a small peninsula extending southwards into the Hudson. It has a variety of habitats including mature trees, extensive reedbeds and open grassland. It is the only place in Westchester that has breeding Grasshopper Sparrow, and hosts a wide variety of birds at various times of year.

For a first visit the birding was modest, but with promise. The commonest warbler in the woodland was Black-and-white Warbler, with Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler and Common Yellowthroat. Other birds included Scarlet Tanager, Blue-headed Vireo, Carolina Wren, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, White-throated Sparrow dozens of Cedar Waxwing and several Eastern Phoebes.

The grassland was good too, with quite a few Savannah Sparrows, more Eastern Phoebes, a lone American Kestrel and a cracking Palm Warbler just as I left.

Palm Warbler. This looks like the eastern race D. p. hypochrysea. Uniformly yellow underparts and in face.
Yellow-rumped Warbler.
Black-and-white Warbler.
Blue-headed Vireo.
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
Savannah Sparrow.
Carolina Wren.


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