A great morning's birding at Jones Beach. The weather was quite clear with reasonably strong westerlies overnight, and a fairly steep decline in temperature. This all added up to a large movement of birds. I got to Jones' Beach early, and a good thing too. Large movements of all species were observed, including; 250+
Tree Swallow, 350+
Yellow-rumped Warblers and 200+
Northern Flickers. A good selection of sparrows was also visible, including many
Song and
White-throated, 3
White-crowned, 5
Swamp, 1
Field, 10
Savannah, 6
Chipping, and bird of the day, 1
Lark Sparrow. Another great migrant was a cracking adult
Red-headed Woodpecker. Other birds included 4
Palm Warbler, 3
Pine Warbler, many
Ruby-crowned and
Golden-crowned Kinglets.
A number of raptors followed, including 3
Coopers Hawk, 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk and 4
Merlin.
At the sandbar 3
Royal Terns were perched, along with 100+
American Oystercatcher, as well as flocks of
Dunlin and
Sanderling.
1st winter
Lark Sparrow. Present since about Wednesday. There has been quite an influx over the last couple of weeks with birds seen at several sites on the south shore of Long Island, as well as sites in Brooklyn and New Jersey
What a bird! Adult
Red-headed Woodpecker
Royal Terns
Cooper's Hawk
White-crowned Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Monarch Butterflies warming up in the morning sun
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