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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