10/25 - Stratford afternoon birding: After the Sunrise Birding walk at
Cove Island Sanctuary, I decided to stop in to Stratford.
McKinney NWR railroad tracks - not a lot of sparrows, a few song, swamp,
white-throated, and juncos, but the highlight was 1 VESPER SPARROW who flew
over my head as I was reviewing the finer points of nite heron
identification and then landed near the top of a leafless deciduous tree (Is leafless
deciduous tree redundant? sorry!) giving me great scope looks for over two
minutes.
also: 2 red-tailed hawks
1 rc kinglet
2 b c nite herons (1 adult, 1 juv.)
4 yc nite herons (1 adult, 3 juv.)
Long Beach Blvd warehouse pond, adjacent wetlands, and fenced off
field/dirt mound area:
pond: 4 hooded mergansers (2 m / 2 f), 1 greater scaup m.
wetlands: not much-- a few juv. cormorants, 2 snowy egrets
an abundance of sparrows everywhere here, esp. behind Building 500
which has the fence, weedy field and dirt mounds-- sparrow paradise!:
lots of savannah, swamp, white-throated, and song (savannah
by far outnumbered all the rest around Building 500)
palm warblers and yr warblers
e. phoebe
2 turkeys
Stratford Pt./gun club area: 1 BLACK SCOTER m,
6 surf scoters f.
1 greater scaup f.
13 black bellied plovers flying
in to Milford Pt.
several brant geese
Carolyn Cimino
Waterford
10/25 - Stratford afternoon birding: After the Sunrise Birding walk at
Cove Island Sanctuary, I decided to stop in to Stratford.
McKinney NWR railroad tracks - not a lot of sparrows, a few song, swamp,
white-throated, and juncos, but the highlight was 1 VESPER SPARROW who flew
over my head as I was reviewing the finer points of nite heron
identification and then landed near the top of a leafless deciduous tree (Is leafless
deciduous tree redundant? sorry!) giving me great scope looks for over two
minutes.
also: 2 red-tailed hawks
1 rc kinglet
2 b c nite herons (1 adult, 1 juv.)
4 yc nite herons (1 adult, 3 juv.)
Long Beach Blvd warehouse pond, adjacent wetlands, and fenced off
field/dirt mound area:
pond: 4 hooded mergansers (2 m / 2 f), 1 greater scaup m.
wetlands: not much-- a few juv. cormorants, 2 snowy egrets
an abundance of sparrows everywhere here, esp. behind Building 500
which has the fence, weedy field and dirt mounds-- sparrow paradise!:
lots of savannah, swamp, white-throated, and song (savannah
by far outnumbered all the rest around Building 500)
palm warblers and yr warblers
e. phoebe
2 turkeys
Stratford Pt./gun club area: 1 BLACK SCOTER m,
6 surf scoters f.
1 greater scaup f.
13 black bellied plovers flying
in to Milford Pt.
several brant geese
Carolyn Cimino
Waterford
