Today is "Endangered Species Day". Particularly for quite a number of bird species on the brink, conservation on our part is the critical key.
http://www.stopextinction.org/esd.html
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Despite southwest winds last nite, my observation opinion RE migration this morning was that "not anything in masses", that is, birds were scattershot, a few seen and thats it. Some Blackpoll, Magnolia and a Northern Waterthrush at the back of Lower Pool..a friend I ran into said he saw redstarts and usual birds. Keir reported Tennessee Warbler somewhere. Of course i was too busy to take any time to bird.
On the Lower Pool , a drake Wood Duck hid under a fallen tree branches but shot out when it saw me, went to the Upper Pool island back shore where some Spotted Sandpipers walked along.
If I receive any reports later , I will post. At this point, we have to accept that the major migration is over :( and a smattering of straggling migrants will be best expected.. but keep birding till May is over, even into first week June. I recalled years ago, May 20-24th saw a "surge", and who knows with shorebirds , waterbirds, flycatchers, a rarity ?? passing thru or landing in. Be sure to check out the Duck Island mudflat..birding is a haphazard science...you can't explain the chaos or dynamics of migration. Birds have their own little minds...
--Kingsboider
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 5/21/10
Number of species: 10
Wood Duck 1
Mallard X
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Magnolia Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Common Grackle X
