It was amazing for about 20 minutes just to watch them. They landed in a tree just above eye level about 10 feet in front of us. One at least if not both were taking turns flying back and forth across the road just above our heads. Here were two male Golden-winged warblers probably establishing territory. But Tom stopped and so we all got out and there were trees and marsh, I think, on both sides of the road.
#Longing for beautiful weather windows
We all heard a loud buzzy sound but we were caravaning with the windows open and lets face it, it could have been anything.
Thank goodness for the exceptional hearing of Tom the leader. We all enjoyed lunch before heading over to Ironwood Road to look for Golden-winged warblers. Olive-sided Flycatcher (Wrongly labeled as a Great-crested Flycatcher, previously)Īfter we finished at Doodletown we took the ride over to Sterling Forest. Male Mallard playing "Peek-a-boo" with us The Olive-sided Flycatcher was hard to see clearly because he was so high and the lighting was horrible. It put on a show for us by flying around above our heads back and forth between two or three tall dead branches. There were several Baltimore Orioles, Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings and an Olive-sided Flycatcher. We saw/heard Cerulean, Canada, Prairie, Hooded, Yellow, Blackburnian, Golden-winged and Blue-winged warblers and some saw several other warblers as well. Later it will return to water when it becomes an adult in 1-3 years Red Eft which is considered a juvenile Red Spotted-Newt that lives on land. Timber Rattlesnake hanging out on a branch at eye level! "Hey what rattles you?" A total of 71 species of birds were seen along with several herpes like a Timber Rattlesnake, 2 Black Rat snakes and a Red Eft. We immediately began to see warblers and hear them as we walked up the trail. Thank you both very much.įolks gathered and loaded up, we headed for Bear Mountain Park.Īfter viewing Black Vultures near the bathrooms it was time to head for Doodletown, "An active Ghost town." Ghost town because no one lives there anymore but people who did can still be buried in one of the two cemeteries. was leading again and his excellent wife, JoAnn had arranged all the carpools and other assorted duties having to do with logistics.
We met at Grand Army Plaza rubbing our eyes at 5:45 sharp! Tom P. Still it was an overall pleasant day weather wise. It was thankfully, not as hot as last year but it was overcast and we did have some rain. Has it really been a whole year since I wrote on this blog? (I'll explain in the next post) Was is really about Doodletown as well? Time flies! So the Brooklyn Birding Club ran their yearly trip to Doodletown May 24, 2014.
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