Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Migration Monday

Thursday night’s cold front rained migrating birds down on Brooklyn Friday morning. Saturday was even more hopping.

A Nashville Warbler showing nicely. Note the reddish color in the head.

There were so many Gray Catbirds. I figured everywhere north of us has been cleaned out.

Ours will be gone soon, too. Mostly: a few sometimes stick around.

White-crowned Sparrow.

White-throated Sparrows also arrived in numbers.

Lincon’s Sparrow.

(Bear with me: WordPress has imposed a terrible new version of creating/editing posts.)

mthew

6 responses to “Migration Monday”

  1. Eunice Miller

    Happy to say I think I have the last family of Catbirds here on the seacoast of NH.

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    1. mthew

      It’s those warmish Gulf Stream waters…. Every winter during the Christmas bird count in NYC a few turn up hiding in nooks and crannies.

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      1. Eunice Miller

        Cool I would love mine to stay.

  2. alanbar135

    Matt, did you get a chance to look at the plants that had red stems and leaves in the Dell Water? Has the Dell water always had such a large number of Ladies Thumb?

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    1. mthew

      Still haven’t been there since I ran into you.

      I don’t know what their plan is for the Dell Water. The Dell itself is going to be left to go wild, but consideringht number of invasives, some maintenance is necessary.

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    2. mthew

      Alan,

      I put the smartweed in the Dell up on iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/61999423 and some is calling them Pinkweed not Ladies Thumb. I don’t know enough to tell them apart.

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