Saturday walk and Sunday AM

[ROBERT SPAHN]

    A quick walk yesterday at Huckleberry Swamp was the quietest we have ever encountered there.

List below. Water level in swamp very low.

    Today on the way home from church, off the beach parking lot at Webster Park there was a huge 

raft of gulls and cormorants. Minimum 3000 cormorants; far fewer but many gulls. No other species 

detected at the distance with binoculars.

    Quick stop at Whiting Road Preserve parking lot provided good looks (with just a bit of spishing) 

at Red-eyed Vireo, a Least Flycarcher, Common Yellowthroat, Gray Catbird, young Purple Finches, 

Blue Jays, and a few other UID flits in the nearby brush.

Huckleberry Swamp, Wayne, New York, US

Sep 20, 2025 10:45 AM - 11:40 AM

Bob & Sue Spahn, rsp...@prodigy.net

Protocol: Traveling

0.7 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Nice day for sue and I to do the Huckleberry Swamp Boardwalk loop. For birds, it was the quietest I have ever seen that loop. After 3 birds at the parking area, walking the loop counter-clockwise, we had NO other bird song, chirps, or movement until near the end of the first long boardwalk segment, where we hit a cluster of a few Whie-throated Sparrows and 1 each Song and Swamp Sparrow. A few distant Canada Geese flyovers. Even with spishing and owl imitations little else the rest of the way. The swamp was very dry.

12 species

Canada Goose  7

Downy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  3

Gray Catbird  1

Veery  1

American Robin  3

American Goldfinch  3

White-throated Sparrow  11

Song Sparrow  1

Swamp Sparrow  1

Northern Cardinal  3

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