The sparrows that moved in yesterday in great numbers were all but invisible this morning. Where did they go? Moved on further south, no doubt. Still it was odd to see so many sparrows one day and then hardly any the next.
Instead of dowdy sparrows, we had elegant falcons: two Merlins zipping around overhead. They almost seem to be playing rather than actually chasing anything, disappearing over the treetops and then back out again with that fast distinctive flight and silhouette. At first I thought it was one extremely agile bird but eventually the two birds whirled into view at the same time.
An even higher flyer was a Common Loon on a straight northeast to southwest trajectory. Loons migrate overhead on exactly this track (in one direction or another) in both spring and fall.
Royal Terns still active on Weesuck Creek.
Eric Salzman
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