Birder Andrew Block filed a comprehensive report after 4.5 hours of birding at DeKorte Park for Friday — it provides a good idea of the variety of birds at DeKorte these days, what with the  continuing lowered water levels.

   The list ranges from a Little Blue Heron to a (still on the loose despite repeated efforts) escaped/released Cockatiel.

(Thanks, Andrew!)Publish

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Time: 7:30am to 12noon
9/25/09 – DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst, Bergen Co., NJ

many Double-crested Cormorants
1 Least Bittern
several Great Blue Herons
many Great Egrets
many Snowy Egrets
1 Little Blue Heron
2 Black-crowned Night-Herons
4 Mute Swans
16 Brant
5 Canada Geese
several Green-winged Teals
15+ American Black Ducks
many Mallards
10+ Northern Pintails
several Northern Shovelers
70+ Gadwalls
1 Ruddy Duck
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Northern Harrier
4 American Kestrels
1 Peregrine Falcon
3 Soras
many Greater Yellowlegs
8+ Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Spotted Sandpiper
6+ Least Sandpipers
2 White-rumped Sandpipers
3 Pectoral Sandpipers
2 Short-billed Dowitchers
2 dowitcher sp.
many Laughing Gulls
many Ring-billed Gulls
several Herring Gulls
10+ Great Black-backed Gulls
1 Caspian Tern
1 Cockatiel
1 Rock Pigeon
2 Mourning Doves
1 Willow Flycatcher
2 Eastern Phoebes
1 Fish Crow
1 Brown Creeper
1 Marsh Wren
many American Robins
4+ Gray Catbirds
2 Northern Mockingbirds
10+ Cedar Waxwings
30+ European Starlings
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Magnolia Warbler
3 Yellow-rumped Warblers
1 Prairie Warbler
2 Palm Warblers
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 American Redstart
1 Ovenbird
6+ Savannah Sparrows
5+ Song Sparrows
1 Lincoln's Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
3 Red-winged Blackbirds
7 House Finches
9 House Sparrows