Date: 10/3/25 3:44 am From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Webster Park - West Trail short walk - 10/2 - more migrants in brush
Webster Park - West Trail, Monroe, New York, US
Oct 2, 2025 11:10 AM - 12:05 PM
Bob Spahn, <rspahn...>: Traveling
0.3 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Another mainly exercise walk, but there were quite a few birds in the thickets, so I kept count. I did some stopping and spishing heading in to the bench at the back of the southern EW part of the West Trail. Sat there for a bit, again spishing and doing a few owl imitations. Again I will attach a list to a post on geneseebirds.
20 species
Canada Goose 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 15
Gray Catbird 2
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Hermit Thrush 15 This number is typical for this species in this and this type of location by this date. Numbers for HETH will increase over the next few weeks after good migration events. The lack of numbers like this in eBird is due to the lack of people who know the species and the call notes bothering to take the time to count in the right places. From working with records locally for many years, I can provide a summary of fall banding at BBBO for a number of species some birders look for, including HETH. This illustrates timing for these species over 10 + years. I can email it to any interested enough to ask for it. [In the past that number of people has been few to none.]
American Robin 7
White-throated Sparrow 34
Song Sparrow 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 4
