Date: 11/20/25 1:53 pm From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Wester Park - 11/20 - West Trail, always interesting
Webster Park - West Trail, Monroe, New York, US
Nov 20, 2025 10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Bob & Sue Spahn, <rspahn...>: Traveling
0.65 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Once again, Sue and I decided to do a West Trail Loop in Wester Park as part of creaky knee exercise, with chances at some fun birds as a part. Had company of Mike Gullo on part of the south edge trail in, then sat on the bench and spished a bit and added some screech-owl whistles - good for two owls calling back from the spruces both SE and SW of us plus a couple of Hermit Thrushes, a Fox Sparrow, cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, Blue Jays, + popping up and sitting or flying by or calling. More birders arrived and noted that we should look for Pine Grosbeaks near the Park Road on the way back on the N leg of the loop. Sue had gone ahead, and when I caught up with her about halfway out, she was looking at 3 Pine Grosbeaks in a fruit tree and had had about the same more move off. Back at the car, Sheryl Gracewski had seen a sapsucker back in the pines nearby, and I caught up with it before we left. We also had had a nice Pileated Woodpecker calling and then working a tree nearby as we started. Always interesting just getting out.
14 species
Eastern Screech-Owl 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
Hermit Thrush 3
Pine Grosbeak 4 Not sure I'd really call this species rare here. It has been on essentially every year list for this reporting Region of NY State for at least the 50+ years I have documented records. They typically are an every-other-year irruptive species in some numbers, arriving in the fall and persisting scattered about into late winter to spring of the next year. Missed the next fall-winter, but back again the one after, so reported in every year. Webster Park, and this part of the park, has been one of the prime locations for seeing them for decades. They have been reported here this year for a week + already.
Fox Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
