ICGU at BATP4

Iceland Gull (kumlieni) (Larus glaucoides kumlieni) (1)
- Reported Jan 03, 2026 09:00 by Michael Auda
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S292230988
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Feeding w ring bills close in on close S side of pier. Was gone when I circled back 5 mins later"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

GWC OCWA

Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1)
- Reported Jan 03, 2026 13:06 by John Huggard
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S292205710
- Comments: "Dull yellow bird with split eye ring .  Brightest yellow on under tail coverts.  Continuing at silver fir near vine and sassafras."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Palm warbler BTPP

Palm Warbler (Western) (Setophaga palmarum palmarum) (1)
- Reported Jan 03, 2026 12:12 by Nick Dawson
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S292183591
- Comments: "Continuing bird, incredibly secretive. Finally got a photo. Noticeably paler than the Western we saw best a few weeks prior."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Rusty BB in Prospect ambergill

Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) (1)
- Reported Jan 03, 2026 08:07 by John Huggard
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S292156697
- Comments: "Rusty flotation with whitish facial pattern.  Pale eye.

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

[eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Glaucous Gull* at BTPP

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Jan 02, 2026 14:15 by Amy and Toby
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S292029936
- Comments: "Continuing. Thanks to Ryan for posting its location. Large gull with entirely off-white plumage and a black-tipped bill. Distant photos before my camera battery gave up in the cold; seen at much closer range a little later, from where Maureen and Nick both got photos" 

Ryan M. Reported earlier this Gull on the jetty seen from the pier.

" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

[eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert

Iceland Gull (Thayer's) (Larus glaucoides thayeri) (1)
- Reported Jan 02, 2026 14:28 by Austin Johnson
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291958314
- Comments: "continuing bird - dark eye, small rounded head, pale bill, pink legs - photos"

Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) (2)
- Reported Jan 02, 2026 13:22 by chel sea
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291950453
- Comments: "Dell Water, where they've been observed the last few days. Two in tree."

Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) (2)
- Reported Jan 02, 2026 13:22 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291950455
- Comments: "Dell Water, where they've been observed the last few days. Two in tree." 

" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Two local rarities today

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 02, 2026 13:02 by Ryan Mandelbaum
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291921002
- Comments: "photos, big white winged gull with black tipped pink beak"

Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 02, 2026 08:05 by Z .
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291904961
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "same spot on the flats as seen on 28th. Feeding from exact same sapsucker hole. Presumedly same sapsucker butler in residence as well. Pic"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Chippie at feeders in GWC

Now the only feeders locally with Prospects ended.

Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) (1)
- Reported Jan 01, 2026 14:18 by Caroline Quinn
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291743590
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "At the feeders by Dell Water. Small sparrow with chestnut cap, grey face and and underparts, pink bill and dark eyeline. Terrible ID shots tba."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

LBBG Roost at BBP Pier 1 pilings

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Jan 01, 2026 16:40 by Doug Gochfeld
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6996104,-73.9973745&ll=40.6996104,-73.9973745
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291744098
- Comments: "Continuing 2nd winter, o the P1 pilings."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

1st day Huggard prospect chklist

https://ebird.org/checklist/S291656390

Note hen Common merganser, Rusty bb, ring necked neck ducks, Carolina Wren,fox sparrow

A good first day for Mr.Huggard...

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Cobble Hill patch patchy OCWA..

New spot for blog

Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1)
- Reported Jan 01, 2026 11:20 by E R
- Cobble Hill Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6882527,-73.9961675&ll=40.6882527,-73.9961675
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291644046
- Comments: "Flagged for date. Seen naked eye a few feet away, in a low bush, vocalizing. Olive/gray-backed warbler with yellowish underside and brighter yellow under tail. After watching it for a minute I decided to get out my camera but then it vanished in plain sight, argh. Nice New Year's Day bird though"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Common merganser on Prospect lake

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (1)
- Reported Jan 01, 2026 08:10 by Sean Sime
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291587998
- Comments: "Continuing hen. Photos"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

eBird Checklist - 1 Jan 2026 - Prospect Park - 29 species. BBC walk led by Karen Ohearn

https://ebird.org/checklist/S291608713

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Prospect Park, Kings, New York, United States - eBird Hotspot

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L109516

First Birds * 

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

New Years Greetings!

 May your New Year be a special one, healthy and prosperous, with dreams and hopes fulfilled.

The Kingsboider wishes you a Happy New Year!

New Year Greetings!

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson





May your New Year be a special one , healthy and prosperous , with dreams fulfilled!

The Kingsboider wishes you Happy New Year!










   

Last day gulls

On this last last of the year,it's all gulls.

Bush Terminal Pier Park hosted both Glaucous and Black headed Gulls, with the latter also visiting Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4.

BATPier 4  had the Lesser black back gill today, continuing at this location.Itd a good time visiting both renown gull spots. A late report also placed this species in Brooklyn bridge park.( See the report below)

Meanwhile the Iceland gull hangs around Prospect Park ,an observer believing it's the Thayer's subspecies, this bird continuing since pre CBC .

A hen Common Merganser also stuck around on the lake,loving the place

Happy New Year!...

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 30, 2025 16:29 by MI YU
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6996104,-73.9973745&ll=40.6996104,-73.9973745
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291474590
- Comments: "2cy @marina"

Iceland Gull (Thayer's) (Larus glaucoides thayeri) (1)
- Reported Dec 31, 2025 13:58 by Julian Elman
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291489407
- Media: 9 Photos
- Comments: "Dark eye, small greenish bill, rounded head, very pink legs. Pale underwing. Appeared only a bit larger than nearby RBGUs. Seen with mchl from hammerhead but eventually lost in flight over the lake. I still need to dig into the finer ID details but the spread wings look consistent with recent photos."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Rare gulls trifecta at Bush Terminal Pier #4 and waste treatments plant

Reports today of Glaucous Gull at Owls Head waste treatments plant , a Black headed Gull there as well but reported flying afterwards  towards BATPIER4 plus the gull below.. good stuff if you like gulls...

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 30, 2025 13:06 by Joseph Trezza
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291232674
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Subadult with dark back, straight black bill, punched-in-the-eye look, dark rump + white uppertail coverts and one donut."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Possible slaty backed gull prospect lake

A strong possibility with an immature seen from the Hammerhead or southwest mainland of prospect lake, up close.

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Come flock prosLake

13 Common Mergansers just circled over Prospect Park Lake.l

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

COME prospect lake

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Dec 29, 2025 15:10 by Joseph Trezza
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291071787
- Comments: "M, f, many observers

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Good gulls at prospect lake

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 29, 2025 11:45 by Jeanne Cimorelli
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291060140
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing adult and possible immature. Photo."

Iceland Gull (Thayer's) (Larus glaucoides thayeri) (1)
- Reported Dec 29, 2025 11:45 by Jeanne Cimorelli
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291060140
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird with dark eye, small rounded head and small bill. Photos."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Glaucous gull*at BATPier4

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Dec 29, 2025 11:16 by Casey Ferio
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291043145
- Comments: "*continuing second year bird that haunted the army terminal last winter as a juvenile and has now returned. Flew in (from the east?) and landed on the pier at 12:21 as gull numbers started to rise. After a while it was flushed by a car and flew high downriver towards the owls head water treatment plant. I headed south to try and get this species for my all-important bay ridge list (the only list that matters) but failed to relocate it from the bay ridge pier or by looking down into the water treatment plant from the hill at owls head. The only non-first cycle glaucous gull I've ever seen. Photos"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

OCWA in GWC ( unknown specific location) one of 3 reports

Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 07:14 by Susie Dippel
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290837475
- Comments: "Continuing, feeding at Sapsucker drilled hole, Sapsucker chased the warbler away"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

LBBG juvenile on prospect lake

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (2)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 13:07 by Austin Johnson
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290874815
- Comments: "one adult with a slate gray back and yellow legs and one juv"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Glaucous Gull continuing at BTPP

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 12:16 by Asher Fusco
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290832861
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing second-cycle individual, initially reported 12/23 by Joshua Malbin. Bulky gull with pink legs, marbled wing pattern, thick bicolor bill, and yellow eye. Loafing with Ring-billed and American Herring gulls, intermittently picking at a corn cob. Photos."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Come and LBBG on prospect lake , reports

Also note flyover Red shouldered Hawk lake

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 12:44 by MCHL ____
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290623280
- Comments: "Image."

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (7)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 10:15 by Sean Sime
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290623551
- Comments: "One hen on lake. Flock of 2 Drake and two hen circled lake multiple times then headed SW out of park, then flock of two hen did the same some time later."

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (7)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 09:26 by Peter Paul
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290626531
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "1, 4, 2. The four flew around and then out to the SW. The one was on the lake maybe the whole time. And then two flew in, out, maybe back in or maybe there were 9 total, and stayed for a bit."

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 12:44 by MCHL ____
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290623280
- Comments: "Image."

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 09:26 by Peter Paul
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290626531
- Media: 3 Photos

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

BTPP BLACK HEADED GULL *continuing

Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) (1)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 10:34 by Nick Dawson
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290549899
- Comments: "Continuing. Photos

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Orange crowned warbler southern GWC and plus 2

Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1)
- Reported Dec 26, 2025 10:27 by Asher Fusco
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290360947
- Comments: "Quick-but-clear views: foraging eye-level in a Yew on the flats. Pointy-billed warbler with gray head, olive back, and yellow undertail coverts."

Also reported today on prospect lake an uncommon species 6 Brant 

And....

BLACK-HEADED GULL at Bush Terminal Pier Park , roosting on the jetty by the Osprey platform

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Local Lesser black backed gulls

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 25, 2025 07:03 by John Huggard
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290149237
- Comments: "Dark grey back, smudgy eye.  Smaller than nearby GBBG. Was not able to get photo.  All gulls flew off lake when I was pointing me camera and then I could not find again."

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 25, 2025 07:59 by Yosef Yitzchok Schusterman
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290173416
- Comments: "Landed after flying from another part of the lake. Smaller than the other Black-backed Gull (Great). Dark gray rather than black or light gray"

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 25, 2025 09:50 by jules w
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290155917
- Comments: "adult gull, distinctive black wash on back but small; compared to herrings. would be consistent with caseys report yesterday"

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Christmas Greetings

The Kingsboider wishes all a Merry Christmas and festive holiday be yours this day.

May your Happy celebration with family ,friends or birders be meaningful and memorable. 

🎄🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

"The reason for the season"

Glaucous Gull flyover GWC 330 PM

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Dec 24, 2025 11:20 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290041148
- Comments: "!!! Large all-white/gray gull with bi-colored bill seen fairly low over Linden Ave at the edge of Hill of Graves, flying West towards South Brooklyn Marine Terminal or Brooklyn Army Terminal, perhaps departing from Prospect Park Lake. Reported at Pier 4 Brooklyn Army Terminal by Josh M. yesterday. I assume it's the same individual. Images for review."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

LBBG @BATP4

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) (1)
- Reported Dec 23, 2025 12:07 by Casey Ferio
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289867768
- Comments: "*probably the same adult I sometimes see from the bay ridge pier, in basically the same place. Small: dark-backed Larus, particularly heavily marked face on this individual"

--

" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Rusty Blackbird in Vale cashmere

Rusty. Blackbird in Vale of Cashmere today

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
















   

Two COME on Prospect Lake

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Dec 22, 2025 10:16 by Marleny Rafferty
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289702020
- Comments: "I spotted this pair on the lake while searching for the Thayer's Gull.  Juan Salas was there to help confirm ID, (thank you Juan). A pair of adult female common mergansers.  Sharp, clean break of brown head and body.  Unfortunately, only got 2 pics before they flew off heading west towards Green-wood Cemetery.  Will post my 2 pics."

Something to think about for the New year:

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Ralph Waldo Emerson