WEWA in GWC

Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum) (1)
- Reported Aug 09, 2025 07:57 by Tracey Chan
- 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/S266052056
- Comments: "unmistakeable with striping on head, drab olive back. hanging low in a large tree on the north hillside entrance down to sylvan water. seen here (40.6543598, -73.9971387)"

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

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

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L109516/bird-list?yr=curM

Prospect past week

WEWA BBG

Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum) (1)
- Reported Aug 08, 2025 14:15 by Chris Miller
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6680222,-73.96367&ll=40.6680222,-73.96367
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S265911383
- Comments: "Large caramel colored warbler with dark stripes on head foraging low in Native Flora Garden"

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Wickman PP chklist

https://ebird.org/checklist/S265838200

Note early ovenbird , north waterthrush, breeding bg gnat

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

OSFC in PP

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) (1)
- Reported Aug 07, 2025 08:11 by Kathleen Toomey
- 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/S265688228
- Comments: "Reported earlier by Forrest.  On eastern side of Hammerhead.  Medium sized flycatcher with strong vested appearance, perched on a snag high in tree.  Photo"

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

TEWA in BBP

Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1)
- Reported Aug 05, 2025 07:12 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/S265216257
- Comments: "Early. Pier 3 maze, western end. Observed mostly from below. Mostly drab bird.Low contrast UTCs, sharp bill, nae wingbars. One brief side-on view revealed a dark eyeline to me.

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Warblers around the nabe

Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera) (1)
- Reported Aug 02, 2025 07:00 by matt bourke
- 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/S265072665
- Comments: "looked like a juvenile. flagged by another birdwatcher . in the apple tree at Dell water ."

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) (1)
- Reported Aug 04, 2025 14:05 by Susie Dippel
- 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/S265105271
- Comments: "Pale throat, faint streaks on white breast, pink legs."

Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) (1)
- Reported Aug 04, 2025 08:10 by Jimjam 🦉
- 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/S265016340
- Comments: "On path at vale, very round guy, streaking on chest, pink beak and legs, did not bob up and down like a northern waterthrush"

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Warblers on the move in Prospect

Worm eating ,blue winged reported yesterday. Start birding, slow at first ,picks up towards month end...

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Toomey prospect list

https://ebird.org/checklist/S264576753

Note early ovenbird and Louisiana waterthrush

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

GWC BWWA

Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera) (1)
- Reported Aug 02, 2025 10:24 by Pooja Jayaraman
- Green-Wood Cemetery--Dell Water, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6492286,-73.9952976&ll=40.6492286,-73.9952976
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S264540355
- Comments: "Saw the black eye liner on the yellow, near the dell water"

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Early scarlet tanager

Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) (1)
- Reported Aug 01, 2025 13:33 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/S264288502
- Comments: "Flagged for date. Yellow tanager with black wings. Image."

Bonys at Vet Pier

Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia) (1)
- Reported Jul 31, 2025 16:20 by KZ F
- Veterans Memorial Pier, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6391393,-74.0369531&ll=40.6391393,-74.0369531
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S264074577
- Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "*unexpected at this date 🔴 especially on the river, but good conditions for random knock-downs on the river with a fast-moving low pressure system dumping a ton of rain during a short period. Around 4:30 visibility began to improve, and small flocks of laughing gulls and common terns began to appear out over the water; one feeding flock off the water treatment plant that was slightly obscured from my position rather briefly contained this bird. Small tern-like gull with delicate, pincerlike vertical wingbeats, a partial dark hood, and bold white flashes on I the upper- outer- "wrist" of the wing. Primary unders fully white unlike rarer (and less ternlike) black-headed gull. Vanished after a minute or so. Distant digiscope photos"

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

early bird ( warbler)

note Parula...per Forrest

Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) (1)
- Reported Jul 28, 2025 07:17 by Forrest Wickman
- 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/S263370737
- Comments: "Flagged for date: early. Maryland Monument steps. Photos."

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Northern Waterthrush in BBG

Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Jul 22, 2025 16:30 by Lisa Curtiss
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6680222,-73.96367&ll=40.6680222,-73.96367
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S262020048
- Comments: "Small warbler with heavily-streaked yellow-tinted belly. Seen at lilypond in Native Flora area."

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Fwd: Moth night with Matthew

Venue at Litchfield Villa woods

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Matthew Wills <matthewwills@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: Moth night
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>

Peter,

 

About 25 people showed up for the BBC's National Moth Week Night Fliers event in Prospect Park on Friday, July 18th. A good time seems to have been had by all. Fireflies greeted our arrival and set up and katydids serenaded us as we left.

 

As of this writing, eleven attendees have put up a total of 105 observations on iNaturalist, representing some three dozen species.

These include moths, beetles, flies, lacewings, planthoppers, caddisflies, cricket, earwig, spider, roach, and cicada, all either drawn to our bug lights or found in the immediate area. This link lists them all: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=40.66685269983176&lng=-73.97449963528965&on=2025-07-18&page=2&radius=0.0639678436419205&taxon_id=1. Many have not yet been identified identified to species level.

 

I've attached a live action picture. 

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"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

 

Greenwood birds

Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) (1)
- Reported Jul 18, 2025 15:35 by KZ F
- 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/S260907352
- Comments: "*rare oversummer in NYC where it is not known to breed, but has been almost annual around this time in Greenwood - classically such an early arrival would be heralded as the harbinger of an irruption, but not every year they've made an early push has featured an irruption, so perhaps these are merely early dispersers? Maybe they're hitting the coast after fleeing a part of the boreal forest that's burning, as other boreal nesters have been found to do in recent years? - all speculation. Anyway, continued presence at this grove of trees (40.6500608, -73.9904365) audio recorded"

Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) (1)
- Reported Jul 18, 2025 15:14 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/S260906112
- Comments: "Continuing."

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Solitary at GWC

Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1)
- Reported Jul 16, 2025 07:15 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/S260355555
- Comments: "In the muck at Dell water, lil brown/white sandpiper, nice white spectacles. Would have taken pic if i knew it would be flagged. Ask RJ, he's got some pics ;P"

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

rare date for Blackpoll warbler in July Prospect

Either a "floater " ( unattached male) or actually breeding male ?..

a good sighting...in any case

Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jul 15, 2025 07:37 by Forrest Wickman
- 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/S260189573
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Flagged for date: Such an odd date that I'm not sure whether to put "late" or "early" or "dispersing," especially because it was a breeding male, and singing. According to eBird, only the second year this species has ever been recorded in Prospect Park in July, with the only previous reports being from "NYC Bird Report Data" in July 1998. Even more weirdly, it was a breeding male, and singing? On Hammerhead. Photos. Audio also available."

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

First fall Louie waterthrush

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) (1)
- Reported Jul 15, 2025 10:40 by Mike Wilper
- 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/S260109415
- Comments: "At the upper pool. Poor photo to come."

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Night life of bugs and moths event in prospect park July 18th. Brooklyn Bird club

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1YpD7jpnjW/

Night-fliers! Join Matthew Wills in a celebration of National Moth Week by exploring the wild world of nocturnal insects in Prospect Park. We’ll set up both UV and incandescent lights to attract moths, beetles, flies, and other insects to sheets where we can examine them closely. Meet just to the right inside the 5th St./PPW entrance to the park at Litchfield Villa.

 

Friday, July 18, 8:30-10pm (more or less). Rain will cancel: rain date, Saturday July 19, 8:30pm

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Hoodie on the lake

Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) (1)
- Reported Jul 10, 2025 10:45 by Chris Miller
- 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/S258734854
- Comments: "Flagged for date and location. Juvenile or adult female. Alone between the peninsula and music island. *Photo to come"

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

BAEA GWC

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1)
- Reported Jul 09, 2025 11:00 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/S258442088
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Distant dark raptor. Long wings and flat posture. Difficult to discern in person, ID'd from photos."

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

This year's Fireflies abundant!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BH2Na32xU/

Also helps no pesticides or herbicides .. 

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Tremendous find in prospect : Short-billed Dowitcher at duck island

Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) (1)
- Reported Jul 07, 2025 10:42 by Ant Tab
- 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/S257834059
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Flagged for date on the county level but extremely rare year-round at this location (fourth record on eBird). Found by Forrest near Duck Island."

Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) (1)
- Reported Jul 07, 2025 10:37 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/S257836599
- Comments: "Awesome find by Forrest. Medium shorebird with long bill. Line from eye to bill. Dark cap, dark brown speckled back and speckled rusty-tan underside. Dull yellow legs."

Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) (1)
- Reported Jul 07, 2025 10:20 by karen o'hearn
- 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/S257831893
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Awesome find by Forrest!!!  i have sad little cellphone pix.  Forrest & Tripper have actual pics."

Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) (1)
- Reported Jul 07, 2025 09:18 by B F
- 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/S257829056
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Seen with Forrest, who found it.  Photo"

Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) (1)
- Reported Jul 07, 2025 08:22 by Forrest Wickman
- 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/S257840984
- Comments: "Patch bird! Extremely rare in the park (only the fourth record on eBird, per Ant), though common elsewhere in the county (if a little early—flagged for date), and even more unusually, it was just … on the ground. (The last report I'm aware of was last August, when Doug G reported some flyovers in the midst of Hurricane Debby.) Just W of the gazebo near Duck Island, on the SE corner of the lake, and it stayed put the whole time I was there, even as others walked within a few feet of it. (Presumably this was an early "fall" migrant and it's just resting—it didn't seem to have any obvious health issues.) Photos."

Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) (1)
- Reported Jul 07, 2025 10:34 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/S257914243
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Park mega and great find by Forrest :) Flagged as rare/early by the filter, but only by a couple of days. Brown shorebird with orange chest, long bill, blackish back. It seemed fine/healthy, and was even feeding at times. But stayed in one spot for at least a few hours apparently."

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Fireflies life cycle

And how we need to protect them

It's World Firefly Day! So let's talk about what fireflies really need to thrive. 

To truly protect fireflies, we have to think in seasons, not just summer nights. Everyone loves the glow. But fireflies spend most of their lives underground, hidden in the damp soil and leaf litter, glowing softly where almost no one sees.

The firefly life cycle has four distinct stages—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—and each one depends on a different part of the landscape.

🥚 Eggs and early larvae (late summer to fall): After mating, adult females lay eggs in moist soil or leaf litter. A few weeks later, tiny larvae hatch and begin their underground lives.

🐛 Larvae (fall into spring): This is the longest stage. Firefly larvae live in soil, leaf litter, and under logs for 1–2 years, hunting slugs, snails and worms under the cover of darkness. They overwinter in the ground.

🍤 Pupae (late spring to early summer): When conditions are right, larvae pupate, glowing faintly to ward off predators while undergoing their final transformation.

✨ Adult fireflies (early to mid-summer): This is the moment we wait for. Adult fireflies emerge, take flight, and use their light to find a mate (except diurnal species, which use pheromones). Most adults live just a few short weeks, but if conditions were right, they'll have mated and laid eggs.

So what do fireflies need from us?

🌙 Darkness

🌱 Undisturbed soils

🍂 Leaf litter and logs

🚫 No chemicals

🕰 Time

If we want to keep fireflies in our summer skies, we have to protect the quiet, hidden places that hold the rest of their story.

I designed this poster to illuminate the life cycle of fireflies and what they need to thrive!

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

July 7th after sunset southeast sky

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Flagged RBNU

Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) (3)
- Reported Jul 06, 2025 06:05 by Ryan Mandelbaum
- 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/S257458818
- Comments: "Heard "noot noot noot"ing, all three seen. Small, stub tailed, black and white face pattern."

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Happy Birthday to Paul 🎂

Happy Birthday to Brooklyn Bird Club emeritus Paul Keim ,celebrating today. 🥳

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Happy Birthday to Paul

 A heartfelt Happy Birthday to Brooklyn Bird Club President emeritus Paul Keim 🥳 celebrating today .

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

A kite is back over Greenwood

Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) (1)
- Reported Jul 01, 2025 12:16 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/S256022102
- Comments: "Unexpected! Between rain showers, caught it from a distance heading Southeast, seen roughly from The Greeter (George Catlin) statue. Lanky raptor with distinctive short front wingtips and striped wedged tail. Images."

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

PUMA in Bush Terminal Park

Purple Martin (Progne subis) (1)
- Reported Jul 01, 2025 07:05 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/S255943967
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Poor photos of female. New patch bird."

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

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Bats are feasting on invasive spotted lanternflies, Rutgers researcher says

https://newjersey.news12.com/bats-are-feasting-on-invasive-spotted-lanternflies-rutgers-researcher-says

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

BBC Member’s Night Picnic and Bug Expo! June 21 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm Prospect NW Nethermead

 Insect expert : Matthew Wills

BBC offers gratitude to Karen O'Hearn for organizing the event

BBC Bug Night

Nethermead Prospect Park June 21, 2025

 

(Thanks to iNaturalist observers kenelma & elharo.)

 

 

Large Lace-border Moth/Scopula limboundata

Green Cloverworm Moth/Hypena scabra

Larentiinae carpet moth

 

Oriental Beetle/Exomala orientalis

Asian Lady Beetle/Harmonia axyridis (larva)

Maladera or Diplotaxis genus beetle

Ptilodactyla genus beetle

Phyllophaga crenulata beetle

2 other unknown Scarabaeidae beetle species (“June Bugs”)

(beetle IDs tentative)

 

Band-winged Crane Fly/Epiphragma fasciapenne (first iNat observation in Brooklyn)

Psectrotanypus dyari (midge: first iNat observation in Brooklyn)

At least 2 Adedes genus mosquitos

Several Chironomidae family non-biting midge species

 

Long-palped Ant-mimic Sac Spider/Castianeira longipalpus

Harvestman (Leiobunum vittatum?)

 

Lime Leaf Aphid/Eucallipterus tiliae

 

Subfamily Hydropsychinae caddisfly (first iNat observation in Brooklyn)

 

Rhododendron Leafhopper/Graphocephala fennahi

A bunch of other tiny Cicadellidae family leafhoppers

 

Assorted tiny wasps…

Photos by Janet Zinn

Happy Summer!

Summer Solstice begins tonight at 10:42 p.m. June 20.This is when the sun will be directly over the Tropic of Cancer, marking the start of summer for the northern hemisphere and the start of winter for the southern hemisphere.

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

Events for June 2025 – Brooklyn Bird Club. Saturday June 21 picnic evening

https://brooklynbirdclub.org/events/

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"Birds chirping around you is a beautiful realization that life is incredibly good. Let this sound be a gentle break in your routine." ― Hiral Nagda