The "hot zone" has shifted towards the Terrace Bridge, with the Switchback trail keeping up its respectable reputation; First , a very brief look of YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT staying within the Peninsula sumacs, closer to the Peninsula road, led to the better bird ( in my opinion) of CONNECTICUT WARBLER, finally allowing me great looks after last weekend's disappointing derriere perspective on the Peninsula thumb.
Spurred on by a very brief look report by Rob Bate of a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in the Peninsula Sumac Grove, first seen yesterday, I spent my lunch hour waiting for this species to appear. Andy Beiderman, a new birder to Prospect I met there , whom I gave my cell # then , to text me in case of a good bird texts me soon after of a CONNECTICUT WARBLER that walked unto a wide slope trail. Pics of the bird by Andy when I got there confirmed the species; but never I succeeded seeing the COWA on my lunch hour yet allowed me to tweet/ alert my group.
I was determined to go back after work. Around five o'clock, I was alerted by a BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER in the woods on that slope and right below was the CONNECTICUT WARBLER ( my 34th warbler species for 2012) at a tree base, feeding mid slope and walking up slope into an area of Narcissus fronds or stalks , staying within, its eye ring a definitive field mark with the rest of the plump bird.. I relocated the bird after a friend texted me back, about 615 but just before his arrival, it already disappeared . Figures, if only 5 minutes more...Despite heavy shade, it looks like an adult female.
The slope is the adjoining slope that meets the southwest side of the Terrace Bridge; look for the road fork on the west side of the Lullwater for nearest reference .
Also of note other uncommon birds: an early LINCOLN's SPARROW where locals call the "Sparrowbowl" between the Tennis and Picnic Houses; 5 GREEN-WINGED TEAL on the lake with 12 NSHovelers, 2 Wood Duck, with 4 more in the Lullwater. OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER also reported, on Lookout Hill; I received notice that it was active at the "switchback Trail" early this morning , best spot on Lookout Hill.
14 species warblers
--KB
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From Andy Beiderman:
Prospect Park, Kings, US-NY
Sep 10, 2012 6:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
8.0 mile(s)
Comments: started with mike, dennis and ali and met up with others along the way
51 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 4
Mute Swan 4
Osprey 1
Rock Pigeon 20
Mourning Dove 5
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Merlin 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Least Flycatcher 1
Empidonax sp. 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
White-eyed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 6
Blue Jay 3
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Swainson's Thrush 2
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 10
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 4
Cedar Waxwing 10
Ovenbird 3
Northern Waterthrush 1
Black-and-white Warbler 4
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Connecticut Warbler 1 walking up sw slope of terrace bridge around 1pm, peter relocated around 5pm
Common Yellowthroat 10
American Redstart 10
Northern Parula 2
Magnolia Warbler 6
Chestnut-sided Warbler 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 6
Palm Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 10
House Sparrow 20
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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Peter's lists
Prospect Park, Kings, US-NY
Sep 10, 2012 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Protocol: Stationary
2 species
Connecticut Warbler 1 Terrace bridge slope
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Prospect Park, Kings, US-NY
Sep 10, 2012
Protocol: Incidental
29 species
Canada Goose 21
Mute Swan 6
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler 12 Lake
Green-winged Teal 5 Lake
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2- juv Duck Isl; 1 Lullwater
Osprey 1
Herring Gull X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Chimney Swift X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4; 2 feeding Jewelweed 3arch Br area
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Least Flycatcher 1 Binnen Run
House Wren 1
Swainson's Thrush 1 Peninsula
American Robin X
Gray Catbird X
European Starling X
Ovenbird 3 Peninsula
Northern Waterthrush 1
Black-and-white Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 25 good showing today
American Redstart 4
Magnolia Warbler 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 1 buff across streaky breast, gray head with buffy malar, thin eye ring; early bird
Northern Cardinal X
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
