butterfly meadow gems

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported May 11, 2026 06:49 by Anthony Russo
- 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/S337298862
- Comments: "Robinish sized bird, white eyering, bright yellow throat and breast with a brown back and wings. Perched in lower branch of sapling within the butterfly meadow at lookout"

Brewster's Warbler (hybrid) (Vermivora chrysoptera x cyanoptera (F1 hybrid)) (1)
- Reported May 11, 2026 06:49 by Anthony Russo
- 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/S337298862
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Black eye stripe, Yellow crown, gray body. In large oak at butterfly meadow on lookout"

"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for spring." — Rachel Carson


"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?"

David Attenborough
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