Migration in the parks

When you have a lot of birders birding in the parks especially on World Bird migratory day, do expect with the multitude of eyes, a lot of reports. 

Focusing mostly on Prospect park and greenwood cemetery, birders reported a good number of quality birds. Let's begin with the cemetery.

In Dell water for starters, 4 Solitary Sandpipers mingled about on the water edge closest to the beehive.

However it was songbirds that stole the limelight, particularly a hing over Cerulean Warbler from yesterday.

Cypress Ave continues to be a hotbed for Cerulean and a host of other songbirds warblers and their ilk staying active into mid-afternoon .The Cerulean provided great looks in Cypress Ave oaks , a report I read at the crossroads Vernal Ave.

Also reported in the cemetery were flyover Broad winged Hawk, Yellow Billed Cuckoo along Central Ave , Hooded Warbler and Redheaded Woodpecker whose locations were not provided.

Meanwhile over at Prospect, birding isn't too shabby despite overcast clouds.A Hooded Warbler was found in the Ravine; Yellow throated Vireos on Lookout Hills South slope and center drive margins; 2 adult White crowned sparrows on the Hammerhead; 2 Cape May Warblers on the mainland behind 3 Sisters Islands; A Caspian Term flyover pProspect Lake and a late Louisiana Waterthrush all pulled in the birders 

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden needed attention, so I alerting readers to a Yellow throated warbler reported there today.

The birds are tough to see sometimes in the sense leafed out foliage but what is a rewarded sighting without a challenge .

Hopefully all the birdathon teams did well today and raised funding for a noteworthy cause.

"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
100 years old May 8th