Tweet from Kathleen Toomey (@KingsKathy) Nighthawks coming thru PP

Kathleen Toomey (@KingsKathy) tweeted at 7:35 PM on Sun, Aug 29, 2021:
Four Common Nighthawks seen from the Nethermeade over Lookout
(https://twitter.com/KingsKathy/status/1432124776894586883?s=03)

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Early yellow rumps

 Two separate Yellow-rumped warblers were reported today in Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery,early birds for the date. Typically I would think late September is the time of arrival downstate for the species .

Who wants to see an accelerated migration ? 😆

Prospect Park, Kings County, NY, US - eBird Hotspot

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L109516 

The weekly review. 

Tweet from JJ (@JJ_bkny) day old Solitary SP in PP

JJ (@JJ_bkny) tweeted at 6:27 PM on Tue, Aug 24, 2021:
Spotted sandpiper scores a dragonfly https://t.co/oc22JU23W3
(https://twitter.com/JJ_bkny/status/1430295690450776067?s=03)

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Tweet from JJ (@JJ_bkny). Spraying ALERT**

JJ (@JJ_bkny) tweeted at 7:28 AM on Wed, Aug 25, 2021:
Early birders …Thursday night - 6:30 am Friday morning mosquito pesticide spraying. Prospect park, Salt marsh and other areas https://t.co/gCtHzUXzcL
(https://twitter.com/JJ_bkny/status/1430492331782901765?s=03)

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Tweet from JJ (@JJ_bkny) rare Lesser Yellowlegs in PP

JJ (@JJ_bkny) tweeted at 8:51 PM on Wed, Aug 25, 2021:
Lesser Yellowlegs at the Lake today! https://t.co/M4lxkf2Dxp
(https://twitter.com/JJ_bkny/status/1430694268864241670?s=03)

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Bklyn bridge park Alder fc

Alder Flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum) (1)
- Reported Aug 25, 2021 07:11 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/S93724220
- Media: 1 Audio
- Comments: "Rare, and requiring documentation to separate it from Willow Flycatcher. Fortunately, heard calling "pip" with regularity for a few minutes when I encountered it. One shoddy recording of the call, filled with cricket, cicada, and car sounds. Appeared more gray and round-headed than WIFL. Thin white eye ring, somewhat broken towards the front from some angles. Medium primary projection. Pics." 

GWC hooded warbler

Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Aug 25, 2021 07:58 by Tom K
- 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/S93710436
- Comments: "Female/immature. All yellow bird with contrasting olive back and head. Yellow under tail coverts with long tail all white below.  Long and heavyset. No wing bars or other markings." 

Lily pool backwoods new trail

 The area between Center Drive and Lily Pool was weeded and restored in the initial stage by the Prospect Park Alliance Youth Crew

Included within the project is a brand new rustic railing trail that meanders along the shoreline of Lily Pool.

Look for the bridle trail for the trailheads.

Thanks to the youth of today for tomorrow's birders and woodland visitors.

Tweet from Kathleen Toomey (@KingsKathy) peninsula LESP

Kathleen Toomey (@KingsKathy) tweeted at 0:21 PM on Tue, Aug 24, 2021:
Least Sandpiper reported by Radka in huge puddle on lake side of peninsula lawn
(https://twitter.com/KingsKathy/status/1430203618330877957?s=03)

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PP Hooded Warbler Lullwater

Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Aug 24, 2021 07:40 by Caleb Crain
- 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/S93673189
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "In Lullwater. See photos (the one that's good for ID is, alas, out of focus)." 

Toomey PP Checklist

 https://ebird.org/checklist/S93651575

Tweet from Kathleen Toomey (@KingsKathy) pp brown thrasher

Kathleen Toomey (@KingsKathy) tweeted at 1:47 PM on Mon, Aug 23, 2021:
Brown Thrasher right side as you approach the Peninsula tip
(https://twitter.com/KingsKathy/status/1429862806711676933?s=03)

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Vets pier Caspian & Black term flyover

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) (1)
- Reported Aug 22, 2021 14:30 by Anthony Ferino
- 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/S93601841
- Comments: "Flew right over my head at the end of the pier, as good a look as I could have asked for. Massive, hulking tern with full black cap, dark primaries, and large red bill. Wings broad in comparison to royal tern, wingbeats heavy and powerful." 

Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) (3)

- Reported Aug 22, 2021 14:30 by Anthony Ferino
- 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/S93601841

- Comments: "Small, dark terns north of the pier. Reported simultaneously nearby on Staten Island waters and further up the estuary. Hunting with common terns and laughing gulls."

Bird forecast monday

 https://birdcast.info/

If weather improves there might be some bird activity as HenriTS moves away . good luck.

Prospect fungus

 Found yesterday as I was fence repairing this fungus identifies by INaturalist as a Stereum genus.

On a side note earlier,Terry saw Worm eating Warbler in the Ravine.

Hurricane/ tropical storm warning

 Be safe stay home  or indoors Sunday.

It doesn't take alot of strong wind ( but gusts) to drop tree limbs,etc.

-kb

Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert

Summer Tanager report at Dellwater beehives this past late aftetnoon

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Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) (1)
- Reported Aug 20, 2021 16:54 by Hershy Nove
- 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/S93504346
- Comments: "By the beehives"

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

--Ezra Pound

Cape May property preserved after long fight

 https://www.inquirer.com/science/climate/cape-may-city-preservation-sewell-tract-20210818.html

For club members who visited Cape May over the years..its vital birds have someplace to rest in

Cape May’s largest undeveloped property preserved after 30-year legal fight

https://www.inquirer.com/science/climate/cape-may-city-preservation-sewell-tract-20210818.html

For club members who visited Cape May over the years..its vital birds have someplace to rest in

August 20th

 https://birdcast.info/

night of august 20th something to look towards

So maybe august 21st some bird action?

Bad news regarding an insect pest

Well ... they're here.

The dreaded SPOTTED LANTERNFLY was reported today in Greenwood Cemetery Dellwater area with multiples observed and squashed by a few friends. ( Yes..if u see them,kill it). GWC staff cut down the host tree Ailanthus but saplings left behind were attracting these bad bugs.

And today, singles were found by staff workers in Prospect Park. The insect preys and damages a number of tree species ( like our native Maples for one)

If you see them ( squash it)  ,send an email to Prospect Park Alliance. If u have my cell # or email address ,let me know. Make sure it's a lanternfly. ( And not any butterfly)

We are particularly interested in finding the eggs ( seen as a black mass ) on a tree,usually at the base.

Here's a link below from the NYSDEC about Spotted Lanternflys . Please keep your eyes open.

Thank s

https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/113303.html

Additional helpful link 

https://extension.psu.edu/deciding-if-and-when-to-treat-for-spotted-lanternfly-on-ornamentals

Did trash kill it? Bird rarely seen in northeast tragically dies 10 days after being spotted on Staten Island - silive.com

https://www.silive.com/news/2021/08/wood-stork-migrates-from-the-south-up-to-staten-island-dies-in-west-shore-wetlands-shortly-after.html 

I know this could be a sad depressing post but this is a lesson for all of us to take action whether cleanup or organizing resources to keep our habitats safe and clean..

Pp TEWA

Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1)
- Reported Aug 18, 2021 06:10 by Max Epstein
- 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/S93396202
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "flagged as rare for early date; seen low in trees right behind 9th street entrance, will add a photo."
 

City disapproves Botanic Garden-adjacent mega development • Brooklyn Paper

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/city-disapproves-botanic-garden-development/ 

Midwood Louie...

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) (1)
- Reported Aug 17, 2021 10:00 by Linda Ewing
- 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/S93363285
- Comments: "Midwood. Strikingly bright white supercilium, flared up; bubblegum pink legs; unstreaked throat." 

JBWR Shorebird festival

Sheeesh....

Tweet from Michelle Talich (@michelletalich). GWC Solitaries

Michelle Talich (@michelletalich) tweeted at 3:20 PM on Mon, Aug 16, 2021:
Got all of my Solitary Sandpipers in a row. https://t.co/z3nxxDMK2H
(https://twitter.com/michelletalich/status/1427349506870464512?s=03)

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PP Yellow bellied flycatcher

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris) (1)
- Reported Aug 16, 2021 08:30 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/S93327429
- Comments: "a juvenile, i think.  front fairly drab yellow overall, including throat.  complete but thin eye-ring, dark wings, and dirty wing-bars.  didn't see UT coverts.  seen between butterfly meadow and summit of lookout.  it flew down approximately towards wellhouse." 

Black terns reported off veterans pier ( Bay ridge 65th St) and Bush terminal park.

Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) (2)
- Reported Aug 16, 2021 13:45 by Anthony Ferino
- 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/S93327083
- Comments: "Near the end of my watch, while scanning through the somewhat thinning out feeding flock of common terns and laughing gulls, I picked up a small bird among them that was immediately different - small and lightly built, with dark upper and under wings. I immediately suspected I had a black tern, but it quickly disappeared back into the fray. After phoning my friend who had just departed on the Manhattan bound ferry and asking them to keep their eyes open, I got back to scanning and after a few minutes, my bird appeared again, having about halved the distance between itself and myself, and it was indeed a black tern… dark wings and a partial black cap, with a bit of dark coloration bleeding into the flanks as well. As I watched it, a second one appeared, and I observed them wheel around and periodically evade marauding laughing gulls. They were still visible, albeit further away, when I left. While several common and Forster's terns exited the swarm and flew past the end of the pier as I observed, the black terns remained out towards the rusty barges north of the pier and towards Manhattan."
 

Reported PROW in vale cashmere today

Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) (2)
- Reported Aug 16, 2021 07:52 by Anonymous eBirder
- 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/S93317292
- Comments: "In the Vale of Cashmere, bright yellow underside and head with gray blue wings. Beak wasn't deep black, was a touch lighter. Confirmed with birdsong, too." 

Tweet from Michelle Talich (@michelletalich) Alert** spotted lanternfly ( bad insect!)

Michelle Talich (@michelletalich) tweeted at 8:18 AM on Sun, Aug 15, 2021:
If you see one of these, kill it immediately then report the sighting https://t.co/bsqpG9Yg85

"The lanternflies lay egg masses in late summer and autumn on the trunks of trees and any smooth-surfaced item sitting outdoors. The egg masses resemble smears of dry mud." https://t.co/yc5HL7rAAP
(https://twitter.com/michelletalich/status/1426880856241672194?s=03)

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Goldberg GWC Chklist

https://ebird.org/checklist/S93277086 

See early Swainsons Thrush and Wilson's warbler.

Paul checklist

https://ebird.org/checklist/S93268775 

Note eagle ,flycatchers and warblers

eBird Checklist - 15 Aug 2021 - Prospect Park - 33 species

https://ebird.org/checklist/S93254487 

Ewing chklist this morning