Anhinga continues yesterday
downpour Saturday not good for birding but note rusty blackbird marsh wren yellow warbler etc
| Common Loon |
| Great Egret |
| Green Heron |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| Canada Goose |
| Mute Swan |
| Wood Duck |
| Mallard |
| Osprey |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| Laughing Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Rock Dove |
| Mourning Dove |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Blue-headed Vireo |
| Blue Jay |
| Tree Swallow |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Tufted Titmouse |
| Carolina Wren |
| House Wren |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| European Starling |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Palm Warbler |
| Northern Waterthrush |
| Eastern Towhee |
| Song Sparrow |
| Swamp Sparrow |
| White-throated Sparrow |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Grackle |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Orchard Oriole |
| Purple Finch |
| American Goldfinch |
| Anhinga Best regards, Tom |
Sort of a Patagonia effect today with all the birders here for Anhinga watch
https://ebird.org/hotspot/L109516
94 species today including anhinga. Woodcock, white eyed and yellow throated vireo, field sparrow, purple martin, purple finch, solitary sandpiper blue winged and chestnut sided warblers and so on.
To the hopes of birders, Prospect Lake's Anhinga kept its promise to stay another day. For many birders its a lifer, a county and state bird or even curiosity to see a strange looking bird. Whatever the reason, it's a cool bird to see.
Early morning , a report places the Anhinga at the South middle lake islands named 3 Sisters. And there the bird favored this island cluster most of the day. I saw it perched in an oak tree in the northeast section of the eastern island from the south shore,thanks to Max Epstein tweet.
The bird moved around. At one point it flew high into thermal flight but descended back down to earth and Three Sisters. A birder saw it perched next to an Osprey; from this perch the Anhinga even snare a fish. Most views I gather came from the Peninsula thumb.
A last report late in the day mentioned the bird roosting on the western island of Three Sister s on low branches presenting challenging looks for birders. It was best according to birders viewing a distant look from the Peninsula. thumb.
Brooklyn's Anhinga has become a celebrity.
In a most spectacular sighting that adds to Prospect Parks legendary status, this afternoon was quite a treat. It was for me my #300 eBird sighting for Kings County ( though before eBird I had several undocumented records). A Kings County first Anhinga decided to make Prospect its glorious landfall.
At the end of Bobbi Manian's BBC Tuesday walk ,when most of her group left, member Racka Osickova found a stunner: there's an Anhinga perched on Duck Island. There it stayed through 5 pm, enough time for me to see it after I left work 350, thanks to my boss letting me leave early.
From the flash mobs vantage point at the Peninsula tip rustic shelter, the Anhinga was well seen and striking.
After I left 510, a tweet went out it flew. From the west shoreline, Michelle Truong tracked it , and me following her information, both of us saw the water bird land in the water in front of Three Sisters Islands. It alighted though 30 seconds later flew around before landing in a giant oak on the mainland by the lake drain ,near eastern Three Sisters. From that long distance, the bird frontal view was outstanding.
All I can say is Wow!
Thanks to the tweets for everyone to see this great mega rarity bird. It was long overdue for Kings County getting this Southern/ gulf coast bird
