This morning when I walked into the park at 6am, all I mostly saw were YELLOW RUMPED WARBLERS. It got to the point where my subconscious was saying ," any thing but a rump,please".
It was about 8 am when the first call of a good quality warbler surfaced. Rob Bate tweeted BAY BREASTED WARBLER at the Concert Grove. Eventually during mid morning , I found this bird at the Terrace Bridge,in an large oak with a BLACK THROATED GREEN WARBLER; the Brooklyn Bird Club walk was on the other side of the Lulllwater but got the bird atop the bridge west end when I raced up to meet them when the Bay flew up the slope.
After the first Baybreasted warbler notice,however two CAPE MAY WARBLERS cast a spell on focused birders. Marc Brawer with Leslie Cadone and Tina Alleva found the pair south of Maryland Monument.After a short absence by the Capes,Matthew Wills in the Brooklyn Bird Club Tuesday walk led by Bobbi Manian re found the Cape Mays in a tall Cherry west of the obelisk monument. The birds cooperated nicely for all.
Three BLACKPOLL WARBLERS appeared today.There is - that I hope is just an aberration this year- that the appearance of a female BLACKPOLL signifies the tail end of migration. The male and female were sighted on Lookout Hill,another male on Breeze Hill.
However the prize warbler was the KENTUCKY. I was in the Brooklyn botanic Garden early afternoon enjoying the Cherry blossoms when I received a text that Sean Sime found the rare warbler on the lower west slope of Lookout Hill.This is the side facing the Quaker Cemetery. Near the stairs ,Keir Randall heard the bird chipping inside dense tangles and brush among a fallen timber and recorded a brief glimpse when I arrived 2 hrs later with Karen OHearn and Ed Crowns but the bird stopped singing.Just our luck and bad timing because after we left this spot , Dennis Hrehowsik reported it singing again at 615pm, one hour later.This was one very reclusive bird!
There were other notable birds to report.SCARLET TANAGERS,ORCHARD ORIOLES,a flyover COMMON LOON and evening PURPLE MARTIN flyover ( D.Hrehowsik) at Lookout hill's Butterfly Meadow were observed. But it was warblers day and I had to be satisfied getting some new season warblers on my day off at my " office" Prospect Park where I actually work.
date = 2015/05/05 site = Prospect Park observers = ALL BIRDERS,
Common Loon flyover quaker cemetery
Double-crested Cormorant lullwater
Black-crowned Night-Heron lullwater
Great Egret f/o
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk perched BBG tower
Spotted Sandpiper music island
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Great Crested Flycatcher lookout hill summit
Eastern Kingbird 2 lookout hill summit
American Crow 2
Blue Jay 9
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch lookout hill
House Wren northeast woods
Carolina Wren calling lookout hill summit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush vale rose garden
Veery Nellie's lawn woods
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing 4 Maryland monument stairs
Kentucky Warbler Sean Sime obs lookout hill lower west slope by north stairs
Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Black-and-white Warbler 16
Blackpoll Warbler 3, MD Mont stairs,breeze hill, female lookout hill
Ovenbird 5
Canada Warbler Vale Cashmere ( Alexis Clements)
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Bay-breasted Warbler terrace bridge perimeter RBATE,BBC WALK
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 4
Cape May Warbler 2 Maryland monument west
Chestnut-sided Warbler lookout hill summit
Blue-winged Warbler ed crowne rept
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler midwood north
Northern Waterthrush 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler numerous
Wilson's Warbler BBC walk Midwood
Prairie Warbler Vale Cashmere ( S Greenberg )
Scarlet Tanager 2, male Lulllwater,female north midwood
Swamp Sparrow 3; 2 vale cashmere
Chipping Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow common
Northern Cardinal
Baltimore Oriole 2
Red-winged Blackbird
Orchard Oriole 3; male adult lookout hill, 1 st yr male & female ad Vale Cashmere
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow
my personal list
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