Friday, September 1, 2017

Fwd: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Sep 1, 2017



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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Goldberg <ryan.goldberg@gmail.com>
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Sep 1, 2017 01:44 PM
Subject: Fwd: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Sep 1, 2017


My checklist from today. It was outstanding. Never seen so many flycatchers around.

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Date: Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:40 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Sep 1, 2017
To: ryangoldberg@gmail.com


Prospect Park, Kings, New York, US
Sep 1, 2017 7:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.25 mile(s)
Comments:     Fallout-like conditions after cold front and NW 15-20 mph overnight winds. Sunny, 60s. Huge flights of flycatchers and redstarts and magnolia warblers. Wellhouse, Lookout, Quaker cemetery, Breeze Hill, Lullwater, Midwood, Peninsula meadow.
56 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  6
Mute Swan  10
Wood Duck  3
Mallard  4
Green Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1     Across from the Boathouse.
Chimney Swift  8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  3
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Olive-sided Flycatcher  2     North of Midwood in dead oak tree and one above Maryland Monument in dead tree. Two different birds seen minutes apart. One had a much duskier vest than the other. Block-headed and thick-billed.
Eastern Wood-Pewee  9     Huge flycatcher flight in fallout-like conditions. Seen all over the park, often two and three at a time. Regularly calling too.
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1     Yellow in throat and belly, broad white wing bars. Quaker Cemetery.
Willow Flycatcher  1     Seen and heard near Lamppost 249. Sang: rrrrippp, rising sharply at the end. Drab olive overall and no eye-ring like a pair of nearby Least Flycatchers. Huge flycatcher flight overnight -- a minimum of seven species seen on the day.
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)  3     Huge flycatcher flight. Seen all along Wellhouse Drive in early morning.
Least Flycatcher  3     Huge flycatcher flight in fallout-like conditions. Two seen together on Wellhouse Drive in early morning and another later on at the base of the MD Monument.
Eastern Phoebe  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Warbling Vireo  4
Red-eyed Vireo  8
Blue Jay  4
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Veery  8
American Robin  12
Gray Catbird  3
European Starling  1
Cedar Waxwing  5
Ovenbird  3
Northern Waterthrush  3
Black-and-white Warbler  17
Nashville Warbler  2
Mourning Warbler  1     First-winter bird. Yellow from throat to vent, broken white eye-ring, heavy-billed with pale lower mandible (compared to nearby common yellowthroat), light gray on the head and brown-green on the back. Inside the fenced area due south of the Maryland Monument.
Common Yellowthroat  14
American Redstart  45
Cape May Warbler  2     Together in Peninsula meadow.
Northern Parula  1
Magnolia Warbler  15
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  5
Black-throated Blue Warbler  5
Pine Warbler  3
Black-throated Green Warbler  5
Canada Warbler  2
Northern Cardinal  3
Baltimore Oriole  3
Red-winged Blackbird  1
Common Grackle  1
American Goldfinch  25

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38939589

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)



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Ryan Goldberg
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