Fwd:BBC Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, May 13, 2018

Leader Matthew Wills

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From: Matthew Wills <matthewwills@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, May 13, 2018, 2:05 PM
Subject: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, May 13, 2018
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>

Hi, Peter

Ten people joined my walk this morning, which started and ended in drizzle. We got out about noon, just before the real rain. Fifty species.

Several new/beginning birders in the mix, and one 9 year old.


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>From: ebird-checklist@cornell.edu
>Sent: May 13, 2018 1:53 PM
>To: matthewwills@earthlink.net
>Subject: eBird Report - Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, May 13, 2018
>
>Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, US
>May 13, 2018 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
>Protocol: Traveling
>4.0 mile(s)
>Comments:     Brooklyn Bird Club walk led by me. Drizzle at beginning and end, overcast throughout.
>49 species (+1 other taxa)
>
>Canada Goose  2     Nesting continues on Sylvan Water island.
>Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)  1
>Double-crested Cormorant  1
>Great Egret  1
>Green Heron  1
>Turkey Vulture  4     Briefly soaring together over Sylvan Water.
>Osprey  1     High above Sylvan Water.
>Spotted Sandpiper  4     Sylvan Water. Have not seen this many at one time there.
>Laughing Gull  6
>Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
>Mourning Dove  3
>Chimney Swift  8
>Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
>Northern Flicker  2
>American Kestrel  1     Male.
>Monk Parakeet  6
>Eastern Kingbird  1
>Warbling Vireo  1
>Blue Jay  2
>Common Raven  1     Heard distinctive guttural calls then watched as bird landed on nearby pine to bark some more. Enormous corvid, rounded tail also distinctive.
>Barn Swallow  8
>Veery  2
>Wood Thrush  2
>American Robin  X
>Gray Catbird  X
>Brown Thrasher  1
>Northern Mockingbird  5
>European Starling  X
>Ovenbird  10
>Black-and-white Warbler  1
>Common Yellowthroat  9
>American Redstart  7
>Northern Parula  7
>Magnolia Warbler  8
>Yellow Warbler  1
>Blackpoll Warbler  1
>Black-throated Blue Warbler  1
>Yellow-rumped Warbler  6
>Black-throated Green Warbler  1
>Canada Warbler  1
>Wilson's Warbler  2
>Chipping Sparrow  2
>White-throated Sparrow  1
>Eastern Towhee  1
>Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3     2 males one female in same tree.
>Baltimore Oriole  2
>Red-winged Blackbird  2
>Common Grackle  1
>House Finch  6
>House Sparrow  X
>
>View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45630712
>
>This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)