Thursday, September 5, 2019

Cold front boids this morning

MOURNING WARBLER topped the birding hi lights in prospect park this morning as several birders worked the areas. Tops was Lookout Hill.

Ryan Goldberg found the best bird a MOURNING WARBLER inside Butterfly Meadow. It was an immature bird. Later, approximately an hour later, Rob Jett found the bird on the wall of the steps
leading up to the summit, before it shot off into the middle slope dense habitat. So much for that. Remarkably I sort of predicted earlier the bird with another birder , Ed? about "keeping your eyes open " for a Mourning in Butterfly Meadow. I wished I had the same prognostication for planning field trips . :)

There were reports of small pockets of warblers according to Ryan and Rafael. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER observed with the flurry on Lookout Hill was among the best says Ryan.
 CANADA WARBLER along the bridle trail at Quaker Ridge was Rafael' s
report.

Tom Stephenson started his first Fall Thursday walk series and there is potential more good stuff to report later.



Mourning Warbler (Geothlypis philadelphia) (1)
- Reported Sep 05, 2019 07:45 by Ryan Goldberg
- 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/view/checklist/S59528301
- Comments: "Immature seen hopping through butterfly meadow. 
Broken breast-band and broken eye-ring, and bright yellow below from throat 
to the undertail, separating it from immature common yellowthroat. 
Short tail stretching well beyond coverts. "

Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) (1)
- Reported Sep 05, 2019 07:45 by Ryan Goldberg
- 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/view/checklist/S59528301

- Comments: "*Early. Seen at top of Lookout in with red-eyed vireos. White spectacles, blue head, greenish on flanks