Saturday, May 20, 2023

Blue up in butterfly meadow

Butterfly meadow is the lower meadow of lookout hills summit

Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported May 20, 2023 06:41 by Forrest Wickman

- 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/checklist/S138525876
- Comments: "Female in snag above Butterfly Meadow, then in Butterfly Meadow, then I lost it in the trees just S of the Butterfly Meadow around 9:10. Like a female Indigo Bunting—very brown and indistinct—but with larger beak, wingbars, no streaking on breast/belly. No photos (my camera was in my bag because of the rain), but I did record some of its calls, which Merlin agreed were Blue Grosbeak."

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