Friday, May 31, 2024

Fwd: Brooklyn Bird Club Spring Bird Walk

Rafael Campos leading

Note Mourning Warbler in ValeCashmere

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From: Rafael Guillermo Campos-Ramírez <ticornis@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, May 31, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Subject: Brooklyn Bird Club Spring Bird Walk
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Stephenson <12toms@gmail.com>


Peter:  

    on May 30 I led the last walk of the season for the Spring walks.  Eight people joined the effort, and we did a great walk. Starting at GAP we cover the Vale, Central Drive (missed a OSFL),Butterfly Meadow, Maryland Monument (another chance to see a OSFL missed), Peninsula, Lake edge, Pools.  In total we saw/heard 42 sps of birds.  The most great one was a Mourning Warbler seen in the Vale. Great views but did not stay too long for other people who came to look for.  Several sps of warblers were added (see list below), among then we heard 1 Bay-breasted, rare for this time of the year.

Here is the list:
            
                Canada Goose
                Mute Swan
                Wood Duck
                Mallard
                
                Rock Pigeon
                Mourning Dove

                Chimney Swift

                Laughing Gull
                
                Green Heron
                Great Egret

                Red-tailed Hawk

                Red-bellied Woodpecker
                Downy Woodpecker
                Northern Flicker

                Eastern Wood Pewee
                Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
                Eastern Kingbird
                Great Crested Flycatcher

                Warbling Vireo
                Red-eyed Vireo

                Blue Jay

                Northern Rough-winged Swallow
                Barn Swallow

                House Wren
                Carolina Wren

                European (Common) Starling
                Grey Catbird
                American Robin
                House Sparrow
                American Goldfinch
                Song Sparrow

                Baltimore Oriole
                Red-winged Blackbird
                Common Grackle

                Mourning Warbler
                American Redstart
                Magnolia Warbler
                Bay-breasted Warbler
                Blackpoll Warbler
                Black-throated Green Warbler

                Northern Cardinal

Brooklyn is great birding!!!

Regards:

         Rafael G. Campos R (Ticornis)


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