good times for ducks with Common and 10 Hooded Mergansers, 8 ring necked ducks,etc
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Come pp
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Feb 27, 2025 13:37 by Kathleen Toomey
- 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/S215747481
- Comments: "Pair, fishing in the middle of the lake. The male pure white with dark head and reddish bill. Female, shaggy crest with white chin patch. Photos"
- Reported Feb 27, 2025 13:37 by Kathleen Toomey
- 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/S215747481
- Comments: "Pair, fishing in the middle of the lake. The male pure white with dark head and reddish bill. Female, shaggy crest with white chin patch. Photos"
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Ring-neckeds and Mergs
Highlights of todays Prospect observances are ring-neckeds and Mergs.
Running into a friend on Well Drive on my way back to my office, I heard a report of 6 Ring-necked Ducks at Ducks Island. Then afterwards I ran into two more friends who mentioned they had 6 more in the Upper Pool. A dozen Ringnecks is a pretty cool number.
Of course as it has been the past 2 weeks, Common Mergansers dominate the news at Prospect Lake. 4 are still being reported .
Its that time of year.
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 26, 2025 11:52 by Ant Tab
- 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/S215562689
- Comments: "Four drakes continuing at center of lake."
-- - Reported Feb 26, 2025 11:52 by Ant Tab
- 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/S215562689
- Comments: "Four drakes continuing at center of lake."
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Early great egret
Great Egret (Ardea alba) (1)
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 17:42 by Daniel Campos
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215452625
- Comments: "Flying across Propect Lake, landed and hid among reeds at lake's edge."
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 17:42 by Daniel Campos
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215452625
- Comments: "Flying across Propect Lake, landed and hid among reeds at lake's edge."
COME continues
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 11:18 by Marleny Rafferty
- 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/S215411534
- Comments: "4 males. Large waterbirds black back with white lower body. Skinny dark orange bill, dark almost black-green head."
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 11:18 by Marleny Rafferty
- 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/S215411534
- Comments: "4 males. Large waterbirds black back with white lower body. Skinny dark orange bill, dark almost black-green head."
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Gwc eagle and rhwp
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 10:23 by Greg Thornberg
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215403077
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Large male raptor with all white head perched in a Tree on the south end overlooking Valley Water and then left to fly over Sylvan scaring off the ravens."
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 10:23 by Greg Thornberg
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215403077
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing but first time for me in Brooklyn! Unmistakable full red head and seen in its usual spot. Poor pix and audio."
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 10:23 by Greg Thornberg
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215403077
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Large male raptor with all white head perched in a Tree on the south end overlooking Valley Water and then left to fly over Sylvan scaring off the ravens."
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 25, 2025 10:23 by Greg Thornberg
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215403077
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing but first time for me in Brooklyn! Unmistakable full red head and seen in its usual spot. Poor pix and audio."
Monday, February 24, 2025
Around the nabe
In prospect of interest is a small flock of European goldfinches hanging out along Well Dr near the picnic tables towards the well house. At the latter , an American Tree Sparrow was spotted . The lake still provides looks of common mergansers.
Over at greenwood cemetery , the Swanson Hawk flew near Valley Water. Redheaded Woodpecker as usual resides at Hemlock and Battle Ave intersection area ( Battle hill)
PP COME
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 24, 2025 07:45 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/S215209260
- Comments: "Continuing males on the lake. Photos available."
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 24, 2025 07:35 by Sameer Ajmani
- 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/S215200793
- Comments: "Continuing 4 drakes on the lake. Photos."
-- - Reported Feb 24, 2025 07:45 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/S215209260
- Comments: "Continuing males on the lake. Photos available."
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 24, 2025 07:35 by Sameer Ajmani
- 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/S215200793
- Comments: "Continuing 4 drakes on the lake. Photos."
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Redhead at Cemetery of the Eve greens
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 14:04 by Paul Sweet
- Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6818476,-73.9015532&ll=40.6818476,-73.9015532
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215184903
- Comments: "Continuing. Giving rattle call. Head now more or less red."
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 14:04 by Paul Sweet
- Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6818476,-73.9015532&ll=40.6818476,-73.9015532
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215184903
- Comments: "Continuing. Giving rattle call. Head now more or less red."
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Gone for a walk
I decided with the late afternoon fading to go for a walk in prospect park. And it turned out in a short span of time pretty well . I saw stuff that makes a walk worthwhile .
First stop at the hammerhead section of a lake view, I saw 3 hen Ring-necked ducks in front of three sisters islands. This sighting along with shovelers and near my walk conclusion when I spotted two drake Comon Mergansers added up to 16 duck species over two days after my bbc club walk of southern Brooklyn spots yesterday. Winter means ducks and that's a grand reason for enjoying them in their best plumage.
Around the lake ,I get word that the bald eagle has been spotted on south lookout. I found that eagle from the mid slope path above the well house , perched high .It was also seen from well house drive farther down but the view is unimpeded of branches higher up on that path.
A nice walk and most importantly getting out is a cure for Sunday laziness.🦅
😎
Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert
Multiple reports all stuff.
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Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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*** Species Summary:
- Common Merganser (1 report)
- Black Vulture (1 report)
- Bald Eagle (1 report)
- Swainson's Hawk (1 report)
- Red-headed Woodpecker (1 report)
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Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (3)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 13:36 by D K
- 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/S215146148
- Comments: "3 males by 3 sisters"
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 08:00 by Tom Burgess
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215144380
- Comments: "White wing tips, black head"
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 13:36 by D K
- 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/S215146148
- Comments: "Adult perched above green containers on well house drive"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 10:40 by Tom Burgess
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215145065
- Comments: "Continuing"
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 08:00 by Tom Burgess
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215144380
- Comments: "Continuing on Battle and Hemlock"
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Fwd: Marissa post of today's SWHA at Sims
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Swainson's hawk at Sims recycling facility (2nd Ave & 29th Street, Brooklyn, behind the Metropolitan Dentention Center), at 2 pm 2/23/25. Look just below the roofline of the left side of the building in the back. The bird has a belly band, and also the distinctive white patch below the beak and dark stripes on the sides of its face. Thanks to birders Matt & Valerie for confirming the ID.
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Swanson hawk continuing
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 09:59 by Elle Auklet
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215026676
- Comments: "Continuing bird on the main building, seen by mob."
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 09:49 by Kevin Snyder
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215023239
- Comments: "Perched in NW corner of building with raised angled roof
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 09:59 by Elle Auklet
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215026676
- Comments: "Continuing bird on the main building, seen by mob."
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 09:49 by Kevin Snyder
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215023239
- Comments: "Perched in NW corner of building with raised angled roof
Prey for bald eagle
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 10:28 by Theodore Muth
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215028126
- Comments: "In tree with dead duck. Past 3 sisters. Observed by many.
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 10:28 by Theodore Muth
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S215028126
- Comments: "In tree with dead duck. Past 3 sisters. Observed by many.
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 08:08 by Heydi Lopes
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Adult, large dark brown bird with white tail and head. Saw all the gulls scatter and then saw the bald eagle swoop down low. I couldn’t see what it got, but it apparently got a duck. Then flew to the other side of the lake, sat down and proceeded to eat the duck
- Reported Feb 23, 2025 08:08 by Heydi Lopes
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Adult, large dark brown bird with white tail and head. Saw all the gulls scatter and then saw the bald eagle swoop down low. I couldn’t see what it got, but it apparently got a duck. Then flew to the other side of the lake, sat down and proceeded to eat the duck
Gwc ocwa
Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1)
- Reported Feb 22, 2025 13:28 by Angela Panetta
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214985032
- Comments: "At crescent, pulling bugs? Sap from holes at a tree with sapsuckers, chickadees"
- Reported Feb 22, 2025 13:28 by Angela Panetta
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214985032
- Comments: "At crescent, pulling bugs? Sap from holes at a tree with sapsuckers, chickadees"
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Round the nabe
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 22, 2025 14:53 by Daniel Smith
- 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/S214904370
- Comments: "4drakes in the middle of lake"
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 22, 2025 15:18 by Kevin Snyder
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214910579
- Comments: "On his favorite tree
- Reported Feb 22, 2025 14:53 by Daniel Smith
- 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/S214904370
- Comments: "4drakes in the middle of lake"
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 22, 2025 15:18 by Kevin Snyder
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214910579
- Comments: "On his favorite tree
Laie morning today, SWAINSON HAWK and BALD EAGLE reported over greenwood cemetery with eagled landing by Sylvan Water and Swainsons over crescent water
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
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Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert
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Date: Friday, February 21, 2025
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: prosbird@gmail.com
*** Species Summary:
- Common Merganser (2 reports)
- Bald Eagle (1 report)
- Swainson's Hawk (3 reports)
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NOTE: all sightings are UNCONFIRMED unless indicated.
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Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:40 by Z .
- 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/S214720193
- Comments: "males on edge of and diving under the ice - nice enough to get close to a hooded to show substantially larger size, dark head- no spikes, white /pale chest"
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 07:39 by Peter Paul
- 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/S214721353
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "All male - white mergansers with green heads, red bills. At one point three took off, but later there were four again, so presumably they came back."
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:40 by Z .
- 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/S214720193
- Comments: "adult, white head/tail hunting briefly over lake, took a dive at a duck and then seemed to throw in the towel, vaguely toward greenwood"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:05 by Rafael Campos-RamÃrez
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6555736,-73.9938211&ll=40.6555736,-73.9938211
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214715595
- Comments: "Dark throat large hawk, no reddish tail. Reported before (02/15/2025) by others."
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:05 by Jane Zucker
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6555736,-73.9938211&ll=40.6555736,-73.9938211
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214720011
- Comments: "Dark throat large hawk, no reddish tail. Reported before (02/15/2025) by others."
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:21 by Peter Paul
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214717253
- Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Huge thank you to Michael S. for the alert that this bird was in the cemetery! I headed that way and met up with him, and it wasn't long before we saw it over Sylvan, eventually tracked it back up towards Pine Hill, and saw it once or twice more. It never landed, and was hard to keep track of. But with RTHAs bullying it around at Sims, perhaps it'll use the cemetery more (or venture into Prospect next??). Buteo with dark bib, buffy arms with dark flight feathers, pointy wing shape, thick dark band at the end of the tail."
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost
Friday, February 21, 2025
Redheaded wp
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 09:56 by Jeremy K
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214687173
- Comments: "at battle and hemlock, as previously reported"
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 09:56 by Jeremy K
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214687173
- Comments: "at battle and hemlock, as previously reported"
Feb 21 COME
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 07:12 by Julian Elman
- 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/S214654571
- Comments: "continuing males"
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 07:12 by Julian Elman
- 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/S214654571
- Comments: "continuing males"
Thursday, February 20, 2025
COME continuing
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 20, 2025 10:17 by MCHL ____
- Hello MODO, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6598028,-73.9808692&ll=40.6598028,-73.9808692
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214586633
- Comments: "Big influx this year in Brooklyn. Flappy pair in tight formation, moving NE toward Prospect Park lake. Long bright bill. Dark head. Large white wing-patches. Strongly delineated goose-like duck."
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 20, 2025 15:00 by karen o'hearn
- 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/S214588865
- Comments: "dark-headed, pointy red-billed, white-fronted males. in distant patch of open water."
- Reported Feb 20, 2025 10:17 by MCHL ____
- Hello MODO, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6598028,-73.9808692&ll=40.6598028,-73.9808692
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214586633
- Comments: "Big influx this year in Brooklyn. Flappy pair in tight formation, moving NE toward Prospect Park lake. Long bright bill. Dark head. Large white wing-patches. Strongly delineated goose-like duck."
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 20, 2025 15:00 by karen o'hearn
- 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/S214588865
- Comments: "dark-headed, pointy red-billed, white-fronted males. in distant patch of open water."
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Planet map
Feb 24th and week after
Look 7 pm low horizon west sky for mercury and Saturn,sweep left east for Venus,Jupiter and Mars. Neptune and Uranus best in scope in clearer non light polluted sky.
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
SWHA Details
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 16:50 by Jia-En Ho
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214463540
- Comments: "Perched under the roof of the recycling center"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 15:47 by Richard Fleming
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214460424
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Three-peat now adult bird. Notes, photos WBA"
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 16:50 by Jia-En Ho
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214463540
- Comments: "Perched under the roof of the recycling center"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 15:47 by Richard Fleming
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214460424
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Three-peat now adult bird. Notes, photos WBA"
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Come and greater scaup
Besides the 6 common mergs ,a single greater scaup had been hanging out by three sisters islands
Prospect lake.
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 16:14 by Howard Walfish
- 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/S214453212
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing on lake"
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
SWHA update
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 11:55 by Richard Haimes
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214416046
- Comments: "Continuing bird at this location.
- Reported Feb 19, 2025 11:55 by Richard Haimes
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214416046
- Comments: "Continuing bird at this location.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Swainson hawk today
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 18, 2025 16:45 by Julian Elman
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214320056
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Usual perch"
- Reported Feb 18, 2025 16:45 by Julian Elman
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214320056
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Usual perch"
PPL COME continues
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (3)
- Reported Feb 18, 2025 09:32 by Riley Wolf
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214272500
- Comments: "drakes, between peninsula and three sisters"
- Reported Feb 18, 2025 09:32 by Riley Wolf
- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6553787,-73.9686421&ll=40.6553787,-73.9686421
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214272500
- Comments: "drakes, between peninsula and three sisters"
Monday, February 17, 2025
A fine afternoon at the lake
I had to refill the feeders after a long spell absent. But passing by the lake on the way back proved very fortuitous. I found myself some good ducks and nice numbers too.
Originally, my first spot were two drake Common Mergansers in the lake middle. But after running into my friend Donna on the west shore,that number increased to six.When I got home ,reading Ebird alert reports, I read someone today had 11 Common mergansers, a darn good number for prospect.
Theres more. 6 Hooded Mergansers also occupied the lake and an equal number of Ring necked Ducks stayed by West Island ice edge.
Well it's that time of year as February draws to its end.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Originally, my first spot were two drake Common Mergansers in the lake middle. But after running into my friend Donna on the west shore,that number increased to six.When I got home ,reading Ebird alert reports, I read someone today had 11 Common mergansers, a darn good number for prospect.
Theres more. 6 Hooded Mergansers also occupied the lake and an equal number of Ring necked Ducks stayed by West Island ice edge.
Well it's that time of year as February draws to its end.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost
Swainson continues at sims recycled
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 11:00 by Jennifer Kepler
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214063107
- Comments: "Back for another season? Rufous belly, watched it cough up a pellet! Hunkered down under the rafters. Crappy photos to add later"
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 11:00 by Jennifer Kepler
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214063107
- Comments: "Back for another season? Rufous belly, watched it cough up a pellet! Hunkered down under the rafters. Crappy photos to add later"
Prospect black vulture
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) (1)
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 07:08 by John Huggard
- 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/S214063096
- Comments: "Soaring near well house. Close view"
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 07:08 by John Huggard
- 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/S214063096
- Comments: "Soaring near well house. Close view"
Gwc come
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 11:00 by Forrest Wickman
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214060298
- Comments: "Two drakes on Sylvan."
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 11:00 by Ant Tab
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214060297
- Comments: "Two drakes on Sylvan."
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 11:00 by Forrest Wickman
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214060298
- Comments: "Two drakes on Sylvan."
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 11:00 by Ant Tab
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214060297
- Comments: "Two drakes on Sylvan."
Swainsons hawk update for monday
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 08:52 by Angela Panetta
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214025964
- Comments: "Returning; perched on bar under lip of recycling area"
- Reported Feb 17, 2025 08:52 by Angela Panetta
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214025964
- Comments: "Returning; perched on bar under lip of recycling area"
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Rhwp around battle hill area
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 by Anonymous eBirder
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213911523
- Comments: "Close-up views in tree in cemetery, full red head."
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 by Anonymous eBirder
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213911523
- Comments: "Close-up views in tree in cemetery, full red head."
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
SWAINSON hawk and Common mergansers
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:00 by Corey Finger
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213733426
- Comments: "Continuing: perched on peak of recycling building. Distantly and poorly digiscoped."
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:00 by Corey Finger
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6624882,-74.0090782&ll=40.6624882,-74.0090782
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213733426
- Comments: "Continuing: perched on peak of recycling building. Distantly and poorly digiscoped."
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 12:32 by A S
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213833618
- Comments: "2 males spotted earlier by Peter D. In sylvan lake."
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Post from The Kingsboider (@BBCKingsbirds)Sylvan water COME Two
The Kingsboider (@BBCKingsbirds) posted at 11:48 AM on Sun, Feb 16, 2025:
Two drake Common mergansers Sylvan water greenwood Cemetery
(https://x.com/BBCKingsbirds/status/1891167745925874111?s=03)
Two drake Common mergansers Sylvan water greenwood Cemetery
(https://x.com/BBCKingsbirds/status/1891167745925874111?s=03)
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Saturday, February 15, 2025
**SWAINSON HAWK returns to Sims facility
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 13:04 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213615657
- Comments: "!!!Spotted at a great distance, perched on the metal structure at Sim's recycling facility. Hunched hawk, sitting at more of an incline than the expected red-tail posture. Viewed from multiple locations, before heading to Sims for closer views. 3rd year returning bird!"
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 13:04 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213615657
- Comments: "!!!Spotted at a great distance, perched on the metal structure at Sim's recycling facility. Hunched hawk, sitting at more of an incline than the expected red-tail posture. Viewed from multiple locations, before heading to Sims for closer views. 3rd year returning bird!"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 16:25 by chel sea
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Medium large buteo shape with dark distinct bib, dark back/upper parts, extra hunched posture. Hopefully catching some juicy rats free from rodenticide. Thanks to Ryan for the digiscope photo, scope views & good company! And big shoutout to MCHL for finding this bird AGAIN and getting the word out!"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 15:40 by KZ F
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "**returning bird to this location, here for (part of) its third winter; found each time by the great Michael Silber from inside Greenwood Cemetery. Now sporting stunning adult plumage, with a bright white nose-bridge and a well-defined dark bib. Characteristic long, lance-like primaries projecting beyond the tail, giving this bird a falcon-like silhouette. Perched on its former haunt at the top of the Sims Recycling building, looking equal parts majestic and incongruous in the heavy snow. Very nice to reunite with this old friend, which was a life bird for me when I first saw this individual on Staten Island in January 2023 and became the first Brooklyn record when it was relocated this side of the Hudson by Michael. Almost unprecedented in the northeast as an overwinterer, and even more unusual for an adult, which led me to believe this individual and the adult Swainson’s hawk wintering in Ipswich Massachusetts are one in same, but the Ipswich bird continues today. Seen from the entrance to the Sims substation at 29th street and Second Ave. Do not go through the second gate, by the Fresh Direct crossdock. Snowy photos"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 14:41 by MCHL ____
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "!!!3rd year returning! While birding in green-wood cemetery I spotted a perched raptor with a distinct hunched posture on the sloped metal roof of Sims. I went to Sims for a closer look. Strong brown bib, hunched/angled posture, and very long wings. Welcome back!"
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 13:04 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Comments: "Continuing. Seen on battle hill today."
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 16:25 by chel sea
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Medium large buteo shape with dark distinct bib, dark back/upper parts, extra hunched posture. Hopefully catching some juicy rats free from rodenticide. Thanks to Ryan for the digiscope photo, scope views & good company! And big shoutout to MCHL for finding this bird AGAIN and getting the word out!"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 15:40 by KZ F
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "**returning bird to this location, here for (part of) its third winter; found each time by the great Michael Silber from inside Greenwood Cemetery. Now sporting stunning adult plumage, with a bright white nose-bridge and a well-defined dark bib. Characteristic long, lance-like primaries projecting beyond the tail, giving this bird a falcon-like silhouette. Perched on its former haunt at the top of the Sims Recycling building, looking equal parts majestic and incongruous in the heavy snow. Very nice to reunite with this old friend, which was a life bird for me when I first saw this individual on Staten Island in January 2023 and became the first Brooklyn record when it was relocated this side of the Hudson by Michael. Almost unprecedented in the northeast as an overwinterer, and even more unusual for an adult, which led me to believe this individual and the adult Swainson’s hawk wintering in Ipswich Massachusetts are one in same, but the Ipswich bird continues today. Seen from the entrance to the Sims substation at 29th street and Second Ave. Do not go through the second gate, by the Fresh Direct crossdock. Snowy photos"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 14:41 by MCHL ____
- Sims Municipal Recycling (restricted access), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "!!!3rd year returning! While birding in green-wood cemetery I spotted a perched raptor with a distinct hunched posture on the sloped metal roof of Sims. I went to Sims for a closer look. Strong brown bib, hunched/angled posture, and very long wings. Welcome back!"
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 13:04 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Comments: "Continuing. Seen on battle hill today."
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Rhwp at Hemlock and battle aves area
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 08:51 by Angela Panetta
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213500999
- Comments: "Continuing"
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 08:51 by Angela Panetta
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213500999
- Comments: "Continuing"
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Sunday BBC Walk cancelled
Due to Sunday's rain forecast, the Brooklyn bird club GBBC walk led by Tina A.is CANCELLED.
--
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost
Friday, February 14, 2025
March 14, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse in New York, New York, USA
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/new-york?iso=20250314
Begins 11:57 pm ,peak red 2:58 am in the morning.
Fingers crossed for clear skies ( and you' re a night owl !👀😄)
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Hays obit, tern conservationist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/science/helen-hays-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1EAjlLEPO6C8zSYoBVLu2zzArUlLbmDmkLL2GRwcKstnLfiOULbdFQwzA_aem_YYhwUGNISceH995ndrw-uw
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
GWC Suzuki chklist
note Black vulture and continuing long stay Red headed Woodpecker
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Tree sparrow
Just a note , from yesterday afternoon after i refiled the Prospect feeders, the American Tree Sparrow returned thanks to Kathy T 's alert while 4 of us visited the feeders. It spent its time on the ground.
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Monday, February 10, 2025
very rare gull at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Short-billed Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus) (1)
- Reported Feb 09, 2025 17:28 by Doug Gochfeld
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6996104,-73.9973745&ll=40.6996104,-73.9973745
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212712120
- Comments: "**very rare. Apparent Short-billed Gull, but perhaps cannot definitively rule out Common Gull. Adult floating in the marina amidst Ring-billed Gulls for a few minutes from 17:35-17:42 or so, before I lost track of it. Small yellowish (light was failing) bill with some dark smudging towards the tip, smudgy streaking on the nape, neck, and head, giving a heavily cowled appearance. Apparently dark eye, but difficult to discern given light and distance. Mantle color significantly darker gray than the surrounding RBGUs, with a very broad white tertial crescent. Short-billed seems most likely based on extensively smudgy head pattern, apparently small bill (though there is overlap with Common), and darkness of mantle. It lines up well with the individual recently seen in Central Park (which has been identified as Short-billed via primary pattern), but with these views, there's no way to be sure of that. Low quality photos, and some digiscoped video."
- Reported Feb 09, 2025 17:28 by Doug Gochfeld
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6996104,-73.9973745&ll=40.6996104,-73.9973745
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212712120
- Comments: "**very rare. Apparent Short-billed Gull, but perhaps cannot definitively rule out Common Gull. Adult floating in the marina amidst Ring-billed Gulls for a few minutes from 17:35-17:42 or so, before I lost track of it. Small yellowish (light was failing) bill with some dark smudging towards the tip, smudgy streaking on the nape, neck, and head, giving a heavily cowled appearance. Apparently dark eye, but difficult to discern given light and distance. Mantle color significantly darker gray than the surrounding RBGUs, with a very broad white tertial crescent. Short-billed seems most likely based on extensively smudgy head pattern, apparently small bill (though there is overlap with Common), and darkness of mantle. It lines up well with the individual recently seen in Central Park (which has been identified as Short-billed via primary pattern), but with these views, there's no way to be sure of that. Low quality photos, and some digiscoped video."
" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Mars,moon and the twins
Castor and Pollux of Gemini with Mars and moon tonight
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Gwc rhwp update
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 08, 2025 13:30 by Paul Cohen
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212527453
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Near intersection of "battle" and "Hemlock " Avenue. Red color becoming more vivid daily. Photos included."
- Reported Feb 08, 2025 13:30 by Paul Cohen
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212527453
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Near intersection of "battle" and "Hemlock " Avenue. Red color becoming more vivid daily. Photos included."
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
--Anamika Mishra
--Anamika Mishra
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Reported ducks in Prospect lake
Reading recent reports, 2 Common Mergansers,2 ring-necked ducks, 6 hooded mergansers,and a single wood duck indicates spring migration ( or late winter) is in flux.
🦆
"
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
Friday, February 7, 2025
eBird Checklist - 7 Feb 2025 - Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - 38 species (+1 other taxa)
https://ebird.org/checklist/S212341632
Note continuing big 3 redhead wp,balt Oriole and Chipping Sparrow.
"
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
eBird Checklist - 7 Feb 2025 - Prospect Park - 41 species. Wickman chklist
https://ebird.org/checklist/S212293780
Note Common Merganser s
Note Common Merganser s
"
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert
Note two common mergansers in nearby locations.
"
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
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Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 5:31 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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*** Species Summary:
- Common Merganser (North American) (1 report)
- Common Merganser (1 report)
- Red-headed Woodpecker (1 report)
- Chipping Sparrow (1 report)
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Common Merganser (North American) (Mergus merganser americanus) (1)
- Reported Feb 06, 2025 15:21 by KZ F
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212226523
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "*hen with scaup and bufflehead off the north end, distant photos"
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (2)
- Reported Feb 06, 2025 14:53 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212228171
- Comments: "Pair of males flying over crescent water. Circled briefly, flying roughly west to east. Images acquired. Female absent or hidden when I visited Sylvan."
Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 06, 2025 14:53 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212228171
- Comments: "Continuing. Chattering."
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) (3)
- Reported Feb 06, 2025 14:53 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S212228171
- Comments: "Highest single count. Continuing."
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Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>
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" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"
--Carl Sagan