A late evening report placed yesterday's Cerulean Warbler above the zoo compost yard along the path above the dongan oak eagle monument. Hopefully it'll stay out of the construction zone of the Vale cashmere. If it's still around.
There's been a variety of warblers reported in this general area there stretching towards the north midwood including bluewinged, Nashville etc though high up in that mature tree forest..
Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) (1)
- Reported Apr 28, 2026 17:14 by Z L
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S3
- Comments: "Was listening to variations of blue winged warbler fart songs for a while when when I started hearing a new buzzy rhythm that had 4-6 syllables but sounded farther away ending higher pitched than the blue winged somewhere in the zoo. I had noticed a diverse set of warblers were singing south of the fence so I camped out to try to learn the songs better and see if I was picking up something new to me. Just as I was heading out I heard a loud smacky chip call I could only relate to a warbler and I figured probably a redstart. Looked up past a yellow rumped and bam! There was a Cerulean male with a clean white throat, blueish back wings and head, with white coverts, under tail white dipped black, lighter superciulium, bill not too long, and neck band with clean white belly. Missed the chance to take a binoculars shot and didn’t have a camera. It flew off in the direction of the zoo. I theorize with it being slightly colder this afternoon the zoo water/mulch heat mix was a good combo for many of these birds. FOY and State bird! Also was wearing a light blue hoodie so I think it was fate."
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- Reported Apr 28, 2026 17:14 by Z L
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S3
- Comments: "Was listening to variations of blue winged warbler fart songs for a while when when I started hearing a new buzzy rhythm that had 4-6 syllables but sounded farther away ending higher pitched than the blue winged somewhere in the zoo. I had noticed a diverse set of warblers were singing south of the fence so I camped out to try to learn the songs better and see if I was picking up something new to me. Just as I was heading out I heard a loud smacky chip call I could only relate to a warbler and I figured probably a redstart. Looked up past a yellow rumped and bam! There was a Cerulean male with a clean white throat, blueish back wings and head, with white coverts, under tail white dipped black, lighter superciulium, bill not too long, and neck band with clean white belly. Missed the chance to take a binoculars shot and didn’t have a camera. It flew off in the direction of the zoo. I theorize with it being slightly colder this afternoon the zoo water/mulch heat mix was a good combo for many of these birds. FOY and State bird! Also was wearing a light blue hoodie so I think it was fate."
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