My checklist from today. It was outstanding. Never seen so many flycatchers around.
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<ebird-checklist@cornell.edu>Date: Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:40 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Sep 1, 2017
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ryangoldberg@gmail.comProspect Park, Kings, New York, US
Sep 1, 2017 7:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.25 mile(s)
Comments: Fallout-like conditions after cold front and NW 15-20 mph overnight winds. Sunny, 60s. Huge flights of flycatchers and redstarts and magnolia warblers. Wellhouse, Lookout, Quaker cemetery, Breeze Hill, Lullwater, Midwood, Peninsula meadow.
56 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 6
Mute Swan 10
Wood Duck 3
Mallard 4
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1
Mourning Dove 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Across from the Boathouse.
Chimney Swift 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Olive-sided Flycatcher 2 North of Midwood in dead oak tree and one above Maryland Monument in dead tree. Two different birds seen minutes apart. One had a much duskier vest than the other. Block-headed and thick-billed.
Eastern Wood-Pewee 9 Huge flycatcher flight in fallout-like conditions. Seen all over the park, often two and three at a time. Regularly calling too.
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Yellow in throat and belly, broad white wing bars. Quaker Cemetery.
Willow Flycatcher 1 Seen and heard near Lamppost 249. Sang: rrrrippp, rising sharply at the end. Drab olive overall and no eye-ring like a pair of nearby Least Flycatchers. Huge flycatcher flight overnight -- a minimum of seven species seen on the day.
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher) 3 Huge flycatcher flight. Seen all along Wellhouse Drive in early morning.
Least Flycatcher 3 Huge flycatcher flight in fallout-like conditions. Two seen together on Wellhouse Drive in early morning and another later on at the base of the MD Monument.
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Warbling Vireo 4
Red-eyed Vireo 8
Blue Jay 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Veery 8
American Robin 12
Gray Catbird 3
European Starling 1
Cedar Waxwing 5
Ovenbird 3
Northern Waterthrush 3
Black-and-white Warbler 17
Nashville Warbler 2
Mourning Warbler 1 First-winter bird. Yellow from throat to vent, broken white eye-ring, heavy-billed with pale lower mandible (compared to nearby common yellowthroat), light gray on the head and brown-green on the back. Inside the fenced area due south of the Maryland Monument.
Common Yellowthroat 14
American Redstart 45
Cape May Warbler 2 Together in Peninsula meadow.
Northern Parula 1
Magnolia Warbler 15
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 5
Black-throated Blue Warbler 5
Pine Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 5
Canada Warbler 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Baltimore Oriole 3
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 1
American Goldfinch 25
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http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38939589 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (
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