Bookend walks in Prospect Park, Brooklyn this morning/afternoon yielded a total of 74 species including 15 species of warblers and a smattering of new arrivals. Most activity was around Lookout Hill, the Peninsula, the Ravine and the Pools. General highlights below.
Good Birding, Sean Sime Brooklyn, NY 12 Wood Duck 3 Ruddy Duck 40 Chimney Swift 2 American Coot 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 6 Laughing Gull 2 Green Heron 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 Belted Kingfisher 2 American Kestrel 2 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 5 Warbling Vireo 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 1 Winter Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 4 Purple Finch 2 Ovenbird 1 Worm-eating Warbler 1 Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush 8 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 1 Hooded Warbler 1 Northern Parula 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 3 Palm Warbler (Yellow) 2 Pine Warbler 60 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Prairie Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
