Hi All!
Same spot as yesterday's female sub adult there is now a male sub adult king
eider. Park at memorial, and it's the jetty just to your left when you come out
on the beach off the wooden ramp. brown bird up top, white underneath,
yellow/orange bill. Good luck if you go! Kind Regards-Kev
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* Apr. 2, 2021
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- Birds mentioned
Progne spp. (CUBAN/CARIBBEAN/SINALOA/GRAY-BREASTED MARTIN)+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Chimney Swift
DOVEKIE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland G
How do birders in Brooklyn communicate with each other rapidly? Whatsapp?
Twitter?
Bob Lewis
On Friday, April 2, 2021, 9:27:27 PM EDT, Doug Gochfeld
wrote:
This morning, the Progne was perched in a tree at the NW corner of Prospect
Park Lake with a dozen Tree Swallows and a singl
As far as I am aware, the martin has not yet put in an appearance this
morning. People are spread all around the lake searching, including where a
few swallows are perched at yesterday’s morning martin perch spot. Others
are also looking at other potential sunbathing perched around the park’s
water
Any updates so far from folks on the scene? I imagine there might be one or
two birders on their way.
Thanks
Mike Cooper
Ridge
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Progne being seen around Duck Island on the east side of the lake, now.
Good Luck
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Ryan Zucker reports that the martin is currently foraging by Duck Island near
the eastern end of the lake, likely visible from the southern shore or the
Peninsula. Good luck to those who chase, and be vigilant for any audio
recording or dropped DNA sample opportunities in addition to photo sessi
Any recent reports?
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> On Apr 3, 2021, at 9:04 AM, Doug Gochfeld wrote:
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> Progne being seen around Duck Island on the east side of the lake, now.
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I have a question.
Could this be just a juvenile male Purple Martin who is in the process of
turning into an adult?
Last year, I suspected that Purple Martin was nesting in Brooklyn, somewhere
close to Prospect park.
On April 28, two of them were seen at the peninsula (south part of the park)
a
Bird is putting on a show perched on the peninsula.
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> On Apr 3, 2021, at 8:30 AM, Mike wrote:
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> Any updates so far from folks on the scene? I imagine there might be one or
> two birders on their way.
> Thanks
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> Mike Cooper
> Ridge
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Birders from multiple states have joined in the observations of the
most-interesting-martin (Progne species), perhaps a Gray-breasted Martin, at
Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake; great thanks to D. Gochfeld for finding and
elucidating this very intriguing bird to this list and in eBird reports, as
Central Park NYC
Saturday April 3, 2021
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Northern Parula, Palm Warbler, Northern Rough-winged Swallow,
Golden-crowned Kinglet, Common Raven.
Canada Goose - 27
Northern Shoveler 64
Gadwall - 1 male Reservoir
Mallard - 20
Bufflehead - 8
H
The Martin was still being seen by Matthieu Benoit, Janet Labelle and I through
about 6:50 this evening. Toward the end of the day, it was foraging more over
the north side of the peninsula.
Good Birding,
Richard Aracil
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Doug Gochfeld and some others are now tentatively calling the Prospect Park
Lake Martin a Gray-breasted Martin, a species found in South and Central
Americas. eBird hasn't any sightings in the US listed for this species
even in southernmost Texas.
The Q train stop at Parkside is the closest stati
Gray-breasted Martin occurs in Mexico, for example along the Gulf Coast
within about 150 km of the US-MX border, so it's also in North America.
eBird also shows a historical record for Rio Grande City (Starr Co, TX) in
the late 19th Century, which appears to be the origin of Gray-breasted
Martin on
4/3/21 - Liberty Loop Trail, Wallkill River NWR, Pine Island/Sussex, NY/NJ
Time: 5pm to darkObserver: Andrew Block
several Canada Geese (plus 2 dead ones near each other, not good)8+ Mute
Swansseveral Wood Ducks4 American Wigeons7 American Black Ducksmany Mallards7
Blue-winged Tealsmany Green-
With all the excitement about the probable Gray-breasted Martin at Prospect
Park I haven't seen any posts about the Red-throated Loon there. Also had a
flock of Pine Siskins there. Both seen while watching the martin.
Andrew
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