Brooklyn Bridge Park has been playing host to four species of over-wintering warbler recently.
Most notably (by historical standards), the Northern Waterthrush has become fairly reliable on pier 6. This bird arrived at least as early as November, but went mostly undetected through the CBC season. Still present today, this is one of only a couple of February records for the species in the state. The Ovenbird wintering on pier 1 is less surprising given their recent NYC winter track record. An Orange-crowned Warbler at the pier 5 uplands this weekend could have been a new individual, or perhaps the bird that was at pier 3 until mid-December reappearing after going undetected for a month and a half. A single Myrtle Warbler is also spending the winter on and around pier 1. Meanwhile, the ever-impressive evening gull roost has been strong in quantity, though not species diversity, this winter. Numbers have been as high as over 5,000 Ring-billed Gulls (regularly) and on one night nearly 1,000 Herring Gulls between the marina roost and the pier 1 pilings roost. A returning adult Lesser Black-backed Gull roosts at the pier 1 pilings most nights. Numbers of gulls roosting here tend to be highest in cold and/or windy conditions. I saw a young Iceland Gull across the river around the Staten Island Ferry terminal on Sunday (viewing from the Brooklyn side), but no white-winged gulls have been detected in the roost as of yet this winter. Good Urban Birding! -Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -------------------------------------------- Douglas Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. Field Guides Birding Tours https://www.instagram.com/douglasgochfeld/ https://fieldguides.com/guides/doug-gochfeld/ https://www.outbirding.com -- 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/ --
