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site = Prospect Park
date = 4/20/08
observers = Peter Dorosh, Mary Eyster,Scott Whittle
Double-crested Cormorant (flyover boathouse)
Great Egret (Peninsula f/o)
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk (f/o Nethermead)
Merlin (perched near boathouse)
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker (vale; Nethermead bridge +1)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Lullwater)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (vale)
Northern Flicker (2)
Blue-headed Vireo (vale cashmere)
Blue Jay (vale )
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse (2 vale)
White-breasted Nuthatch (vale cashmere)
House Wren (vale cashmere)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Ambergill Ravine)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (~4)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (vale cashmere; Ambergill ravine +1)
Wood Thrush (wooded edge Nellie's lawn)
American Robin
Gray Catbird (2 lily pool creek)
European Starling
Northern Parula (Nethermead arches)
Yellow Warbler (Nethermead arches; Ambergill pool ravine +1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (common around Nethermead arches easily 15; Ambergill 7; )
Black-throated Green Warbler (reported by P Mazza, E Goldstein, K Toomey @Quaker ridge narrow path)
Pine Warbler (Ambergill , 2 Lullwater; male Lookout )
Prairie Warbler (ed Crowne @west shore lake)
Palm Warbler (~4 Binnen Pool)
Black-and-white Warbler (Vale )
Worm-eating Warbler (back slope bet Vale Cashmere pool and rose garden path)
Northern Waterthrush (strip bet upper and lower pools)
Chipping Sparrow (~30 bet east wood arch and boathouse)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow(rink cove)
White-throated Sparrow
date = 4/20/08
observers = Peter Dorosh, Mary Eyster,Scott Whittle
Double-crested Cormorant (flyover boathouse)
Great Egret (Peninsula f/o)
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk (f/o Nethermead)
Merlin (perched near boathouse)
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker (vale; Nethermead bridge +1)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Lullwater)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (vale)
Northern Flicker (2)
Blue-headed Vireo (vale cashmere)
Blue Jay (vale )
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse (2 vale)
White-breasted Nuthatch (vale cashmere)
House Wren (vale cashmere)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Ambergill Ravine)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (~4)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (vale cashmere; Ambergill ravine +1)
Wood Thrush (wooded edge Nellie's lawn)
American Robin
Gray Catbird (2 lily pool creek)
European Starling
Northern Parula (Nethermead arches)
Yellow Warbler (Nethermead arches; Ambergill pool ravine +1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (common around Nethermead arches easily 15; Ambergill 7; )
Black-throated Green Warbler (reported by P Mazza, E Goldstein, K Toomey @Quaker ridge narrow path)
Pine Warbler (Ambergill , 2 Lullwater; male Lookout )
Prairie Warbler (ed Crowne @west shore lake)
Palm Warbler (~4 Binnen Pool)
Black-and-white Warbler (Vale )
Worm-eating Warbler (back slope bet Vale Cashmere pool and rose garden path)
Northern Waterthrush (strip bet upper and lower pools)
Chipping Sparrow (~30 bet east wood arch and boathouse)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow(rink cove)
White-throated Sparrow
Eastern Towhee (male Vale; female Nethermead Arches)
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow
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Despite the gray skies + low temperatures compare with yesterday, the morning walk evolved into something amazing -bird wise-, with about 9 sps of warblers recorded, at least til midday (I missed the Prairie & Black-and-white, seen by Ed Crowne), but the one who made everyone running in PP, was the 1st for the season, a Worm-eating Warbler, seen around 8 am in the vale, foraging in the ground amid several WTSPs.
Other newcomers -at least for me- were House Wrens, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Yellow Warbler.
The numbers of Yellow-rumpeds were outstanding, and still some Pine, less Palm compared with yesterday.
Spring migration has arrived, and here is the list for today, 20 April 2008:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Common Merganser (3 flyover Nethermead)
Ruddy Duck (a few, still in the lake)
Common Loon (reported to me by E. Crowne, a flyover)
Great Blue Heron (1: Lake)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (1)
Red-tailed Hawk (1 seen carrying nesting material: Ravine/Midwood)
American Coot (1: lower Lullwater)
Laughing Gull (1: Lake)
Ring-billed Gull
(American) Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (1 f: by Boulder Bridge)
Northern Flicker
Blue-headed Vireo (4)
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow (flyovers Lake)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2: Upper Pool)
Barn Swallow (flyovers Lake)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch (1)
Brown Creeper (1)
Carolina Wren (1: Lily Pond)
House Wren (1: Vale; 2 Peninsula)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (1)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (~10)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (2 null)
American Robin
European Starling
Northern Parula (4)
Yellow Warbler (1 m: Ravine Ambergill)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (the most abundant)
Pine Warbler (4)
Palm Warbler (numerous, specially around Peninsula)
Worm-eating Warbler (1 Vale)
Northern Waterthrush (1 Upper Pool)
Eastern Towhee (1 m; 1 f)
Chipping Sparrow (large flock in the Ravine/Midwood; 1 Long Meadow)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (2 f)
American Goldfinch (3 Vale)
House Sparrow
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site = Prospect Park
date = 4/20/08
observers = Eddie Davis
Canada Goose
Mallard
Red-bellied Woodpecker (1 vale)
Northern Flicker (1 vale)
White-breasted Nuthatch (2, vale and long meadow)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (1 ravine)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (4-5, vale, lower pool)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1, lower pool)
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler (5, lower pool, vale)
Black-and-white Warbler (1 vale)
Eastern Towhee (3, ravine, vale)
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch (1 vale)
House Sparrow
