Hilights of today plus a Saturday report include Prospect Park sightings CERULEAN WARBLER, 2 KENTUCKY WARBLERs, HOODED WARBLER and Greenwood Cemetery BLUE GROSBEAK (saturday ) .
The Cerulean warbler was behind the Pools , at times between the Upper and Lower Pools, often singing , spotted by Shane Blodgett and Doug Gochfeld who reported also the Kentucky warbler behind the Lower Pool; on the latter i gather its on the other side of the path. A second Kentucky Warbler was heard singing in the Midwood by Ed Crowne and Phil Payne.
Some first seaon birds like Eastern Kingbird, and Great Crested Flycatcher are making wave.
A Hooded warbler was reported by Mike Zablocky at Ricks Place.
Here are the lists sent me by today's field observers
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From Joe Canale:
Hey Peter. Joe Canale here. I thought I should put the word out that I had a male Blue Grosbeak in Greenwood Saturday afternoon. It was perched on a tombstone on a hill above Sylvan Waters doing that tail twitching/displaying thing that they do. Also, the same day there was a Rusty Blackbird along the south shore of SW. Yesterday, Sunday, I had RB Grosbeak and Wood Thrush in the cemetery and a Scarlet Tanager, male, at the Vale in PP as well as a Warbling Vireo feeding low on the Peninsula. Don't think these were reported in other sightings.
Take care and good birding,
Joe
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2 ebird listserve postings
Just got a call from Doug Gochfeld, who is in Prospect Park. There is a singing Cerulean Warbler in the Ravine. It is feeding in the trees behind the Lower Pool and heading north, towards the red-tailed nest. In addition, the Yellow-throated Warbler is still present on Lookout Hill.Good birding,Rob The City Birder Webloghttp://citybirder.blogspot.com
...and if that's not enough, Doug just called to report a Kentucky Warbler is now at the area behind the Lower Pool. That is the fenced area on the east side of the pond.Rob The City Birder Webloghttp://citybirder.blogspot.com
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From Rafael:
DATE: 27 April 2009
OBSERVERS: Rafael Campos & Hillary Salk
Great late morning, with several nice warblers, like: Blackburnian (by the pools), Hooded (Vale), Common Yellowthroat, Northern Waterthrush.
Missed today Cerulean, Yellow-throated & Kentucky.
No signs of the Townsend's Warbler.
Also seen today Rose-breasted Grosbeak & Veery.
THE LIST:
Canada Goose
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck: 1 m, upper pool
Double-crested Cormorant: 10 flew over the pools
Great Blue Heron
Solitary Sandpiper: 1, upper pool
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift: 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Kingbird: 2, pools
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch: 2
Brown Creeper: 1, pools
House Wren: 2, Rick's Place
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery: 1, Vale
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush: 1, Vale
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler: 2, pools
Prairie Warbler:1,Vale. 1, Lookout Hill
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Waterthrush: 1, Vale
Common Yellowthroat: 1 f, Vale
Hooded Warbler: 1m, Vale
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow: 1, Nethermead
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak: 1 m, Lookout Hill. 1 f, pools
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole: 1 f, pools
Baltimore Oriole: 1 m, Vale
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Brooklyn is good birding!!!
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From Doug:
Sent: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 2:13 pm
Subject: eBird Report - Prospect Park , 4/27/09
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 4/27/09
Notes: Birded with Ed Crowne and Phil Pane a bit. They had another Kentucky Warbler singing in the Midwood before I ran into them. Rafael Campos had a Blackburnian at the Upper Pool that I just missed (seen before and after I was there). Wind mostly from the East.
Sunny, clear, very warm day.
Number of species: 63
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 4 2 Nests
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler 1
Ring-necked Duck 1 Upper Pool
Common Loon 4 Separate flyovers (6:04, 6:18, 6:50, 6:56 AM)
Double-crested Cormorant 48 Loose group of 47 flying over Nethermead. 1
on Lake.
Great Blue Heron 1 Pools
Great Egret 1 Duck Island
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 --2 Duck Island, 1 Three Sisters
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Laughing Gull 9
Herring Gull X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove 15
Monk Parakeet 2 Heard from Lookout early (calling from the 16th Street
area). At least 2.
Belted Kingfisher 2 Labella Cove, Lake
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 5
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Kingbird 1 Pools
Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Ravine, Dongan Oak Woods
Blue-headed Vireo 12
Blue Jay X
Black-capped Chickadee 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Ravine, Lookout
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Hermit Thrush 2 Together on Lookout
Wood Thrush 3 Seen at Lower Pool, Heard in Midwood and Quaker Cemetery.
American Robin 100
Gray Catbird 9
European Starling X
Blue-winged Warbler 1 Butterfly Meadow
Nashville Warbler 3 Midwood (2), Vale
Northern Parula 25 Numerous and very vocal
Yellow Warbler 9 Mostly at Pools
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 175
Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Pools
Yellow-throated Warbler 1 South slope of Lookout Hill
Prairie Warbler 2 Quaker Cemetery, Upper Pool. One at Lookout Hill later
was probably the same one from Quaker, otherwise there were 3.
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1 Pools
Cerulean Warbler 1 Lower Pool/Rocky Pass/Ravine stream. Singing male.
Great looks a couple of times.
Black-and-white Warbler 10
Ovenbird 3 Lookout (1), Ravine (2)
Northern Waterthrush 3 South Side of Lake, Upper Pool, Lower Pool
Kentucky Warbler 1 Male at Lower Pool
Hooded Warbler 1 Singing male in Vale
Eastern Towhee 20
Chipping Sparrow 15 Butterfly Meadow (8), south side of Lake (7)
Field Sparrow 1 South side of Lake (with White-throated Sparrows!) early
morning
Swamp Sparrow 2 Vale, South side of Lake
White-throated Sparrow 150
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1 South side of Lake with Chipping
Sparrows
Northern Cardinal X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Orchard Oriole 1 Upper Pool
Baltimore Oriole 2 Lookout, Ravine
American Goldfinch 15
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
