This morning's Brooklyn Bird Club walk got off to a slow but decent start before some good stuff appeared mid morning.
Before the likely north winds predicted this eve/ overnight,some birds took an early leave and provided some satisfactory moments for the group. At the south Midwood between the bridle path and Elephant Hill rising path, a WORM-EATING WARBLER delighted the group as the bird flew from surrounding hanging dead leaves for food. Along with it , a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER followed it . BLUE-WINGED WARBLER below on the slope there as well as Butterfly Meadow plus an adult male BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER on Lookout Hill's upper meadow joined in for 12 species warblers seen totally. GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER, EASTERN PEWEE, LEAST FLYCATCHER formed a flycatcher group along with a secondhand report of YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER reported by Scott Whittle by the Boulder Bridge. After I left the group,I received a text message from friends they saw 2 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS on Lookout Hill .
List
Brooklyn Bird club walk; Leader Peter Dorosh
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 8/30/09
Number of species: 43
Mallard X
Double-crested Cormorant 1 f/o Vale
Red-tailed Hawk 1 Nellie's lawn ;in Elizabeth's Tulip
Herring Gull X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Lookout Hill
Chimney Swift X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 south midwood, in jewelweed
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1 elephant hill/midwood
Northern Flicker 1 elephant hill
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 midwood
Least Flycatcher 1 midwood
Empidonax sp. X
Great Crested Flycatcher 1 lookout hill
Warbling Vireo 2 butterfly meadow
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Black-capped Chickadee 1
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 elephant hill
American Robin X
Gray Catbird 2
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 22 vale
Blue-winged Warbler 2 south midwood;butterfly meadow
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 elephant hill;lookout hill
Magnolia Warbler 2 vale; north zoo
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 north midwood
Blackburnian Warbler 1 ad male; lookout hill upper meadow
Black-and-white Warbler 4
American Redstart 6
Worm-eating Warbler 1 elephant hill
Ovenbird 2 north zoo; north midwood
Northern Waterthrush 1 vale
Common Yellowthroat 1 vale
Canada Warbler 1 north midwood
Song Sparrow 1 vale
Northern Cardinal 3
Common Grackle X
Baltimore Oriole 6 vale mostly
American Goldfinch 5 butterfly meadow
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)
Latest wind alert: Northwest winds overnite...good day for monday birding
http://www.wunderground.com./cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?hourly=1&query=11218&yday=242&weekday=Monday
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From Janet and Alan:
During the evening a Peregrine flew low over the lake.
