Such a delight this morning when for this early fall songbird migration date i tallied 9 species warblers on Lookout Hill, in and around the Butterfly meadow.
It started at Arleen's pine grove when I spotted a Canada Warbler, which led to sightings of Blue-winged,Yellow, and American Redstart Warblers. Later I followed the flock to the sun - splashed northwest corner of the meadow where two trees-Box-elder and Elm --was an active site at the road edge.There I watched a road hugging Prairie Warbler below and the reappearance of the Blue-winged.House Wren,Least Flycatcher, and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher filled in the rest of the bird diversity at this hot corner.
Post Butterfly meadow, along the hillside road towards the Maryland Monument, a low enough Tennessee Warbler appeared while Louisiana Waterthrush and Ovenbird together walked the path.
This minimal onrush stemmed i think from a northern-west wind yesterday ( i have to check the weather report) when this wind benefits birders as birds ride this most favorable fall wind.Hopefully i will alert all whenever this weather report occurs in the fall migration future...
Dog days ( when the star Sirius --the "dog star" nipping Orion's heels-- breaks the eastern celestial horizon) are here and so are the warblers...
list
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 8/8/09
Number of species: 34
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 8 (Lullwater; 5 juv)
Mallard X
Ruddy Duck 1 (Lake;male)
Laughing Gull X
Herring Gull (American) X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Downy Woodpecker 2
Least Flycatcher 1 (Butterfly meadow)
Eastern Kingbird 2 (west side Nethermead Bridge;also obs E Taylor)
Warbling Vireo 1 (west side Nethermead Bridge;also obs E Taylor)
Red-eyed Vireo 1 (west side Nethermead Bridge;also obs E Taylor)
Blue Jay 1 (Binnen Water)
Barn Swallow 18 (Lullwater bridge)
Tufted Titmouse 1 (Lookout HIll high meadow)
House Wren 1 (Butterfly meadow)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 (Butterfly meadow)
American Robin 75
Gray Catbird 3
European Starling X
Blue-winged Warbler 1 (Butterfly meadow;male)
Tennessee Warbler 1 ( Lookout path from meadow to Maryland Monument)
Yellow Warbler 1 (Butterfly meadow)
Prairie Warbler 1 (Butterfly meadow;male)
Black-and-white Warbler 3 (Butterfly meadow)
American Redstart 2 (Butterfly meadow)
Ovenbird 1 (Butterfly meadow)
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 ( Lookout path from meadow to Maryland Monument)
Canada Warbler 2 (Butterfly meadow)
Northern Cardinal 3
Common Grackle 2
American Goldfinch X (Butterfly meadow;feeding on sunflowers)
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)
(Kingsboider post note: the wind direction on August 7th was west /northwest.)
Wind:
Wind Speed 5 mph (WNW)
Max Wind Speed 15 mph
Max Gust Speed 23 mph
source: Wunderground weather website. See side menue for link )
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Date: 08 August 2009
Observers: Rafael Campos, Laura Gomez-Zeledon
Around 9:30 am, we heard this unusual bird call, and for seconds RC though it was the kestrels who every day use the church tower to perch. But the sounds where more close, and we looked into the oak tree in the backyard, and there, perched for a very short period of time was 1 male Belted Kingfisher!!!
What a nice surprise for our backyard, and it is our 1st seen in Park Place.
Brooklyn is good birding: Rafa Campos R.
