From Orrin:
(Brooklyn Botanic Garden)
Very productive from just south of the native plant garden to Eastern Parkway; the birds presumably came in there overnight. Not much in the rest of the garden, except for white-throated sparrows and some other birds that I've been seeing for a few days. The results of an hour's worth of birding:
Mallard duck
American kestrel
Red-bellied woodpecker
Northern flicker
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Black-throated green warbler
Common yellowthroat (many, both sexes, including immature males)
Tennessee warbler
Northern Parula
Black-capped chickadee
Red-eyed vireo
Catbird
Northern Cardinal
Bluejay
House finch
White-throated sparrow (many, all over the place)
House sparrow
Song sparrow
American robin
Eastern phoebe
European starling
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From Peter :
Its a little puzzling that with the northwest winds last night that it would be tough birding from my impression of this day. Of course, warbler numbers start to tail off after September, only getting the noted usual suspects and late stragglers.What I was hoping for was more sparrow numbers.But that didn't happened. Sort of a puzzle.I guess they all went westward, maybe air fare to New York City was just too expensive. :)>
I did get some notable sightings today despite being very busy at work .I took glimpses here and there , and found among my better birds 2 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, and FIELD SPARROW in three very different locations.
Very early this morning on my short stint behind the rink, I saw two smallish ducks in the South Lullwater. AS they got closer to the rink, my patience waning, they turned into hen GREEN-WINGED TEALS among the many Mallards.
Mid morning, I spotted GRAY-CHEEKED Thrush under the Boulder Bridge, on the horse trail, after I finished planting the nearby hillside.
And last, I found a good sparrow spot along the south lakeshore, the mainland just across the Duck Island.Its a weedy spot laden with Heath Asters, Smartweed, grasses,dried Burdock and other sparrow attractive plant stuff (like mugwort...auuggh!) After work , I strolled through here and saw at least 15 sparrows. Among them, a gorgeous FIELD SPARROW with a beaut of an eye ring, stayed within the cover of the shoreline grasses and mugwort. While watching it, a SPOTTED SANDPIPER rushed by it in the field view of my bins! You should check this spot out if you happen to go by it. The location is marked by three close-knit Gray Birches,a 11 foot x 6 concrete slab floor, and a large low cut tree trunk.Here you also get great vantages of the lake.
Now, where the heck are those sparrow numbers???
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 10/8/09
Number of species: 31
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 3 lake
American Black Duck 2 west island
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler 90 est Lake
Green-winged Teal 2 south lullwater; hens
Double-crested Cormorant 1 west island
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 duck island
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1 south east lakeside
Ring-billed Gull X
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3 peninsula
Eastern Phoebe 1
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Boulder bridge
American Robin X
Gray Catbird 4 peninsula sumacs
European Starling X
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 south lakeside
Palm Warbler 2 rink
American Redstart 1 ricks place
Ovenbird 1 ricks place
Common Yellowthroat 4--2 peninsula sumacs, 2 rink
Field Sparrow 1 south east lakeside
Song Sparrow 7 --3 rink;4 south east lakeside
Swamp Sparrow 2--1 rink, 1 south east lakeside
White-throated Sparrow 9 south lakeside xcross from 3 sisters
Northern Cardinal 1
American Goldfinch 2 south east lakeside
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)
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From Eni Falci:
Hi Peter-
Stayed out of the park yesterday- too much chance of falling trees.
Today walked from Vale to Midwood, Pools, Ravine to Audubon Ctr. with some good activity.
Best site was at the top of the Vale -3 juvenile yellow-bellied sapsuckers on two trees with black throated blue males and females feeding on same tree trunk as 2 sapsuckers.
Most wide spread and numerous bird today was the Black throated blue warbler.
Eni
3 juvenile yellow-bellied sapsuckers Vale
downy woodpecker
flicker
red-bellied woodpecker pools
black throated blue warblers male & female
northern parula warbler numerous Vale & Midwood
black throated green warbler Vale
magnolia warbler Vale
black & white warbler Midwood & Vale
common yellowthroat females midwood
1 ovenbird ravine
1 redstart warbler Binnen Bridge area
4 house wren midwood and behind Audubon Ctr
white throated sparrow numerous
2 song sparrows Horse Path behind Audubon Ctr
House Sparrows
1 Swainson's Thrush
1 Hermit Thrush pools
5 Wood Ducks 3 male/2female Pool Island
Mallards numerous
Catbirds
Robins
Cardinals Midwood
Jays
Eastern Phoebe Pools
