The Day after Thanksgiving required some exercise walking to shed those extra pounds . I met up with Mary and we took a long birding walk through Prospect, ending at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
It looks like I am becoming fast friends with the ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.For the second straight day,I spotted the little warbler ,this time up slope between the Well house and Lamppost #249 (behind the giant Ginkoe tree grove). It was with a bunch of birds in the weedy ,mostly multi flora shrubs; I saw it gleaning insects from a tree creeping English Ivy.After getting Mary's attention on the bird, we saw it fly away towards a Sycamore Maple, chasing a Blue Jay ! Weird...
That spot was the hottest spot this raw ,cold ,windy morning, at the middle path the base for much our birding activity.Here's what we both saw there: 4 Woodpecker species, HAIRY,DOWNY,RED-BELLIED,YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER;CAROLINA WREN;WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH;RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET ;TUFTED TITMOUSE and BLUE JAY besides the rare warbler.
This day after, it wasn't much the concern with what birds there were but simply getting out instead of sleeping on the couch all day long as a stuffed potato ; a couch "potato" isn't something I am... I need to go birding.
Observers; Peter Dorosh , Mary Eyster
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 11/27/09
Number of species: 34
Mute Swan 6 lake
Wood Duck 1 drake lullwater
American Black Duck 3 --1 binnen pool;2 lake
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X lake
Ruddy Duck 75 lake
Pied-billed Grebe 5--2 lake;3 lullwater
Great Blue Heron 1 lake; flyaway
Red-tailed Hawk 2- over boathouse/lily pool
American Coot X lake
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Downy Woodpecker 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Hairy Woodpecker 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Blue Jay 3 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Black-capped Chickadee 1 boathouse
Tufted Titmouse 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Carolina Wren 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 terrace bridge
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
American Robin 2 boathouse
European Starling 100 boathouse
Orange-crowned Warbler 1 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Eastern Towhee 1 male boathouse slope path
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 20 --8 terrace bridge ;12 south middle Lookout Hill , path
Northern Cardinal X
House Sparrow X
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