As if the "bird gods" intended it, divine as it is, Prospect Park's first of season KENTUCKY WARBLER graced the new planting area for member volunteers celebrating and concluding the Brooklyn Bird Club's Centennial of 2009 in the southern Vale of Cashmere . Before starting the green project ( with plants bought for by last years Birdathon ) at 10 am, the Kentucky Warbler (KEWA) made circuitous rounds of the Vale's southern wooded slopes early this morning . Its presence complicated my efforts to place new plants down out of respect for birders watching the KEWA on the actual planting spot! Rafael Campos texted me of the rare find while I was driving towards the site with native plants in the pickup. The call went out via my text messages and to this blog, and some lucky birders saw the bird well ( and singing loud enough for me to hear very well) before it made way for the northern woods. Many thanks to Rafael for posting me the news.
And as if the Kentucky Warbler wasn't enough for birders,some Brooklyn Bird Club volunteers and members on the scene also saw in the Vale or the nearby Rose Garden SUMMER TANAGER & OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
Something for us to remember, one for the ages, how a bird like Kentucky Warbler might have known all along ;)> that today was a BIG Centennial Planting day for the BBC. Perfect timing, good --no-- make that terrific birding for sure.
--Kingsboider ( one of the green thumbs)
More about the bird--->> http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Kentucky_Warbler/id
Note : multiple observers
R.Campos, E.Crowne, P.Dorosh, K.Randall, E.Harold,T.Stephenson,D.Dyer, more m.obs?
Summer Tanager ( J.Zinn, A Baratz., T.Stephenson, who else ?)
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From Rafael Campos :
22 May 2010
A nice and rare surprise today at PP. First, the 1st 30 minutes from GAP to the Vale, very quiet, not much, but in the Vale, after seeing only 2 sps of warblers (Magnolia & Parula), a very loud call, made my head turn, and here is my FOS male Kentucky Warbler!!!
I text-mess P.D., and also attracted by the calls, was Ed Crowne. Together we re-located the bird, and after some minutes Tom Stepehson, "Rusty", and Peter Dorosh arrived. All together we saw it, before he moved to the N end of the Vale. Later I stopped by again, but no signs of him.
The rest of my walk was quiet, quiet. The activity was only by AMROs. But also I saw one of the adults RTHAs carrying a Gray Squirrel to the nest, near Nellie's Lawn. I scouted the edge of the Nethermead before I came back via Midwood, and stopping at Rick's Place. No much, Is the Spring migration over?
The birds of today:
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
(American) Herring Gull (1 fly over)
Rock (Common) Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift (fly overs)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (1 m: Vale)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher (1, perched: Vale)
Eastern Wood Pewee (1, hawking insects: Vale)
Eastern Kingbird (1, carrying nesting material: Lily Pond)
Warbling Vireo (heard only)
Red-eyed Vireo (1: Vale)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Barn Swallow (1-2: Nethermead)
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Wren (2: Midwood)
House Wren
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European (Common) Starling
Cedar Waxwing (pools)
Northern Parula (vale)
Magnolia (numerous, Vale & elsewhere)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (1 f: Vale)
Blackpoll Warbler (1 m: pools)
Ovenbird (1: Rick's Place)
Kentucky Warbler (1 m: Vale)
Common Yellowthroat (1 m: Vale)
Canada Warbler (1 f: Vale)
Summer Tanager (1 f: Vale)
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1: Rick's Place)
Red-winged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole (2-3 males)
House Finch (1)
House Sparrow
Brooklyn is great birding: Rafael Campos R.
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From Rusty Harold
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Empidonax sp.
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
