I've been away in the North Fork vacationing since last thursday (NO internet). Below are reports during my mini vacation received for the local area --KB
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Report 7/20
Hi Peter,
Yesterday Wed at about 6:30 PM I saw a Great-crested Flycatcher at the
Lookout Hill meadow and may have heard a second one with it. Also Barn
Swallows, Laughing Gulls, and one male Ruddy Duck.
John
John S. Ascher, Ph.D.
Bee Database Project Manager
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
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Common Terns on Piers One & Four
Posted by: "Larry Zirlin"
Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:32 am (PDT)
There were at least 4 Common Terns on Piers One & Four of Brooklyn Bridge Park today. I first saw one on Pier Four plunge diving (unsuccessfully, no surprise there). When I got to Pier One I heard a tern cry and saw it alight onto a piling. I assumed it was the same one I'd just seen--it stayed long enough for me to walk out to the end of the pier and observe it flying from piling to piling. It then flew off toward Manhattan.
However, when I returned to Pier Four on my way home, there were 3 more terns swooping around off the end of the incomplete pier. One eventually flew right right above before going back out over the river. I have to say, the East River seems an unlikely source of food for terns, so I was very surprised to see them there. Common Tern makes the 60th species recorded on Pier One.
Larry Zirlin
http://birdsandwords-larryz.blogspot.com/
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From Orrin Greenwood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery this morning.
Northern flicker
Red-bellied woodpecker (heard)
Chipping sparrow (many, incl. juv.)
Black-crowned night heron
Double-crested cormorant
Great egret
Great blue heron
Northern mockingbird
Northern cardinal
House sparrow
European starling
American robin
Monk parakeet
Barn swallow
Also, possibly a green heron (heard)
7/24
A two-hour walk this morning in Green-Wood Cemetery yielded 23 species, not bad for a mid-summer walk in what is not Brooklyn's best bird habitat. Species are in the order first seen, roughly from south to north:
Eastern wood pewee (heard)
Gray catbird
Northern mockingbird (many)
Black-capped chickadee
Chimney swift
Chipping sparrow (many)
American robin (many)
Laughing gull (flyover)
Tufted titmouse (heard)
House wren
European starling
White-breasted nuthatch (heard)
Northern flicker
Northern cardinal
House sparrow (many)
Monk parakeet
Great egret (2)
Rock dove
Song sparrow
Carolina wren (2 heard)
Mourning dove
Great blue heron
Black-crowned night heron
