Hi All
From my quick walk starting at Grand Army Plaza to the Lincoln Rd exit.
Notable was a mystery warbler that appeared to be a Mourning Warbler
except with a dark gray head (not cleanly-hooded, as if in some sort
of transitional plumage) and massive, very prominent eye-arcs
(seemingly even more prominent than in the illustrations I've found of
MacGillivrays, and pics on the net) fluttering up repeatedly to feed
on a small tree on the edge of the Vale pond. I don't want to call it
a MacGillivray's because I am not at all familiar with this species,
but I have no idea what else it could have been except an aberrant
Mourning.
Just south of the vale a Merlin hunted from next to the RTH nest, mu
first in many months, and overhead I had a group of 6, and then
another of 5, Common Nighthawk. I also later saw 2 more swooping low
over the Lullwater, but these could have been from the second group I
saw.
Also, there are still some swifts about.
Tomorrow could be good...
Cheers
Adam
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Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:09 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Sep 12, 2011
Prospect Park, Kings, US-NY
Sep 12, 2011 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 kilometer(s)
Comments: clear skies, almost no wind, dusk
17 species (+1 other taxa)
Merlin (Falco columbarius) 1
Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) 1
Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) X
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) X
Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) 11
Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) 6
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 1
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 1
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) X
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) X
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) X
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 1
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) 3
warbler sp. (Parulinae sp.) 1
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) X
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) X
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) X
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