Big Day in Prospect Park
Wow. Yesterday was a quite a day in Prospect Park. 96 species total (reported by several different observers) including 10 year firsts. I personally picked up two life birds (Yellow-throated Vireo and Golden-winged Warbler). I spent two hours in the Vale of Cashmere near the start of my route because I just couldn’t get myself to leave. New birds kept showing up. I don’t know if today will be as good, but I’m going to try.
If anyone local is interested the Brooklyn Bird Club has a free walk this morning, Saturday, starting from Grand Army Plaza at 7:00 A.M. Just show up with binoculars. Sorry for the late notice. Or if you can’t get to Brooklyn, other New York parks may also be good.
For the record, here’s yesterday’s cumulative list. I personally saw 63 of these:
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Green Heron
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Canada Goose
- Mute Swan
- Wood Duck
- Mallard
- Osprey
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Laughing Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Rock Pigeon
- Mourning Dove
- Chimney Swift
- Belted Kingfisher
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Least Flycatcher
- Eastern Phoebe
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Eastern Kingbird
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Warbling Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Tree Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- House Wren
- Winter Wren
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Veery
- Hermit Thrush
- Wood Thrush
- American Robin
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- European Starling
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Tennessee Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Yellow Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Magnolia Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Prairie Warbler
- Palm Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Black-and-white Warbler
- American Redstart
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Ovenbird
- Northern Waterthrush
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Common Yellowthroat
- Hooded Warbler
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Canada Warbler
- Scarlet Tanager
- Eastern Towhee
- Chipping Sparrow
- Savannah Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Northern Cardinal
- Indigo Bunting
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Orchard Oriole
- Baltimore Oriole
- Purple Finch
- House Finch
- Pine Siskin
- American Goldfinch
- House Sparrow
