Leader :Peter Dorosh
site = Prospect Park
date = 5/3/08
observers = Brooklyn Bird Club, Leader Peter Dorosh
Great Egret
Green Heron (Lullwater; Lily Pond)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Rink)
Turkey Vulture (f/o Lullwater)
Wood Duck (drake Upper Pool)
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk (2 f/o)
Herring Gull (f/o)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift (f/o)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (2 summit Lookout Hill; and one elsewhere)
Belted Kingfisher (2)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Great Crested Flycatcher (Nellies Lawn)
Eastern Kingbird (summit Lookout Hill)
Blue-headed Vireo (~8)
Yellow-throated Vireo (Lullwater near rink)
Red-eyed Vireo (Lookout Hill)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow (Upper Pool; f/o's)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2 Upper Pool)
Barn Swallow (f/o's)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse (Vale)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Butterfly Meadow)
Carolina Wren (heard )
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (4)
Veery (ricks pl; Vale;elsewhere)
Hermit Thrush (2)
Wood Thrush (Midwood; Lullwater)
American Robin
Gray Catbird (abundant)
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing (7 Lily Pool)
Blue-winged Warbler (Lookout Hill summit; Rocky pass; ~6)
Tennessee Warbler (Rocky pass)
Nashville Warbler (Lookout Hill summit; ~4)
Northern Parula (10+)
Yellow Warbler (~7)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (1 south Midwood;1 Rocky pass)
Magnolia Warbler (sw woods; ~2)
Cape May Warbler (Lullwater; A.Barat, J Zinn and BBC group;low bird)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (ambergill creek)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (common)
Black-throated Green Warbler (~7)
Hooded Warbler(Vale; Battle Pass east; Ravine)
Blackburnian Warbler (Upper Pool; Lookout Hill Butterfly Meadow)
Prairie Warbler (~6)
Palm Warbler (Lower Pool; ~3)
Black-and-white Warbler (numerous; ~25 seen; many heard)
American Redstart (Ambergill creek ; plus 1)
Worm-eating Warbler (Lookout Hill summit; SW Quaker cemetery)
Ovenbird (common)
Northern Waterthrush (lullwater; Lower Pool)
Common Yellowthroat (~5)
Yellow-breasted Chat (Terrace Bride north west corner brush;1st report T. Preston)
Scarlet Tanager (Battle pass west; s.midwood;Lookout Hill west approach)
Eastern Towhee (2 midwood; plus more )
Chipping Sparrow (300 + Nellies Lawn; many elsewhere)
Savannah Sparrow (Peninsula meadow)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow (Lily Pool; Rink ; Lullwater)
White-throated Sparrow (common)
White-crowned Sparrow (4 Rink near Lincoln statue;Peninsula meadow)
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak (immature male Rink near Lincoln Statue)
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole (2 above Lily Pool obs deck; 2 Vale)
Baltimore Oriole (common ~25)
Purple Finch (fem Butterfly Meadow)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
