August 24th GWC BBC tour

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change."

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web










   

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From: Rob Jett <rob.e.jett@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 4:54 PM
Subject: GWC tour
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>

Peter,

Overnight south winds made for a pretty slow day for migrants, although we did tally 4 species of warbler.

Attached is the group pic.

Cheers,

Rob

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Aug 24, 2025 8:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.1 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Brooklyn Bird Club walk.
32 species

Canada Goose  8
Mallard  5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  10
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  5
American Herring Gull  2
Turkey Vulture  2     Seen at the same time.
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
American Kestrel  2
Monk Parakeet  8
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Blue Jay  3
European Starling  12
Gray Catbird  4
Northern Mockingbird  6
American Robin  20
House Sparrow  5
American Goldfinch  1
Chipping Sparrow  1
Baltimore Oriole  1
Ovenbird  1
Blue-winged Warbler  1
American Redstart  2
Yellow Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  6

Jamaica Bay Refuge August 9

Leader Tom Stephenson

https://ebird.org/tripreport/401362

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LHC29wpdVT9stc2EA  Sameer's photos

Hi Peter,

It was a very beautiful, and mostly bugless day, yesterday. The East Pond is starting to clear up, although we were restricted by the poison ivy to the very southern end..  It's an early date for migration but we still had good looks at most of the shorebirds on the list.

The West Pond had very large shorebird flocks but the viewing options are basically none...  sometime we could think of trying to improve maybe with some bushwhacking...  

Sameer may have sent you the list, but just in case, here's what we saw for your site.

Best regards,

Tom

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Glossy Ibis

Canada Goose

Mute Swan

American Black Duck

Mallard

Ruddy Duck

Osprey

Peregrine Falcon

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Willet

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Short-billed Dowitcher

Laughing Gull

Herring Gull

Forster's Tern

Black Skimmer

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Willow Flycatcher

Eastern Kingbird

Common Raven

Purple Martin

Tree Swallow

Bank Swallow

Barn Swallow

Carolina Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Yellow Warbler

American Redstart

Common Yellowthroat

Song Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Red-winged Blackbird

Boat-tailed Grackle

Baltimore Oriole

House Finch

American Goldfinch

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird