Greenwood Cemetery BBC walk August 29th

Leader Matthew Wills

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From: Matthew Wills <>
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Gwc
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>

Hi, Peter

Big group: 35 people. List of boids below, a modest amount considering we were also looking at plants and other life forms: skippers, dragonflies, cicadas, numerous other insects; turtles (two species); American Bullfrog (heard); Groundhog, Grey Squirrel. 

No redcoats (above ground).

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, US
Aug 29, 2026 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Brooklyn Bird Club Late Summer Bounty Walk
29 species

Canada Goose  8
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  6
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  2
Spotted Sandpiper  2     Could have been the same bird following us from Valley Water to Sylvan Water
Laughing Gull  1
Osprey  1
Red-tailed Hawk  3     Minimum number. Two vocal juveniles at Crescent Water; one silent juvenile above Valley Water.
Belted Kingfisher  1     Female around Sylvan, seen and heard.
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
American Kestrel  2
Monk Parakeet  25     Leaving cemetery at 7 am like commuters.
Great Crested Flycatcher  1     Maybe two.
Eastern Warbling Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  3
European Starling  X
Gray Catbird  5
Brown Thrasher  2     Together in Dell Water's waterless depths.
Northern Mockingbird  6
American Robin  X
Cedar Waxwing  15
House Sparrow  X
House Finch  1
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  10
Northern Cardinal  1

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Look to tomorrow. Rest this afternoon." 

Snoopy, "Peanuts"

Birding Prospect Park on the Battle of Brooklyn’s Semisesquicentennial August 27

Providential rainbow before the walk from Long Meadow

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Leader Peter Dorosh 

Checklists ( courtesy of Campos and Abrams)

https://ebird.org/checklist/S387404707

https://ebird.org/checklist/S387489092?continue

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"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Look to tomorrow. Rest this afternoon." Prosb

Snoopy, "Peanuts"

The Maryland Monument that honors the Marylanders 400 colonists who saved General Washington's retreating army.

All photos below taken by Nicky Abrams

Black throated Blue Warbler

Black throated Green warbler

Ovenbird

For once a Blue is chasing a red ( coat). Great blue heron and Red tailed hawk over Wellhouse

August 15th Southbound Shorebirds Passing Through Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge August 15 Leader: Peter Dorosh Focus

Leader Peter Dorosh 

Trip report courtesy of Ross Kruse

https://ebird.org/tripreport/560509

Hilight Eared Grebe in breeding plumage on West Pond, a few Stilt Sandpipers on high water East Pond.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

--Henry Beston

Psithurism (pronounced SITH-ur-iz-um) is a noun that means the sound of the wind rustling through trees and leaves. It describes a soft, whispering, or sighing noise. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Origin and Pronunciation

Pronunciation: The initial "p" is silent, so it sounds like "sithurism".

Word origin: It comes from the ancient Greek word psithurisma, which means "whispering" or "to whisper". [1, 2, 3, 4]


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