At 4pm this afternoon I observed a Connecticut Warbler in Prospect Park. Maude Brown and I were walking the dirt path on Lookout Hill that is just below the Butterfly Meadow (Center Drive and the Quaker Cemetery are just below the slope here) when we spotted a few warblers feeding in the understory. Flowering White Snakeroot is the dominant plant on the upper slope in this location and we were watching a Tennessee Warbler, 2 Common Yellowthroats and a Magnolia Warbler feeding in the flowers only about a foot off the ground. The Connecticut Warbler apparently was also feeding within this group and I spotted it when it hopped up on a wooden snow fence near the top of the slope. It dropped back into the flowers and we were unable to relocate it despite a long search. It is interesting to note that this is only a short distance from where one was reported by Rob Bate on Sunday, so perhaps the bird has just been circling the woodlands of Lookout Hill.
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