At Owl’s Head Park on the Narrows this morning the migrant showing
was scanty, but included an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, adding to this
spring’s unusual number of reports, as well as a group of three male
INDIGO BUNTINGS.
On Saturday 4/28 at Calvert Vaux Park (Coney Island Creek, aka Dreier-
An UPLAND SANDPIPER was on the Long Meadow ball fields at dawn this
morning. It was just after 6:00, and still dim on the field, with the
sun not yet over the tree line. I was walking up the middle of the
field when the bird flushed (or perhaps it was just coming down) from
the direction of
11/6/11
An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was in the mixed gull flock at the south
end of the Owl’s Head Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn this morning (photographed.) Likely the same bird that has
frequented the spot for the last two winters, if it follows pattern
it may persist i
A couple of noteworthy birds were at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn
today. A female BLUE GROSEBEAK came up out of the high grasses in the
corner along the Six Diamonds ball fields fence near Shore Parkway.
Later, an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was on the baseball fields
in the same area.
A BLACK TERN was over the Lake in Prospect Park this morning around
8:45. I picked it up while scanning a fairly dense flock of swallows
(mostly Barn) shortly after arriving at the shore near the base or
west end of the Peninsula. My first thought was “what’s wrong with
that Laughing Gull?”
