{"id":1000008,"date":"2006-05-06T04:20:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T09:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/05\/06\/big-day-in-prospect-park\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T18:54:25","slug":"big-day-in-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2006\/05\/06\/big-day-in-prospect-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Day in Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Yesterday was a quite a day in Prospect Park. 96 species total (reported by several different observers) including 10 year firsts. I personally picked up two life birds (Yellow-throated Vireo and Golden-winged Warbler). I spent two hours in the Vale of Cashmere near the start of my route because I just couldn&#8217;t get myself to leave. New birds kept showing up. I don&#8217;t know if today will be as good, but I&#8217;m going to try.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If anyone local is interested the Brooklyn Bird Club has a free walk this morning, Saturday, starting from Grand Army Plaza at 7:00 A.M. Just show up with binoculars.  Sorry for the late notice. Or if you can&#8217;t get to Brooklyn, other New York parks may also be good. <\/p>\n<p>For the record, here&#8217;s yesterday&#8217;s cumulative list. I personally saw 63 of these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  \t Double-crested Cormorant<\/li>\n<li>Great Blue Heron<\/li>\n<li>Great Egret<\/li>\n<li>Green Heron<\/li>\n<li>Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/li>\n<li>Canada Goose<\/li>\n<li>Mute Swan<\/li>\n<li>Wood Duck<\/li>\n<li>Mallard<\/li>\n<li>Osprey<\/li>\n<li>Red-tailed Hawk<\/li>\n<li>Solitary Sandpiper<\/li>\n<li>Spotted Sandpiper<\/li>\n<li>Laughing Gull<\/li>\n<li>Ring-billed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Herring Gull<\/li>\n<li>Great Black-backed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Rock Pigeon<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove<\/li>\n<li>Chimney Swift<\/li>\n<li>Belted Kingfisher<\/li>\n<li>Red-bellied Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li>Downy Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li>Northern Flicker<\/li>\n<li>Least Flycatcher <\/li>\n<li>Eastern Phoebe<\/li>\n<li>Great Crested Flycatcher <\/li>\n<li>Eastern Kingbird<\/li>\n<li>Blue-headed Vireo<\/li>\n<li>Yellow-throated Vireo <\/li>\n<li>Warbling Vireo<\/li>\n<li>Red-eyed Vireo<\/li>\n<li>Blue Jay<\/li>\n<li>American Crow<\/li>\n<li>Tree Swallow<\/li>\n<li>Barn Swallow<\/li>\n<li>Black-capped Chickadee<\/li>\n<li>Tufted Titmouse<\/li>\n<li>Red-breasted Nuthatch <\/li>\n<li>White-breasted Nuthatch<\/li>\n<li>House Wren<\/li>\n<li>Winter Wren <\/li>\n<li>Ruby-crowned Kinglet<\/li>\n<li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher<\/li>\n<li>Veery<\/li>\n<li>Hermit Thrush<\/li>\n<li>Wood Thrush<\/li>\n<li>American Robin<\/li>\n<li>Gray Catbird<\/li>\n<li>Northern Mockingbird<\/li>\n<li>European Starling<\/li>\n<li>Blue-winged Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Golden-winged Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Nashville Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Northern Parula<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Chestnut-sided Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Magnolia Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Black-throated Blue Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Yellow-rumped Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Black-throated Green Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Blackburnian Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Pine Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Prairie Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Palm Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Blackpoll Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Black-and-white Warbler<\/li>\n<li>American Redstart<\/li>\n<li>Worm-eating Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Ovenbird<\/li>\n<li>Northern Waterthrush<\/li>\n<li>Louisiana Waterthrush<\/li>\n<li>Common Yellowthroat<\/li>\n<li>Hooded Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Wilson&#8217;s Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Canada Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Scarlet Tanager<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Towhee<\/li>\n<li>Chipping Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Savannah Sparrow <\/li>\n<li>Song Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Swamp Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>White-throated Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>White-crowned Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cardinal<\/li>\n<li>Indigo Bunting <\/li>\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird<\/li>\n<li>Common Grackle<\/li>\n<li>Orchard Oriole<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore Oriole<\/li>\n<li>Purple Finch <\/li>\n<li>House Finch<\/li>\n<li>Pine Siskin <\/li>\n<li>American Goldfinch<\/li>\n<li>House Sparrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Yesterday was a quite a day in Prospect Park. 96 species total (reported by several different observers) including 10 year firsts. I personally picked up two life birds (Yellow-throated Vireo and Golden-winged Warbler). I spent two hours in the Vale of Cashmere near the start of my route because I just couldn&#8217;t get myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}