{"id":1000582,"date":"2007-04-24T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/04\/24\/migration-in-full-swing-in-prospect-park\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T12:21:03","slug":"migration-in-full-swing-in-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/04\/24\/migration-in-full-swing-in-prospect-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration in Full Swing in Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migration has kicked into full gear. Over 70 species a day are being seen in local parks. This morning I got to Prospect Park a little before 6:30, and started at the North end. Some days the Vale of Cashmere is empty, but some days it&#8217;s packed with birds. Today it was packed. Ruby-crowned Kinglets were practically dripping out of the trees.  I was hoping for the Summer Tanager and Orchard Oriole found yesterday, but no such luck. I did see four warblers and several year birds though. This Northern Waterthrush was the first:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/northernwaterthrush.JPG' alt='Northern Waterthrush' width='640' height='342' \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This squirrel was risking death:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/hawkandsquirrel.JPG' alt='Red-tailed Hawk looking at squirrel on tree trunk' width='640' height='510'\/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of Swamp Sparrows were feeding in the muck:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/swampsparrow.JPG' alt='Swamp Sparrow' width='640' height='389' \/><\/p>\n<p>My basic rule for birding the Vale on a busy day is that I don&#8217;t leave it until I&#8217;ve managed to make two complete circles without spotting any new species. Today that rule meant I spent two and half hours there and pickjed up more than 30 species:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Double-crested Cormorant<\/li>\n<li>Canada Goose<\/li>\n<li>Mallard<\/li>\n<li>Red-tailed Hawk<\/li>\n<li>American Kestrel<\/li>\n<li>Ring-billed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Rock Pigeon<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove<\/li>\n<li>Red-bellied Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li>Downy Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li>Northern Flicker<\/li>\n<li>Blue-headed Vireo <\/li>\n<li>Blue Jay<\/li>\n<li>Black-capped Chickadee<\/li>\n<li>Tufted Titmouse<\/li>\n<li>House Wren 75%<\/li>\n<li>Ruby-crowned Kinglet<\/li>\n<li>Hermit Thrush <\/li>\n<li>American Robin<\/li>\n<li>Gray Catbird <\/li>\n<li>European Starling<\/li>\n<li>Yellow-rumped Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Palm Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Black-and-white Warbler <\/li>\n<li>Northern Waterthrush <\/li>\n<li>Eastern Towhee <\/li>\n<li>Swamp Sparrow <\/li>\n<li>White-throated Sparrow <\/li>\n<li>Dark-eyed Junco (Rose Garden)<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cardinal<\/li>\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird<\/li>\n<li>Brown-headed Cowbird<\/li>\n<li>House Sparrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately since I couldn&#8217;t tear myself away from the Vale, I missed some other excellent spots yesterday like Rick&#8217;s Place, where a (possibly <em>the<\/em>) Summer Tanager was seen again, and the pool, where a Prothonotary Warbler showed up, and Lookout Hill, where a Yellow-throated Vireo (a potential life bird) was seen. Maybe tomorrow I&#8217;ll start at the other end of the park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migration has kicked into full gear. Over 70 species a day are being seen in local parks. This morning I got to Prospect Park a little before 6:30, and started at the North end. Some days the Vale of Cashmere is empty, but some days it&#8217;s packed with birds. Today it was packed. Ruby-crowned Kinglets [&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-1000582","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\/1000582","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=1000582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}