Propect Park 4/8--Pine & Palm Warblers

Finally felt like spring today, despite the overcast sky and the gloves on my hands.

Green tufts sprouting through the brown leaves.

Birds were easy to find today, especially robins. I'm sure my count is conservative. I found my first Pine Warblers of the season alongside the north bank of the Lullwater and my first Palm Warbler on the Peninsula, along with my first Swamp Sparrows and Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher. Winter ducks like ruddies and shovelers are still hanging around and one junco was digging through the leaves along the Lullwater. Phoebes, kingfishers, cormorants, Wood Duck--all in all a productive morning spent circling the watercourse.

Cormorants on Three Sisters

Number of species:    43
Canada Goose    51
Mute Swan    5
Wood Duck    1    Drake, Three Sisters
American Black Duck    1
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid)    1
Mallard    68
Northern Shoveler    29
Ruddy Duck    75
Double-crested Cormorant    5
Black-crowned Night-Heron    4    Three Sisters
Sharp-shinned Hawk    1
Red-tailed Hawk    1
American Coot    7
Ring-billed Gull    50
Herring Gull    37
Rock Pigeon    13
Mourning Dove    24
Belted Kingfisher    2
Red-bellied Woodpecker    2
Downy Woodpecker    2
Northern Flicker    4
Eastern Phoebe    6
Blue Jay    8
Tree Swallow    2
Barn Swallow    2
Black-capped Chickadee    8
White-breasted Nuthatch    2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    1    Peninsula
Ruby-crowned Kinglet    1    Lullwater
Hermit Thrush    6
American Robin    190
European Starling    85
Yellow-rumped Warbler    4
Pine Warbler    9
Palm Warbler    3
Eastern Towhee    1    Behind Pagoda
Song Sparrow    8
Swamp Sparrow    2    Peninsula
White-throated Sparrow    7
Dark-eyed Junco    1    Lullwater
Northern Cardinal    17
Red-winged Blackbird    19
Common Grackle    35
House Sparrow    26