Category: Prospect Park

Evening additions:

If you like your birds with a heaping teaspoon of sugar, the prothonotary warbler is the bird for you.

Also apparently somewhat rare, this early in the season, but less willing to vamp for the camera: a yellow-throated warbler.

In person this morning, I couldn’t see the bird just above clearly enough to identify it, and marked it down for either a ruby-throated kinglet or a pine warbler. But my photos, though not very good, show an eyering that suggests it’s a blue-headed vireo.

I was hoping to catch a second glimpse at, and maybe take a better photo of, a whip-poor-will that I saw last night. Alas, I couldn’t find it this morning. Here’s the messy fluffpile that I photographed last night, which on the word of far better birders than I is a whip-poor-will:

Evening additions: