(Photo credit - Steve Nanz)

Prospect Park in a haze

A late morning walk, still feeling dizzy from the stellate nerve block. A little too hot for birds and birding but there were still some things singing and feeding.
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Prospect Park, 5/15/2004
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Great Egret (In front of Nature Center.)
Red-tailed Hawk (3 adults, 1 chick. One eating a chipmunk.)
Chimney Swift
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Above bridle path behind Pagoda.)
Eastern Kingbird (Pagoda pond.)
White-eyed Vireo (Ravine.)
Red-eyed Vireo (Several.)
House Wren (Ravine.)
Veery (Ravine.)
Wood Thrush (A few singing in Midwood & Ravine.)
Gray Catbird
Northern Parula (Several.)
Yellow Warbler (2, Ravine. 1 Pagoda.)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Ravine.)
Magnolia Warbler (Several.)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Fairly common.)
Black-throated Green Warbler (1, near Rick's Place. 1, Ravine.)
Blackburnian Warbler (Ravine.)
Prairie Warbler (Ravine.)
Blackpoll Warbler (Common to abundant.)
Black-and-white Warbler (Several.)
American Redstart (A few.)
Ovenbird (4 or 5.)
Northern Waterthrush (1, Ravine. 2, Payne Hill.)
Common Yellowthroat (Several.)
Scarlet Tanager (Female, Ravine.)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Several.)
Swamp Sparrow (Rick's Place.)
White-throated Sparrow
Common Grackle (Abundant.)
Baltimore Oriole (Several.)

Other resident species seen (or heard):
Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker (Calling in Midwood.), Blue Jay, American Crow, Tufted Titmouse, American Robin, European Starling, Song Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, House Sparrow