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Prothonotary Warbler was found in the week at Marine Park in Brooklyn. It hung around for a few days, so I decided to make it my first stop on Saturday morning. It performed amazingly well, regularly forcing me to take a step or two back to keep it in focus!
After that good start to the day I had a quick walk around the ponds at Jamaica Bay. The water level in the East Pond was very high so there was very little to see apart from
Barn and
Tree Swallows hawking over the water, a pair of
Peregrine screeching at each other and a flyby
Little Blue Heron.
The West Pond path has been rebuilt at last, but is not open yet. There weren't many birds here either, a single calling
Eastern Towhee was the highlight.
Prothonotary Warbler has to be one of the best looking warblers. The word means " a chief clerk of any of various courts of law" (Merriam-Webster). It is attached to this bird "with reference to the saffron colour of the robes worn by clerks to the Pope" (Oxford).
It spent the entire time gleaning tiny insects from the leaves of the plants growing around the rocks near the Nature Centre.
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