Prospect Park, 10/4/2020

Ruby-crowned kinglet, Prospect Park

Ruby-crowned kinglet, Prospect Park

Ruby-crowned kinglet, Prospect Park

A long birding walk this morning with my friend Roy. The ruby-crowned kinglet in the first three photos was somersaulting in a tree so intently that I was able to walk almost right up to it.

Carolina wren, Prospect Park

This Carolina wren was singing from a dead tree nearby. On the spot I couldn’t figure out what it was (I don’t see as well through the camera as the camera does), maybe since, given the angle, I could mostly only see its peach-colored breast, and when Roy saw a red-breasted nuthatch fly out from the same brake of trees, I thought it was the same bird. It wasn’t. I took the photo just below, of the nuthatch, from almost directly below where the nuthatch landed in an elm. (I had to look up “elm,” in a tree guide, just now, before finishing the preceding sentence, to make sure it was an elm. I’m even shakier on trees than birds. Birding as an endeavor is all about nouns.)

Red-breasted nuthatch, Prospect Park

I took this photo of a black-throated blue warbler yesterday, actually, at dusk. Just throwing it in here:

Black-throated blue warbler, Prospect Park

A couple of golden-crowned kinglets were maybe the prize sighting of today. Here’s one of them flashing his crown and then, in the third photograph below, nodding under the burden of it.

Golden-crowned kinglet, Prospect Park

Golden-crowned kinglet, Prospect Park

Golden-crowned kinglet, Prospect Park

There were half a dozen yellow-rumped warblers, but they were out over water where I couldn’t get too close.

Yellow-rumped warbler, Prospect Park

On our way out of the park, the pine warbler below posed for us liberally.

Pine warbler, Prospect Park

Pine warbler, Prospect Park