A hooded warbler (male), a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a summer tanager, and a prothonotary warbler, from recent weeks in Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

More here: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/into-spring

#birds #brooklynbirding #birdphotography #hoodedwarbler #yellowbelliedsapsucker #summertanager #prothonotarywarbler #prospectpark #greenwoodcemetery #nikond500 #sigma150600

A cedar wawxing, European starlings, a golden-crowned kinglet, and a black-throated green warbler on 16 December 2023 in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/christmas-bird-count

#birds #birding #birdphotography #greenwoodcemetery #brooklynbirding
#nikonD500 #sigma150600 #christmasbirdcount

Visitors, expected and unexpected: an American woodcock, a purple gallinule, a black-chinned hummingbird, and a Northern parula in NYC this fall.

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/autumn-in-retrospect

#birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #randallsisland #brooklynbirding
#nikonD500 #sigma150600 #americanwoodcock #purplegallinule #blackchinnedhummingbird #northernparula

A ruby-throated hummingbird, a chestnut-sided warbler, a downy woodpecker, and a red-tailed hawk in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 20–22 September 2023

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/before-the-storm

#birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding
#nikonD500 #sigma150600 #rubythroatedhummingbird #chestnutsidedwarbler #commongartersnake #downywoodpecker #redtailedhawk

A yellow warbler, a chestnut-sided warbler, a common garter snake, and a blackpoll warbler in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 14–16 September 2023.

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/la-rentree-9c8

#birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding
#nikonD500 #sigma150600 #yellowwarbler #chestnutsidedwarbler #commongartersnake #blackpollwarbler

A house sparrow, a combative pair of Northern flickers, a palm warbler, and a common yellowthroat in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 11 and 12 September 2023

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/regulars

#birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding
#nikonD500 #sigma150600 #housesparrow #northernflicker #palmwarbler #commonyellowthroat

Late summer in retrospect: a chestnut-sided warbler, a little blue heron sampling some frog, a Northern mockingbird doing a 'wing flash,' and a Baltimore oriole, in Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY, 22 August to 2 September 2023.

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/late-summer-in-retrospect

#birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding
#nikonD500
#sigma150600 #chestnutsidedwarbler #littleblueheron #northernmockingbird #baltimoreoriole

An Acadian flycatcher, a double-crested cormorant gulping down a still-flailing fish, four green heron fledglings, and a house wren fledgling in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 22 June and 4 July 2023

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/independence

#acadianflycatcher #doublecrestedcormorant #greenheron #housewren #birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding #nikonD500 #sigma150600

Magnolia warbler, wood ducklings, raccoon, and ruby-throated hummingbirds in Prospect Park, Brooklyn

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/departures

#magnoliawarbler @woodduck #raccoon #rubythroatedhummingbird #birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding #nikonD500 #sigma150600

A bay-breasted warbler, an osprey, an immature yellow-crowned night heron, and two cedar waxwings kissing, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 21, 22, and 24 May 2023

For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/love-and-consequences

#baybreastedwarbler #osprey #yellowcrownednightheron #cedarwaxwing #birds #birding #birdphotography #prospectpark #brooklynbirding #nikonD500 #sigma150600