Skulky, but with an exhibitionist tendency

Green-wood Cemetery, 17 Sept. 2022

(We briefly interrupt this birding missive to say I have a short story in this week’s New Yorker; please check it out! Now back to our regular programming . . . )

Connecticut warbler

Connecticut warblers are rare in Brooklyn and are usually quite skulky. This one, however, was making sorties into the open on Saturday in Green-Wood Cemetery. When I got home, the memory card in my camera malfunctioned when I plugged it into my laptop, and three and a quarter hours of birding were deleted. The next day, however, after three more hours of googling and hacking, I was able to claw most of the images back from the void.

Brown thrasher

Baltimore oriole and scarlet tanager

The Connecticut was almost upstaged by tanagers, orioles, and vireos gorging themselves on the fruit of a nearby kousa dogwood.

Scarlet tanager

Palm warbler

Red-eyed vireo