Just went into Alley Pond Park (Queens) on my lunch break and it is loaded with birds. I worked the area from the 76 Ave. parking lot east toward Cloverdale Blvd. From the street at the afore mentioned streets (where the earlier Yellow-throated had been), I heard a HOODED WARBLER, which I was able to track down easily enough inside the park. A while later, I found it again a bit to the west. At that point, it seemed to turn back to the east, so a Hooded singing a bit further west (and on the other side of the trail paralleling 76 Ave.) may have been a second individual. Unusual for this locale was an adult Broad-winged Hawk flying just over the tree tops. Otherwise, it was normal northeastern migrants and newly arrived breeders, but worth a mention that Black-throated Blue Warblers were especially numerous.
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