Brooklyn Bird Watch: November 24
Recently Discovered Bird Sanctuary in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bird Watch recently learned of an open meadow in Downtown Brooklyn between Kent and Flushing Avenues. This part of the Naval Cemetery Landscape right off the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has become a sanctuary for many migratory bird species. It’s a 1.7-acre urban green space that opened to the public in 2016.
A Brooklyn Free Lance writer from New Zealand, Jessy Edwards, wrote an article about the meadow for bkreader.com (http://bkreader.com). In the article Edwards featured an interview she did with the Bird Program Manager for Washington Square Park’s Ecoproject, Loyan Beausoleil, who was asked to do a “bird survey” of the Naval Cemetery Landscape.
Here are several excerpts from Edward’s article wherein she describes Beausoleil’s first reaction to the meadow.
The conservationist and Bird Program Manager for Washington Square Park’s Ecoproject headed out there on a Citibike from Manhattan, not knowing what to expect.