Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Orrin's 2/26 report

site = Prospect Park
date = 2/26/08
observers = Orrin Tilevitz
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron (1 sitting on frozen lower lullwater)
Canada Goose
Mute Swan (6 on lake)
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck (2, Three Sisters; 5, Duck Island)
Ruddy Duck
Cooper's Hawk (1, BBG)
Red-tailed Hawk (1 eating squirrel in tree near WI Cove; 1 Binen Water)
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker (poking in phragmites, east side of lake)
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse (on ground, east side of lake)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (1, BBG)
White-breasted Nuthatch
American Robin
European Starling
Fox Sparrow (2, usual place in BBG)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird (Many around lake)
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch (feeders)
House Sparrow