site = Prospect Park date = 3/26/08 observers = Orrin Tilevitz Pied-billed Grebe (2 or 3) Double-crested Cormorant (1, lake) Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Mute Swan Mallard Northern Shoveler (a few) Ring-necked Duck (pair off West Island) Ruddy Duck American Coot Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch (Heard) Carolina Wren (A few in and around wellhouse) Golden-crowned Kinglet (1 near feeders) American Robin Northern Mockingbird (BBG) European Starling Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird (West Island Cove) Common Grackle House Sparrow Blue-Winged Teal (Pair swimming down lullwater off peninsula ; early AM, first report) 1 Unidentified Raptor, lullwater east sidewalk
A newsboard for reporting bird sightings, happenings & announcements in north Brooklyn and the 3 main central north Brooklyn green regions : historic Prospect Park, Brooklyn Botanic Garden , & Greenwood Cemetery.A Brooklyn Bird Club service www.brooklynbirdclub.org Note: short posts of rare sightings /activity alerts are sent by cell phone.If the species name(s)/locale is first in the title heading, it's a cellphone text message afield.Also note: Brooklyn Conservation posts.