Site = Prospect Park date = 3/4/08 observers = Orrin Tilevitz Pied-billed Grebe (3, lake) Great Blue Heron (1, 3 Sisters Island) Canada Goose Mute Swan (4, lake) American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck (1 drake, behind West Island) Ruddy Duck Red-tailed Hawk (1, east side of lake) American Coot Ring-billed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren American Robin Cedar Waxwing (1 flock, BBG rock garden) Song Sparrow (many singing) White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco (1, West Island cove) Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle House Sparrow
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.