site = Prospect Park
date = 3/29/08
observers = Peter Dorosh
Pied-billed Grebe (4; 3 NW corner lake; 1 Lake along Peninsula shore)
Great Blue Heron (3 sister islands)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (3 sister islands)
Canada Goose
Mute Swan (several Lake)
Mallard (lake)
Northern Shoveler (7 lake)
Northern Pintail (drake and hen along northwest shore,tree in water)
Ring-necked Duck (3 Peninsula "thumb"; drake and 2 hen)
Ruddy Duck (easily 50 Lake)
Red-tailed Hawk (flyover Quaker Cemetery)
American Coot (about 14 seen Lake)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker (LP 249 Well drive)
Hairy Woodpecker (On Magnolia tree lamppost 249 well drive; with J.Layton)
Northern Flicker (3 LP 249 Well drive)
Eastern Phoebe (numerous;easily 60; 40 Lullwater; 15 lake perimeter; 5 elsewhere)
American Robin (common; ~20 on Nethermead)
European Starling
Song Sparrow (Peninsula sumacs)
White-throated Sparrow (Peninsula sumacs)
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Note: Jerry Layton reports 5 species woodpeckers on Lookout Hill south slope, along Well drive: Hairy, Downy, Northern Flicker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Red-bellied Woodpecker; Eastern Phoebe omnipresent throughout park