Site = Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Date = 21 March 2008
Observer = Rafael Campos R.
As Park Slope was under the spell of strong winds, the blue sky was like a magnet to take my first Spring walk thru PP.
The most abundant sps was American Robin, but still in good numbers White-throated Sparrows & Dark-eyed Juncos.
At the feeders, the 2 sps Nuthatches could be seen very well.
A small number of both sps of Kinglets were seen foraging behind the Music Pagoda.
But the surprise, and 1st time for the year, was 1 male Brown-headed Cowbird seen with some Robins at the Nethermead.
The birds recorded today are:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Northern Shoveler (~8, Lake)
Ring-necked Duck (~4, Upper Pool)
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe (Lake)
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
(American) Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1 Peninsula)
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker (1 Peninsula)
Eastern Phoebe (Rick's Place, Lullwater, & edge of Quaker Hill)
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush (1, along the Lullwater trail)
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Fox Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
