DATE: 4/12/2008
LOCATION: Prospect Park
OBSERVERS: Linnaean Society members
REPORTED BY: Rob Jett
Common Loon (Fly over.)
Double-crested Cormorant (4, fly over.)
Great Blue Heron (3, fly over.)
Great Egret (4, flying together over park.)
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck (Male & female, Upper Pool.)
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck (1, Lower Pool.)
Ruddy Duck
Red-shouldered Hawk (Calling & flying over Lullwater into Lookout Hill.)
Red-tailed Hawk (2.)
American Kestrel (Perched on Bald Cypress at Terrace Bridge.)
American Coot
Laughing Gull (2, Prospect Lake.)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher (Lullwater.)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (5.)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (3 together in Lullwater.)
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe (Several.)
Blue-headed Vireo (1, between Vale of Cashmere & Rose Garden.)
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow (1, flying above Ravine.)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper (2.)
Carolina Wren (2.)
Winter Wren (1, Midwood.)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1, Midwood. 1, Endale Bridge.)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Common.)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Common.)
Hermit Thrush (~20-30.)
American Robin
Gray Catbird (2, Lily Pond.)
Northern Mockingbird (1, Meadowport Arch.)
European Starling
Northern Parula (Singing in hornbeam tree at edge of Peninsula Meadow.)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Fairly common.)
Pine Warbler (Common.)
Palm Warbler (Common.)
Louisiana Waterthrush (1, edge of Ambergill in Ravine.)
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee (Fairly common.)
Chipping Sparrow (Fairly common.)
Field Sparrow (1, Payne Hill. 1 Midwood. 2, behind Nature Center.)
Savannah Sparrow (4, Payne Hill. 2, Nethermead Meadow. 2, behind Nature Center.)
Fox Sparrow (1, singing at Vale of Cashmere.)
Song Sparrow (Common.)
Swamp Sparrow (Fairly common.)
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird (1, Vale of Cashmere.)
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Jett Comment: One unusual, early sighting was of a Northern Parula. It was singing and feeding among a flock of Yellow-rumped Warblers on the Peninsula Meadow, near the edge of the lake. The flock was foraging within a hophornbeam tree that has sprouted long, dangling, yellow catkins. According to "Bull's Birds of New York State", this would be an extreme inland date. April 27th 1994 is listed as the previous date.
=site = Prospect Park
date = 4/12/08
observers = Eddie Davis (alone and with Audubon Bird Walk group)
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck (2 mixed pair, upper pool)
Mallard
Ruddy Duck
Red-tailed Hawk (2 in tree near binnen bridge)
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher (1 peninsula thumb)
Downy Woodpecker (2)
Northern Flicker (6 widespread)
Eastern Phoebe (2 lullwater)
Blue Jay (3 midwood, lily pond)
Black-capped Chickadee (2 lullwater)
White-breasted Nuthatch (2 lullwater)
Brown Creeper (1 midwood)
Winter Wren (1 lullwater)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (4 or 5 widespread)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (many)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1 peninsula—lullwater side)
Hermit Thrush (5 vale, midwood, lullwater)
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing (2 terrace bridge south)
Northern Parula (1 wellhouse drive at base of peninsula (heard and then seen))
Yellow-rumped Warbler (5-6 lullwater and peninsula)
Pine Warbler (3 terrace bridge south, lullwater cove)
Palm Warbler (extremely abundant—midwood, lullwater, large flock in peninsula meadow, lower pool, etc)
Eastern Towhee 80% (1 vale)
Chipping Sparrow (5 small flock near boathouse)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow (2 lullwater cove and peninsula thumb)
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco (4 long meadow, boathouse)
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (1 female inspecting nests inside the lamps at the terrace bridge)
House Sparrow
Blue-winged Teal (mixed pair at lullwater cove, then later at the upper pool (probably the same birds))
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