site: Prospect Park
date: 06 April 2008
time: 0800-1230 hrs
observers: Rafael Campos, Stanley Greenberg, Gilbert Schrank
Cold, windy but the birding was superb!!!
With the great hope after the nice day yesterday, that some migrants would take home, at least for some hours, I headed to PP. The large group of birders led by PK, was seeing by the Vale, watching a lonely Rusty Blackbird by Nellie's Lawn. I joined forces with GS & SG a little bit later.
The highlight today was a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher by the Upper Pool + ~10 Pine Warblers, 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler.
At the lake, the surprise was 2 Laughing Gulls, several Tree Swallows, and among them 1 Barn Swallow.
The list:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck (2 m, 4 f: Pools)
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret (1 flyover Lake)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (2: 3 sisters island)
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin (1 flyover Pools; 1 perched in a ginko tree: Peninsula)
American Coot
Laughing Gull (2: Lake)
Ring-billed Gull
(American) Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull (1: Lake)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (1f: Ravine)
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe (abundant)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow (10+: Lake)
Barn Swallow (1: Lake)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper (3)
Carolina Wren (heard only)
Winter Wren (1: Lullwater trail; 1: Rick's Place)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (numerous)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1 m: Pools)
Hermit Thrush (2)
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird (1: Nethermead)
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1: Peninsula)
Pine Warbler (4: Pools; 3 Lullwater Trail; 2: Peninsula)
Chipping Sparrow (1: Nellie's Lawn)
Fox Sparrow (1: Vale)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow (1: Peninsula)
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird (1 m: Nellie's Lawn)
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (2 m, 1 f: Nethermead)
House Sparrow
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Brooklyn is good birding: Rafa Campos
