Monday, April 7, 2008

4/7 reports

site = Prospect Park
date = 4/7/08
observers = Eddie Davis
Pied-billed Grebe (2 lake)
Double-crested Cormorant (1 west island perch)
Great Egret (1 rink cove)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (1 duck island)
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck (1 drake, lower pool)
Mallard
Northern Pintail (2;mixed pair, west shore)
Ring-necked Duck (8; 4 upper pool + 4 lower pool)
Ruddy Duck
Red-tailed Hawk (1 quaker cemetery flyover)
Merlin (1 fighting with Blue Jay at peninsula meadow)
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull (many, lake)
Herring Gull (many, lake)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher (1 male, lily pond)
Northern Flicker (3, peninsula, quaker cemetery, lullwater)
Eastern Phoebe (many, widespread)
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow (3, lake)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse (3, peninsula, upper pool)
White-breasted Nuthatch (1 upper pool)
Brown Creeper (2, behind music pagoda, quaker cemetery)
Carolina Wren (nethermead side of lullwater bridge)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (2 nethermead side of lullwater bridge, upper pool)
American Robin
Gray Catbird (1 west shore of lake)
European Starling
Pine Warbler (3, lullwater, west shore of lake, peninsula)
Song Sparrow (abundant)
Swamp Sparrow (2 lower pool, lake across from wellhouse)
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (1 feeding with starlings on Nethermead (across from Binnen Water))
House Sparrow
 
 
site = Prospect Park
date = 4/7/08
observers = Peter Dorosh
Pied-billed Grebe (2 Rink; 1 Lake)
Great Blue Heron (three sister islands)
Great Egret (duck island)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (2 duck island)
Canada Goose (scattered, easily 65)
Mute Swan (3 lake, 2 west shore)
American Black Duck (west island)
Mallard
Northern Shoveler (2 west island)
Northern Pintail (drake and hen Lake near Wellhouse; later at usual west shore spot)
Ruddy Duck (47 West Island; ~35 Lake)
Red-tailed Hawk (flying low thru area South Lakeside)
American Kestrel (flew unto tree perch, west shore Lake)
American Coot (lake,appears decreased #s)
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (south lakeside near Duck island)
Northern Flicker (Terrace Bridge; south lakeside)
Eastern Phoebe (7 south lakeside;~8 south Lookout Hill slopes)
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow (3 f/o Duck Island)
Black-capped Chickadee (Terrace Br)
White-breasted Nuthatch (Terrace Br)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (south lakeside;LP 249 LH SW slope)
Hermit Thrush (Rocky Pass (Ravine))
American Robin (common)
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1 West Island cove)
Pine Warbler (4; south Lakeside;West Island; 2 Terrace Br)
Song Sparrow (2 south lakeside)
White-throated Sparrow (west island cove at least several)
Northern Cardinal (2 west island;plus 1)
Red-winged Blackbird (west island)
Common Grackle (fairly common , mostly west island)
House Sparrow