more 8/27: Alex Wilson report

Note: Shane Blodgett reported Tennessee & Mourning warblers.

 

Location:     Prospect Park

Observation date:     8/27/08

Number of species:     65

Canada Goose     X

Mute Swan     X

Wood Duck     5     (Upper Pool.)

Mallard     X

Double-crested Cormorant     X

Great Blue Heron     1

Green Heron     1

Black-crowned Night-Heron     1

Red-tailed Hawk     X

American Kestrel     1     (Flyover, Lily Pond.)

Spotted Sandpiper     X

Laughing Gull     10     (Flyover, Long Meadow, PM; few gulls on Lake.)

Ring-billed Gull     2

Rock Pigeon     X

Mourning Dove     X

Chimney Swift     X

Ruby-throated Hummingbird     2

Belted Kingfisher     1

Red-bellied Woodpecker     X

Downy Woodpecker     X

Hairy Woodpecker     X

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     X

Eastern Wood-Pewee     3

Least Flycatcher     3     (Other Unidentified Empids included several Willow/Alder types and 3 Acadian candidates.) 

Eastern Phoebe     2     (Including a tailless bird, upper Lullwater.)

Great Crested Flycatcher     1     (1 or 2, upper Lookout Hill.)

Eastern Kingbird     X     (Numbers down.)

Warbling Vireo     X

Red-eyed Vireo     X

Blue Jay     X

American Crow     X

Black-capped Chickadee     X

Tufted Titmouse     X

White-breasted Nuthatch     X

Carolina Wren     X

House Wren     X     (Including fledgelings on Lookout.)

Veery     1     (Lullwater cove.)

American Robin     X

Gray Catbird     X

Northern Mockingbird     X

European Starling     X

Cedar Waxwing     X

Northern Parula     1     (Lookout summit.)

Yellow Warbler     1     (Peninsula.)

Chestnut-sided Warbler     1     (Lullwater cove.)

Magnolia Warbler     7

Black-throated Blue Warbler     8

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     1     (Upper Lullwater.)

Prairie Warbler     1     (1 or 2, Peninsula.)

Black-and-white Warbler     15

American Redstart     50     (Most common migrant on the day.)

Ovenbird     3

Northern Waterthrush     7

Common Yellowthroat     7

Wilson's Warbler     1     (1 or 2, 1st fall male, Lily Pond & below Terrace Bridge.)

Canada Warbler     5

Scarlet Tanager     1     (Lookout Hill.)

Song Sparrow     X

Northern Cardinal     X

Rose-breasted Grosbeak     2     (Lookout Hill.)

Red-winged Blackbird     X

Common Grackle     X

Baltimore Oriole     X

American Goldfinch     X

House Sparrow     X

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