It's pretty cool to see a winter duck get all comfy on Prospect Lake.For the past week,since last Saturday, a handsome drake Common Merganser has been staying put in the middle of the lake, near Three Sisters Islands, where currently the only open water is. You would be able to pick out the mostly white bodied large duck,sometimes sitting on the ice. Wintertime doesn't always offer numbers but special visitors get the most of our attention..Sometimes, the adage applies: "the fewer the better"
Obeserver P.Dorosh
all Lake unless otherwise
COMMON MERGANSER ( drake present 1/23,1/22,1/21 since last report on Lake)
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 2 (Boathouse Pond)
Northern Shoveler easily 200
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk southwest Lookout Hill/west shore;also Terrace Bridge
Ring-billed Gull X lake
Herring Gull (American) X lake
Rock Pigeon X
American Coot easily 30
Mallard X
Feeders
(also present Mike Corzine, Scott Whittle)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Mourning Dove X
Downy Woodpecker 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling X
Fox Sparrow (Red) 1
White-throated Sparrow x
Dark-eyed Junco x
Northern Cardinal 1 ( also 3 Binnen Bridge)
Red-winged Blackbird 2
House Finch 6
