From Rafael:
As the morning temperatures started to getting higher (around 50 F), I took a walk around PP from 9 am thru midday.My best bird was 1 male Eastern Towhee near the Breezy Hill feeders.Most of the water is still frozen, and several hundreds of Ring-billed Gulls were the most numerous around the lake. Still the 2 males Common Mergansers in the lake.Also a note of the past cold weather, was a lonely Great Blue Heron in the frozen Upper Pool.
Birds recorded 08 February 2009:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Great Blue Heron
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
Eastern Towhee
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Purple Finch (1 female)
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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Brooklyn is good birding: Rafa Campos R
