This Friday to Monday is Cornell's Great Backyard Bird Census. From minimal time to much more, you can submit your observations from any locale, be it your backyard, a local park or a refuge. See this link for more details
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
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Today's sightings in Prospect Park:
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 2/10/09
Number of species: 30
Observer :peter
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
American Black Duck 10 lake
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler 125 lake
Bufflehead 1 drake on lake
Common Merganser 3 --all drakes on Lake
Ruddy Duck 17 Lake
Red-tailed Hawk 2 --one juv West Island; one adult Elephant Hill
American Coot X Three Sisters
Ring-billed Gull 1000
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Feeders
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2-- Cleft Ridge Span
Downy Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 1 garage
American Crow 3-- flyover Lookout Hill
Black-capped Chickadee X feeder
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 feeders
White-breasted Nuthatch 4-- 2 feeders; 2 long meadow
Brown Creeper 1 feeders
European Starling X
Song Sparrow 1 feeders
White-throated Sparrow X
Dark-eyed Junco 2 feeders
Northern Cardinal X
House Sparrow X
his report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
