From Alex Wilson:
Begin forwarded message:
> Location: Prospect Park
> Observation date: 7/5/09
> Number of species: 51
>
> Canada Goose 200
> Mute Swan 9
> Wood Duck 4 (Upper Pool.)
> Mallard 30
> Ring-necked Duck 1 (Unusual summering drake continues at
> Upper Pool, PM.)
> Great Blue Heron 1
> Great Egret 1 (Flyover.)
> Green Heron 2
> Black-crowned Night-Heron 5
> Osprey 1 (Flyover, Upper Pool, PM.)
> American Kestrel 1
> Peregrine Falcon 1 (On signal tower at east corner of park.)
> Herring Gull 60
> Rock Pigeon 50
> Mourning Dove 15
> Chimney Swift 10
> Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 (Female/juvenile type, Lookout
> path above Wellhouse.)
> Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
> Downy Woodpecker 5
> Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 4
> Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 (Singing in Midwood and on Lookout Hill.)
> Eastern Phoebe 1 (Below Binnen falls.)
> Great Crested Flycatcher 2 (Lullwater; Ravine.)
> Eastern Kingbird 8 (Including one bringing food to nest.)
> Warbling Vireo 6
> Red-eyed Vireo 3
> Blue Jay 2
> American Crow 2
> Barn Swallow 20
> Black-capped Chickadee 4
> Tufted Titmouse 7 (Including fledglings.)
> White-breasted Nuthatch 1
> Carolina Wren 2
> House Wren 7
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 (3 or 4 in family group on Lookout
> path above Wellhouse; young being fed.)
> Wood Thrush 4 (Heard from Quaker Hill and Midwood.)
> American Robin 50
> Gray Catbird 20
> European Starling 100
> Cedar Waxwing 30
> Common Yellowthroat 1 (Singing male at Lily Pond viewing
> platform.)
> Chipping Sparrow 1 (South Long Meadow.)
> Song Sparrow 4
> Northern Cardinal 15
> Indigo Bunting 1 (2nd summer male, singing and moving
> around upper levels of Lookout Hill.)
> Red-winged Blackbird 30
> Common Grackle 20
> Brown-headed Cowbird 1 (Juvenile, no apparent "parent" noted.)
> Baltimore Oriole 3
> American Goldfinch 3
> House Sparrow 50
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From Steve Nanz:
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo - called from Lookout Hill , then flew to Penninsula. Common Yellow Throat at Binnen waters.
