Thursday, October 15, 2009

Oct 15th sightings


From Orrin Tilevitz:

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Active this morning around Japanese pond and water lily pools.

Mallard
Northern flicker
Red-breasted nuthatch
Ruby-crowned kinglet (many)
Golden-crowned kinglet
Northern parula (1)
Yellow-rumped warler
Hermit thrush
American robin
Eastern phoebe
Swamp sparrow
White-crowned sparrow (1)
White-throated sparrow (everywhere)
Mourning dove
Northern cardinal
Bluejay
European starling

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From Janet Schumacher:

Around 5:30 pm today, there was a large
flock of Chipping Sparrows at northeast
corner of the ball fields, on the ground
and perching on the snow fencing in the
cold rain. I didn't have my bins so I
didn't see what else might have been there.