A newsboard for reporting bird sightings, happenings & announcements in north Brooklyn and the 3 main central north Brooklyn green regions : historic Prospect Park, Brooklyn Botanic Garden , & Greenwood Cemetery.A Brooklyn Bird Club service www.brooklynbirdclub.org Note: short posts of rare sightings /activity alerts are sent by cell phone.If the species name(s)/locale is first in the title heading, it's a cellphone text message afield.Also note: Brooklyn Conservation posts.
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.