Hilights: Brown Thrasher,YB Sapsucker, Sharp-shinned Hawk
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During a busy workday, I managed to squeezed in my lunch hour and during the workday these "on the fly" sightings .Pretty quiet, especially with the puzzling sparrow scarcity, particularly at the reliable peninsula sumacs....strange....did a UFO beamed them all up???
--Peter
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 10/13/09
Number of species: 20
Canada Goose 200 lake
Mute Swan 5 duck island
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X lake ; common
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 immatures duck island
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 garage area
Red-tailed Hawk 2 soar lookout hill
American Coot 1 duck island
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 terrace br
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Eastern Phoebe 1 terrace br
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 peninsula sumacs
Black-throated Blue warbler--male peninsula sumacs
Common Yellowthroat 1 peninsula sumacs
Chipping Sparrow 4-- 2 rink;2 breeze hill lawn
Song Sparrow 8--mostly rink
White-throated Sparrow X common Butterfly meadow,
Common Grackle 6- 9th st propagation area
House Sparrow X
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Posted by Kingsboider at 6:19 PM
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From Janet Zinn:
I had a Brown Thrasher today in the zoo around the wildflower area behind the barn
