Hilight today: RED-HEADED WOODPECKER seen by Audubon group ( which ?)
from Rafael Campos:
( birding with Gayle Lovell and Xandra )
Site: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Date: 04 October 2009
Observers: Rafael Campos + Gaylle & Xandra
The activity today was quite slow, except perhaps the area between the Peninsula meadow and Lookout Hill.Vale, Midwood, Nethermead, Lullwater; were very quiet, and nothing exciting or rare there.
I joined forces with Gaylle & Xandra, and we started around the Peninsula Meadow, and the action started. Our first big sighting was 2 Common Nighthawks seen flying towards the Nethermead (±10 am), and about 20 minutes later, seen again circling around the Lookout Hill.
Later, I met the Audubon group, and they told about the Red-headed Woodpecker, which I missed.
Here is the birds recorded today (0800-1200 hrs):
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck (2 Upper Pool)
Mallard
Northern Shoveler (3 Lake)
Cooper's Hawk (1 Boulder Bridge)
American Coot (Lake)
Herring Gull (flyovers)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Common Nighthawk (2,flyovers)
Chimney Swift (2 flying over Lake)
Red-headed Woodpecker (1, Butterfly meadow; reported by the Audubon Group)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (1 male)
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tufted Titmouse (1)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Northern Parula (1 Vale)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (1 male, Wellhouse)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler (3 Lookout Hill)
Blackpoll Warbler (3)
Black-and-white Warbler (2 Vale)
American Redstart (2)
Common Yellowthroat (1 Lookout Hill)
Scarlet Tanager (Lookout Hill, seen by the Audubon group)
Eastern Towhee (1 male, Peninsula Meadow)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow (2)
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
House Sparrow
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