Wednesday, December 30, 2009

December 30th Prospect

Hilights: 2 different gender Eastern Towhees, Rusty Blackbird

From Peter:

Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 12/30/09
Number of species: 33

note: lake is 98% frozen

Canada Goose 225 lake
Mute Swan 3 lake
Wood Duck 1 drake boathouse pond
American Black Duck 3 lake
Mallard 35 lake
Northern Shoveler 60 lake
Red-tailed Hawk 1 juv north midwood
American Coot 9 lake
Ring-billed Gull 600
Herring Gull (American) 25 lake
Great Black-backed Gull 7 lake
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove 14 feeders
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 feeders
Downy Woodpecker 2 feeders
Blue Jay 2 binnen pool
Black-capped Chickadee 2 feeders
Tufted Titmouse 2 --1 feeders; 1 rink
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 feeders
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 feeders
Brown Creeper 1 elephant hill /west midwood slope
Winter Wren 1 elephant hill /west midwood slope
Hermit Thrush 1 Lower pool ( also obs Mary Eyster)
Northern Mockingbird 1 east wood arch building entrance
European Starling X
Eastern Towhee 1 female east wood arch building entrance,then lily pool meadow
Fox Sparrow (Red) 2--feeders; south midwood
White-throated Sparrow 135 south midwood up to slope
Northern Cardinal 14--9 east wood arch;5 south midwood
Common Grackle 1 Lily Pool
House Finch 8 feeders
American Goldfinch 3 feeders
House Sparrow X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)

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From Alex Wilson:


Begin forwarded messag

> Location: Prospect Park
> Observation date: 12/30/09
> Number of species: 43
>
> Canada Goose 150
> Mute Swan 5
> American Black Duck 4
> American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1
> Mallard 150
> Northern Shoveler 45
> Great Blue Heron 2
> Red-tailed Hawk 2
> Merlin 1 (Nethermead.)
> American Coot 11
> Ring-billed Gull 700
> Herring Gull (American) 40
> Great Black-backed Gull 2
> Rock Pigeon 25
> Mourning Dove 30
> Red-bellied Woodpecker 8
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5
> Downy Woodpecker 8
> Hairy Woodpecker 2
> Blue Jay 10
> American Crow 1
> Black-capped Chickadee 10
> Tufted Titmouse 4
> Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 (Breeze Hill feeders.)
> White-breasted Nuthatch 6
> Brown Creeper 1
> Carolina Wren 4
> Winter Wren 1
> Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
> American Robin 25
> Northern Mockingbird 2
> European Starling 100
> Eastern Towhee 1 (Male, stream behind Music Pagoda.)
> Fox Sparrow (Red) 3
> Song Sparrow 2
> Swamp Sparrow 1
> White-throated Sparrow 75
> Northern Cardinal 30
> Red-winged Blackbird 8
> Rusty Blackbird 1 (Behind Music Pagoda.)
> Common Grackle 1 (Juvenile, behind Music Pagoda.)
> House Finch 20
> American Goldfinch 20
> House Sparrow 30