From Rafael:
Date: 17 January 2010
Place: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY
Observer: Rafael Campos R.
My last day in Park Slope, before I move South looking for warmer climates (aka Costa Rica). My early morning walk was totally different from the one I did yesterday. Gray skies, cold, and the bird activity was almost close to nothing. Most of the water is still frozen at the lake, and the large concentrations of birds are in few spots where the water is unfrozen (gulls + waterfowl).
The feeders at Breezy Hill had few bird species, perhaps the best there was 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch. And still the lonely Great Blue Heron, looking quite cold in the pools.
No raptors at all, nor even the pipit.
Here is the list of the birds recorded today:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Great Blue Heron (1, lower pool)
America Coot (±3, Lake)
Ring-billed Gull
(American) Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock (Common) Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow (2, Lake)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch (1, feeders)
White-breasted Nuthatch
American Robin
European (Common) Starling
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird (±8)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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From Larry Zirlin
Observers: Anne-Katrin Titze, Larry Zirlin
Prospect portion of Brooklyn Waterfowl Count.
Time: 8:45 to 10:15 1/17/10
Canada Goose 235
Mute Swan 8
Wood Duck 1
American Black Duck 10
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1
Mallard 312
Northern Shoveler 13
Bufflehead 1
Ruddy Duck 18
American Coot 13
One Canada Goose had a yellow neckband of NA08.
Other ducks we can’t count: 1 Cayuga Duck, 1 “chocolate duck” hybrid, 11 caramel colored ducks, that look like domestic/mallard crosses.
Larry
