Hilight : At least one Pine Siskin in a Sweetgum tree adjacent to Nethermead Arches , on the north side , before birds there were scattered by a Merlin (seen also yesterday , same locale) per Mary Eyster.
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Quiet day, sparse sightings marked this day. The lake showed little in way of birds, mostly small masses of gulls.Tomorrow is another day...
--Kingsboider
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 1/5/10
Number of species: 29
Canada Goose 250-200 parade grounds;rest south lakeside
Mute Swan 6 lake
American Black Duck 3 lake
Mallard 150 lake
Northern Shoveler 19 lake
Bufflehead 1 drake lake
Cooper's Hawk 1 (seen by Mary Eyster)
Red-tailed Hawk 1 f/o lake
Merlin 1 Nethermead arches, one point chased Coopers hawk , (obs Mary Eyster)
American Coot 7 lake
Ring-billed Gull X lake
Herring Gull X lake
Great Black-backed Gull 1 lake
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Downy Woodpecker 2 feeders
Black-capped Chickadee 2 feeders
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 feeders
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 feeders
American Robin X
European Starling X
Song Sparrow 1 west island
Swamp Sparrow 1 west shore lake
White-throated Sparrow 35 --15 west island ; 20 quaker cemetery
Dark-eyed Junco X
Northern Cardinal 2 well dr
Red-winged Blackbird 1 west island
Pine Siskin 1 seen by Mary Eyster ; at Nethermead Arches
House Sparrow X
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