From Rafael
As the temperatures were a little warmer than a week ago, I went to Prospect Park (PP), for my weekly walk to look for birds.
Most of the snow is almost melt, and the lake is still frozen, and so the pools. No much activity, except for the feeders at Breezy Hill. But the lake has large numbers of gulls, specially Ring-billeds. A Hooded Merganser male, was seen among the Mallards.
A lonely Common Grackle was spotted near the Zoo grounds, and a male Hairy Woodpecker, were nice surprises.
Here is the birds recorded this morning, 20 February 2010, at PP:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck (1 male, near the Boat House)
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Hooded Merganser (1 male, Lake)
Red-tailed Hawk (1 flyover the Lake)
American Coot (1, Lake)
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker (near Lampost 49)
Blue Jay
American Crow (2, Grand Army Plaza)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
American Robin
European (Common) Starling
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird (5, feeders: Breezy Hill)
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Brooklyn is good birding, even when the grounds are covered with snow!!!!
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From Anne-Katrin:
Wood Duck at southern end of the lake on Thursday, swimming in and around the swans.
Wood Duck was back at the Audubon Center pond ,preening on the ice this morning.
Anne-Katrin
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Observers:Peter D, Mary E
Brooklyn Botanic garden
Location: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Observation date: 2/20/10
Number of species: 15
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Rock Pigeon X
Mourning Dove X
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
American Robin 15
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 9 Crape Mytle stair way
White-throated Sparrow X
Northern Cardinal 1
House Sparrow X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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From Rusty Harold:
date = 2/20/10
site = Prospect Park
observers = Elliotte Rusty Harold
American Goldfinch 100%
Downy Woodpecker 100%
Tufted Titmouse 100%
Wood Duck 100%
Common Grackle 100%
Dark-eyed Junco 100%
Northern Shoveler 100%
Northern Cardinal 100%
European Starling 100%
Red-tailed Hawk 100%
White-breasted Nuthatch 100%
White-throated Sparrow 100%
House Sparrow 100%
House Finch 100%
Black-capped Chickadee 100%
Rock Pigeon 100%
Canada Goose 100%
American Pipit 100%
Mourning Dove 100%
Ruddy Duck 100%
Blue Jay 100%
Mute Swan 100%
Mallard 100%
Ring-billed Gull 100%
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
