Hilights: 3 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS (K.Randall); 6 Ring-necked Ducks, Pied-billed Grebe
An unseasonably cold day for birding, regression to wintry like conditions ( but fortunately no heavy precipitation) yet today's blustery day didnt't deter a PIED-BILLED GREBE seen along the flattened Phragmite section behind Duck island. The grebe, my first for the year, then went diving inside a pocket within the phragmites.
Off to the northwest, in the northwest cove of the Peninsula Thumb, 5 RING-NECKED DUCKS (3 drakes, 2 hens) in a tight flock glided near a RUDDY DUCK flock, estimated at 70 birds. The persistent Ring-neck Duck drake, at the Upper Pool , was sleeping next to the island.
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List: lunch hour
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 3/26/10
Number of species: 7
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler 45 lake
Ring-necked Duck 6---5 lake (3 drake, 2 hen), 1 upper pool(drake)
Ruddy Duck 85 lake
Pied-billed Grebe 1 Duck Island back shoreline
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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From Keir Randall:
Location: Prospect Park (8-10am)
Observation date: 3/26/10
Number of species: 24
Great Egret (Lullwater)
Canada Goose X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X
Ring-necked Duck 1 (Upper Pool)
Ruddy Duck X
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker X
Downy Woodpecker X
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Blue Jay X
Black-capped Chickadee X
Carolina Wren 1
American Robin X
European Starling X
Song Sparrow X
Swamp Sparrow 1 (above L249)
White-throated Sparrow X
Northern Cardinal X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Rusty Blackbird 3 (Ambergill Pool)
Common Grackle X
House Sparrow X
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Kingsboider note: Ambergill Pool is in the Ravine, just south of the Esdale Bridge
