From Alex Wilson:
Location: Prospect Park Observation date: 7/28/10 Number of species: 50 Canada Goose 43 Mute Swan 9 Wood Duck 5 Mallard 150 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 2 Green Heron 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Osprey 1 (Upper Pool, perched, then chased by Kingbird and Red-tail.) Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Kestrel 2 (Pair over Peninsula.) Spotted Sandpiper 3 Laughing Gull 20 Ring-billed Gull 2 Herring Gull (American) 12 Forster's Tern 12 (Plus higher flyovers through AM; at 1:00 PM there were 7 around the Lake, including young birds being fed on the awning of the boat by Three Sisters.) Rock Pigeon 40 Mourning Dove 15 Chimney Swift 50 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Downy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 7 Eastern Kingbird 8 Warbling Vireo 7 (Only 2 heard singing, along with family groups including begging fledgling being fed.) Blue Jay 8 American Crow 2 Barn Swallow 15 Black-capped Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 3 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 (Lookout butterfly meadow.) American Robin 150 Gray Catbird 20 Northern Mockingbird 5 Brown Thrasher 1 (Peninsula.) European Starling 100 Cedar Waxwing 10 Blue-winged Warbler 1 (Midwood.) Yellow Warbler 7 (Including 4 together on the Peninsula.) Northern Waterthrush 1 Chipping Sparrow 3 (Family including fledgling, horse circle near Bartel Prichard entrance.) Song Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 15 Red-winged Blackbird 15 Common Grackle 15 Baltimore Oriole 5 American Goldfinch 10 House Sparrow 50
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Lakeshore south sightings 3:35-4:15 (obs Peter)
2 Yellow Warbler ( behind Three Sisters)
Warbling Vireo ( west of Three Sisters)
Cedar Waxwings ( juvs)
Canada geese -11 west shore
Laughing Gull
Mute Swan- 7( 3 ads, 4 cygnets)
