No registration required. Meet 9 am at Bartel Square park entrance (opposite Pavilion Movie Theater at 15th St and Prospect Park West / Southwest Avenues)
Trip Leader: Peter Dorosh
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Sunday at 10 am for Sunday
We will meet at the Boathouse on Sunday, January 2, 2011 - 10am
Hope you can make it.
Have a healthy and happy new year!
michele dreger (leader)
prospect park audubon center
Note the link on the Brooklyn Bridge Park website about the count and the team that covered the area on the Dec 18th Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Members and CBC team-ers Janet Zinn, Alan Baratz, Jerry Layton and Eric Salzman are in the photo gallery (begins with the House Sparrow).
http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/events/recreation/bird-watching
From Larry Zirlin:
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 12/30/10
Number of species: 21
Mute Swan 6
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 200
Northern Shoveler 100
Merlin 2 One chasing the other over Boathouse pond.
American Coot 6
Ring-billed Gull 700
Herring Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Rock Pigeon 7
Blue Jay 4
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 1 Lullwater Trail
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Lullwater Trail
Carolina Wren 1 Trail above Wellhouse
American Robin 3 Lily Pond, Lullwater
European Starling 31
Song Sparrow 1 Near Wellhouse
White-throated Sparrow 50
Northern Cardinal 5
House Sparrow 10
Feeders
Observation date: 12/30/10
Number of species: 13
Mourning Dove 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Black-capped Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 23
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Northern Cardinal 6
Red-winged Blackbird 1
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 3
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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From Eni Falci:
Hi Peter-
Had a chance to walk by the Vale and Nelly's Lawn today.The sap was running on the maple tree the sapsucker had tapped and all the birds were taking advantage of the treat. The usual winter denizens were around lots of chattering white breasted nuthatches, chickadees, cardinals, downy woodpeckers and titmice. Juncos and white throated sparrows on the ground by the road but the surprise and treat was to see Nelly the red tailed hawk and her mate "Ned" carrying sticks to the previous year's nest, despite the pine tree being dead and needle-less.
Eni
