from http://www.brooklynbirdclub.org/trips.htm
Sunday, April 3rd Prospect Park
Meet 8 am at Grand Army Plaza entrance (Stranahan Statue)
Trip Leader: Gabriel Willow
Focus: early returning passerines
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There is also at the same time for 2- hr birders the "1st Sunday Birders" from the Boathouse Prospect Audubon Center . Eni and Vinny Falci are leading. Meet 8am here for this 2nd group
---Kingsboider
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From Rob Bate:
Still plenty of Robins and Phoebes on a short walk around the lake and Lullwater.
Tomorrrow the birds come for real, no fooling around.
Number of species: 34
Canada Goose 12
Mute Swan 4
Mallard 23
Northern Shoveler 31
Ruddy Duck 33
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Coot 3
Ring-billed Gull 50
Herring Gull 35
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Eastern Phoebe 3
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 75
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 31
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 14
Red-winged Blackbird 26
House Finch 1
House Sparrow 4
