From Kathy Toomey:
date = 2011/03/27
site = Prospect Park
observers = Kathy Toomey and Emily Goldstein
Turkey Vulture flying low over Lookout Hill
Northern Shoveler
Canada Goose
Ring-necked Duck one drake in the Upper Pool
Ruddy Duck
Mute Swan
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
American Robin
European Starling
Chipping Sparrow one, by Lamp post 249
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Sparrow
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Posting from Ebirds listserve
Prospect Park
Posted by: "gaspenberg@xxxxx.com"
Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:44 pm (PDT)
Birded around the boathouse area Saturday afternoon, 3/26.
At least a dozen eastern phoebes.
4 cedar waxwings.
Many red-winged blackbirds.
Also: chickadees, cardinals, bluebirds, white-breasted nuthatches,
grackles, house finches, hairy woodpeckers, white-throat sparrows, mallards,
canadian geese, crows, mourning doves -- and of course starlings, house
sparrows and lots of robins.
Gary Aspenberg
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From Peter
Redtailed Hawk near disaster
PP 3/27 LATE AFTERNOON
I was at the baseball field west edge by the fence enclosure and saw the redtailed hawk in a stoop glide very low heading for the slope bordering the cemetery, after prey. To my disbelief as I watched in my bins, it flew right into the metal weld wire fence but it looked like it pulled up at the last second but nevertheless bounced off the fence ...I went over to check and found the adult hawk in the London plane by the drive, on a low branch..It was all right ...cause afterwards it did fly multiple circles b4 heading towards the Upper Pool... A good ending with relief...
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 3/27/11
Number of species: 24
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler 45 Lake
Ring-necked Duck 1 drake Upper Pool
Ruddy Duck 50 Lake
Double-crested Cormorant 6 lake
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 at 3 sisters Islands
Red-tailed Hawk 1 Ravine, then likely same one at Baseball fields
American Coot 4 lake
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull (American) X
Great Black-backed Gull 2 lake
Rock Pigeon X
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1 at LP 249
Eastern Phoebe 1 Upper Pool
American Crow 1 f/o well dr
Black-capped Chickadee 2
American Robin 60
European Starling X
Fox Sparrow (Red) 1 at LP 249
Song Sparrow 5--4 at LP 249
Northern Cardinal 1
Common Grackle 1 LP 249
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)
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Yesterday in Red Hook for an Art Show on Van Brunt terminus, me and Mary E went to the end of the pier by Fairway Store , to look at the harbor. In a wooden bulkhead to protect the pier end protected as well by jetty boulders, 11 PURPLE SANDPIPERS out of the wind.On the wooden bulkhead with walls, 7 Purples on the platform, the rest on the rocks. It was windy....
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From Chris Elliot:
Hi Peter,
In addition to the birds reported in the blog for March 27, I also had, around 4 PM this afternoon a Pied-billed Grebe on the lake near the construction area. I didn’t see it on other’s lists. Also not listed by others were a Belted Kingfisher in the same area, and on the end of the Peninsula a single Mockingbird.
Nice to see the phoebes back around, and the R-n Duck still on the Upper Pool.
Chris
