Still present Ring-necked Duck on the Upper Pool and a Winter Wren at Lamppost #249 were the best highlights on this dreary like wet cold day...The weekend looks prospective for migrants hopefully
List 4 pm -5 pm
Location: Prospect Park
Observation date: 4/1/11
Number of species: 19
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan 3 Lake
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler 16 Lake
Ring-necked Duck 1 drake Upper Pool
Ruddy Duck X lake
Double-crested Cormorant 2@ at 3 Sisters
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 @3 Sisters
American Coot 2 lake
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull (American) X
Rock Pigeon X
Downy Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Winter Wren 1 LP 249
American Robin X
European Starling X
Song Sparrow 1 lakeshore
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/)
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From an email newsletter I received, here is for your reading the summation on February's Great Backyard Census. I included the link for Brooklyn which includes Prospect and Greenwood among others....
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/press/news-stories/2011summary/
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