Monday, May 30, 2011

Lists from the weekend

May 28th Prospect

Observers Rusty Harold  , guide for Lisa Hayes visiting from Greensboro, NC

Hi Lisa,

Good birding with you Saturday. By my count, we tallied 30 species total on 5/28:

X Canada Goose

4 Mute Swan

X Mallard

2 Double-crested Cormorant

1 Great Egret

1 Green Heron

2 Red-tailed Hawk

1 Spotted Sandpiper

X Laughing Gull

X Ring-billed Gull

X Herring Gull

X Rock Pigeon

X Mourning Dove

X Chimney Swift

2 Downy Woodpecker

1 Red-eyed Vireo

2 Blue Jay

1 American Crow

3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

X House Wren

1 Wood Thrush

X American Robin

X Gray Catbird

X European Starling

X Cedar Waxwing

X Northern Cardinal

X Red-winged Blackbird

X Common Grackle

2 Baltimore Oriole

X House Sparrow


Elliotte Rusty Harold

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From Orrin:

In a walk this morning in Green-Wood, the major highlights were seeing Manny, the weekend guard at the Ft. Hamilton Pkwy entrance who had been out sick, some Civil War reenacters, and a startled rabbit. Aside from robins, mockingbirds, and starlings, avian species were fairly sparse.



Great egret

Down woodpecker

Eastern wood pewee (heard)

Magnolia warbler (1 or 2; heard)

Warbling vireo (1 heard)

Baltimore oriole (competing for attention with the Civil War reenacters)

House finch

Cedar waxwing (persistently heard)

Chipping sparrow (resident)

Song sparrow

Northern mockingbird (many)

Gray catbird

American robin (many)

Rock dove (1 flock)

European starling (many, with offspring)

House sparrow