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
