A newsboard for reporting bird sightings, happenings & announcements in north Brooklyn and the 3 main central north Brooklyn green regions : historic Prospect Park, Brooklyn Botanic Garden , & Greenwood Cemetery.A Brooklyn Bird Club service www.brooklynbirdclub.org
Note: short posts of rare sightings /activity alerts are sent by cell phone.If the species name(s)/locale is first in the title heading, it's a cellphone text message afield.Also note: Brooklyn Conservation posts.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Evening watch Prospect Lake 6/23
8:10 pm -9
3 Black-crowned night herons
Chimney swifts
Robin
RW Blackbird
Mallards
Mute Swans
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
and about 20 feet from where i stood on the shore wall, a Snapping Turtle peeking at me..( pointed snout)