10/14th Prospect : Snow Goose and Woodcock , a good mix...

(photo by Anne-Katrin Titze,taken today)

Hilights  so far are:

SNOW GOOSE just took off from the lake west shore (9 am)-low flyover over Wellhouse..However latest report is from Rob Bate who observed the goose at or near the Rink per 11:27 am text message

Alan Baratz saw AMERICAN WOODCOCK on the lawn just inside the park (entrance) from the Coney Island/PPSW Ave 's Park  Circle around 8 a.m.

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Peter's list ( incidental sightings thru the day)

Walking by the construction fence spot (Near and south of the rink) that juts out into the lawn, 5 different species sparrows appeared: Field, Swamp, White-throated, Chipping and White-crowned. All were in the same fence corner.

Location: Prospect Park


Observation date: 10/14/10

Number of species: 29


Snow Goose 1 west lake shore, then f/o Wellhouse.

Canada Goose 35

Mute Swan 6 lake


American Black Duck 1 Duck Island

Mallard X

Northern Shoveler 12 lake


Ruddy Duck 17 lake

Double-crested Cormorant 3 Duck Island

Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 f/o Wellhouse

Red-tailed Hawk 1 perched in snag, south of rink construction fence


American Coot 1 lake

Ring-billed Gull X

Rock Pigeon X

Mourning Dove X

Belted Kingfisher 1 West Island

Blue Jay X

Golden-crowned Kinglet X

Ruby-crowned Kinglet X

Hermit Thrush 1 south lakeside

European Starling X

Black-and-white Warbler 1 SW lookout Hill stairs

Chipping Sparrow 1 south of rink construction fence


Field Sparrow 1 south of rink construction fence


Song Sparrow X

Swamp Sparrow 1 south of rink construction fence


White-throated Sparrow 2 south of rink construction fence


White-crowned Sparrow 1 south of rink construction fence

Common Grackle 3 Greenwood ave

House Sparrow X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)