Not so loyal to the usual location of past days with the Ravine, WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS opted out for Falkill Falls but still loyal to the species tree this Xbill species have been targeting while here : a sweetgum , what else ?
Prospect Lake, meanwhile is coming alive with ducks. Just short a decade , 9 species ducks was reported by Alex Wilson, with most attention focused on a RED-BREASTED MERGANSER putting in a rare appearance for the park; we usually get this species one or two times yearly. Two Merganser species today makes it cool to count, the other duck being HOODED. A lone RING-NECKED DUCK has been here for a couple of days, the hope we get more at the Xmas count approaches, usually the only Brooklyn spot that gets this species. But we wont have a problem with NORTHERN SHOVELER, 200 too many to count...
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From Rob Jett~FWD: Chat still at Breeze Hill path to Lullwater
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From Alex Wilson
> Prospect
Park, Kings, US-NY
> Nov 28,
2012
> 54
species (+1 other taxa)
>
> Canada
Goose 100
> Mute
Swan 7
> American
Black Duck 4
>
Mallard 80
> American
Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 2
> Northern
Shoveler 200
> Ring-necked
Duck 1 (Drake, Lake.)
>
Bufflehead 1 (Female, Duck Island.)
> Hooded
Merganser 8 (6 hen, 2 drake, Three Sisters Islands.)
>
Red-breasted Merganser 1 (Female, Lake. Unusual for Prospect.)
> Ruddy
Duck 50
>
Pied-billed Grebe 4
>
Double-crested Cormorant 2
> Great
Blue Heron 3
> Cooper's
Hawk 1 (Adult.)
>
Red-tailed Hawk 4
> American
Coot 20
>
Ring-billed Gull 150
> Herring
Gull 40
> Great
Black-backed Gull 1
> Rock
Pigeon 30
> Mourning
Dove 20
> Belted
Kingfisher 2
>
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
>
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
> Downy
Woodpecker 3
> Hairy
Woodpecker 3
> American
Kestrel 1
> Blue
Jay 15
> American
Crow 5
>
Black-capped Chickadee 25
> Tufted
Titmouse 10
>
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
> White-breasted
Nuthatch 5
> Winter
Wren 2
> Carolina
Wren 4
> Hermit
Thrush 2
> American
Robin 10
> Northern
Mockingbird 2
> European
Starling 50
>
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 (Lookout above Wellhouse; one at
>
sapsucker wells, another heard.)
> Yellow-breasted
Chat 1 (Continuing bird in clear view on
south
> slope
path, Breeze Hill. With Rob Jett. Bright, but pale lower
>
mandible.)
> Eastern
Towhee 1 (Tailless female, ravine.)
> Fox
Sparrow 5
> Song
Sparrow 4
> Swamp
Sparrow 1
>
White-throated Sparrow 75
>
Dark-eyed Junco 4
> Northern
Cardinal 25
>
Red-winged Blackbird 3
> House
Finch 20
>
White-winged Crossbill 4 (In Sweetgum above Fallkill falls, 1
> male.)
> Pine
Siskin 20
> American
Goldfinch 40
> House
Sparrow 20
