The Prospect Park Alliance announced that due to the severe northeasterner storm starting tomorrow, Prospect Park is closed from noon tomorrow to noon Thursday.Please note with 50-60 mile winds, it will be dangerous to linger under already weaken and compromised trees. please use common sense and avoid the park
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GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. Is it still here? A resounding yes! One cannot figure out this rare bird except that birders are not complaining. Staying loyal and true, the GRSP was spotted first along the bridle trail by the uprooted storm casualty beech.Then it goes to its favorite spot on that lawn median. With the approaching northeasterner and cold temperatures,it remains to be seen if the sparrow will make it.Lets hope so it survives.
Doug Gochfeld reported to me that he had a flyover WHITE WINGED CROSSBILL at Terrace Bridge.Also reported TENNESSEE WARBLER with Black throated blue warbler and 2 others . later reports to come.
--KB
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From Alex Wilson
Begin forwarded message:
> Prospect Park, Kings, US-NY
> Nov 6, 2012
> 68 species
>
> Canada Goose 50
> Mute Swan 10
> Wood Duck 1
> Gadwall 8
> American Wigeon 1
> American Black Duck 1
> Mallard 75
> Northern Shoveler 180
> Bufflehead 1 (Female; has become uncommon in Prospect last few
> years.)
> Ruddy Duck 125
> Pied-billed Grebe 3
> Double-crested Cormorant 3
> Great Blue Heron 2
> Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
> Red-tailed Hawk 2
> American Coot 15
> Laughing Gull 1
> Ring-billed Gull 15
> Herring Gull 35
> Great Black-backed Gull 1
> Rock Pigeon 30
> Mourning Dove 30
> Belted Kingfisher 2
> Red-bellied Woodpecker 6
> Downy Woodpecker 4
> Hairy Woodpecker 2
> Northern Flicker 6
> Merlin 3
> Peregrine Falcon 1
> Eastern Phoebe 3
> Blue-headed Vireo 1 (By Lookout north stairs; clearly
> demarcated blue-grey helmet with white throat; bright yellow-olive
> sides.)
> Blue Jay 25
> American Crow 7
> Black-capped Chickadee 35
> Tufted Titmouse 10
> White-breasted Nuthatch 6
> Brown Creeper 2
> Winter Wren 4 (Scattered sightings.)
> Carolina Wren 5
> Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12
> Eastern Bluebird 2 (Male, Breeze Hill; heard while watching
> GRSP.)
> Hermit Thrush 35
> American Robin 100
> European Starling 100
> American Pipit 2 (Early flyovers.)
> Cedar Waxwing 5
> Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (Female, behind Wellhouse, then
> flew towards Peninsula; with white wing patch.)
> Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
> Eastern Towhee 3
> Chipping Sparrow 1
> Savannah Sparrow 2
> Grasshopper Sparrow 1 (Continuing in same spot as reported
> last three days, 2:30-3:00 PM. Photographed.)
> Fox Sparrow 5
> Song Sparrow 20
> Lincoln's Sparrow 1 (Breeze Hill; nice views of delicate bird
> with warm wash across breast and malar; fine streaking.)
> Swamp Sparrow 8
> White-throated Sparrow 75
> White-crowned Sparrow 1 (Falkill Meadow; juvenile.)
> Dark-eyed Junco 50
> Northern Cardinal 15
> Indigo Bunting 1 (Center Drive bridle path; female/juvenile
> type, all warm brown.)
> Red-winged Blackbird 15
> Common Grackle 3
> Purple Finch 5
> Pine Siskin 50
> American Goldfinch 75
> House Sparrow 15
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FromPeter
Blue-HeadedVireo was seen in the Chinese Peppercorn tree (small red berries, thorny trunk) in front of the WellHouse
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From Orrin :
Greenwood Cemetery
Highlights were a left-over palm warbler, three cooperative hermit thrushes, and this cooperative red-tail, eating what appears to be a bird on top of a statue of a bird--bird cubed.
Still plenty of juncoes, but hundreds, not thousands, in the north end of the cemetery, in an hour this morning. Complete list:
Dark-eyed junco
White-breasted nuthatch
Monk parakeet
Red-bellied woodpecker
White-throated sparrow
Palm warbler
Red-tailed hawk
Black-capped chickadee
American robin
Hermit thrush
Double-crested cormorant
Ruddy duck
Mallard duck
Northern shoveler
Chipping sparrow
Song sparrow
Northern cardinal
Northern mockingbird
Mourning dove
Rock dove
Red-winged blackbird (2 immature at 34th st entrance)
House sparrow
