As promised in yesterdays report to search the records, Eastern Bluebird seen of late is the latest ever for Prospect Park.
The latest ever was 12/7/1964 seen by Olney Raymond.
The earliest was 1/28/2001 seen by Bernie Brennan, quite a legendary Brooklyn birder as well.
Those are the only two sightings ever for December or January ( no sightings in February)
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For American Tree Sparrow, the highest total for a single day in December or January ( winter months) was 7 on 1/24/1958 Olney Raymond followed by 6 occurring 12/28/1999 in the Ravine ( Rob Jett)
The highest all time happened 3/13/1999 , 20 birds on the Nethermead ( PDorosh, Marie Dooling, Steve Nanz) followed by 19 seen 9/25/1967 , reported by Olney Raymond.
--KB
