Sunday, March 9, 2014

Fwd: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Mar 9, 2014


Yesterdays icon clipart : Anhinga        

Sent from my MetroPCS 4G Android device Limpkin 


------ Original Message ------
From: Rafael Guillermo Campos-Ramírez

Date: 3/9/2014 1:42 PM
To: Peter Dorosh;
Subject:  Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Mar 9, 2014

The good today was the weather.  But even so, still too many areas of water, frozen (e.g. vale, pools, lake).  But the number species are increasing.
The Brown Thrasher is still around the Nethermead arches area, and so a pair of Eastern Towhees.  At the feeders, a FOY: Brown-headed Cowbird.  Another notable was 2 American Tree Sparrows.
The lake was good, maybe because there were 3 sps of mergansers: Common (1 female), Red-breasted (1 male), & Hooded (1 male, 3 females).

Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Kings, US-NY
Observers: Rafael G Campos, & K. Randall (just few minutes at Nethermead Bridge)
Mar 9, 2014 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 kilometer(s)
40 species

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  X
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)  4
Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)  12    A large flock, between the pools.
American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)  4
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)  X
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)  5
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)  4
Common Merganser (North American) (Mergus merganser americanus)  1    female, swimming along with the other 2 sps of mergansers.  Probably the same female of this past Wednesday.  I took some pictures.
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)  1
Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)  8
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)  1
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)  1
American Coot (Fulica americana)  X
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)  X
Herring Gull (American) (Larus argentatus smithsonianus)  X
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia (Domestic type))  X
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)  10
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)  3
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)  1
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)  3
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  2
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)  1
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)  1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)  1
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)  2
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)  19
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)  1    a single bird, seen around Nethermead Arches.
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)  2    This pair has been regular sightings around the Nethermead Arches.
American Tree Sparrow (Spizella arborea)  2    feeders: Breezy Hill.
Fox Sparrow (Red) (Passerella iliaca iliaca/zaboria)  1
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)  2
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)  11
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) (Junco hyemalis hyemalis/carolinensis)  1
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  5
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)  14
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)  2
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)  1    feeders: Breezy Hill.
House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)  5
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  5
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)  X

Brooklyn is great birding!!!

****************************
from Joshua Malbin



Observer: joshuamalbin
2014-03-09 15:57
Prospect Park
Protocol: Traveling
1 Miles
176 Minutes
Observers: 1
    35    Canada Goose       
    5    Mute Swan       
    11    Wood Duck       
    3    American Black Duck       
    125    Mallard       
    15    Northern Shoveler       
    4    Hooded Merganser       
    1    Common Merganser       
    1    Red-breasted Merganser       
    8    Ruddy Duck       
    2    Red-tailed Hawk       
    15    American Coot       
    150    Ring-billed Gull       
    10    Herring Gull       
    X    Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)       
    5    Mourning Dove       
    7    Red-bellied Woodpecker       
    2    Downy Woodpecker       
    4    Blue Jay       
    1    American Crow       
    1    Tufted Titmouse       
    1    White-breasted Nuthatch       
    1    Carolina Wren       
    16    American Robin       
    X    European Starling       
    14    White-throated Sparrow       
    1    Dark-eyed Junco       
    5    Northern Cardinal       
    45    Red-winged Blackbird       
    10    Common Grackle       
    1    Brown-headed Cowbird       
    5    House Finch       
    X    House Sparrow       
This report was created and sent using BirdsEye BirdLog (http://birdseyebirding.com/)