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date = 2013/12/31
site = Prospect Park
observers = peter d
Northern Shoveler ~265 Lake
American Black Duck 2 lake
Canada Goose
Hooded Merganser 7 Lake
Ruddy Duck 8 Lake
Mute Swan
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk flyover Lake
American Coot 10 Lake
Great Black-backed Gull 2 Lake
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Blue Jay 2
White-throated Sparrow 1 feeders
Song Sparrow west shore lake
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 16 feeders
Common Grackle 275 Bandshell lawn
House Finch 12 feeders
House Sparrow feeders
Dennis Hrehowsik (@deepseagangster) tweeted at 0:57 PM on Thu, Dec 26, 2013:
Iceland Gull still on lake as of 12:45 but gulls nervous and keep reshuffling.
(https://twitter.com/deepseagangster/status/416266547393331200)
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| To Winter | |
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| William Blake (from Poetical Sketches, 1783) | |
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O winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car. He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep Rides heavy; his storms are unchain’d, sheathed In ribbed steel; I dare not lift mine eyes; For he hath rear’d his sceptre o’er the world. Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o’er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and in his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life. He takes his seat upon the cliffs, the mariner Cries in vain. Poor little wretch! that deal’st With storms, till heaven smiles, and the monster Is driven yelling to his caves beneath Mount Hecla. |
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| Brown Creeper, photo by Karen O'Hearn |
Species
|
#
| |||
Snow Goose
|
130
| |||
Brant
|
15723
| |||
Cackling Goose
|
2
|
NEW FOR COUNT
| ||
Canada Goose
|
1607
| |||
Mute Swan
|
171
| |||
Wood Duck
|
10
|
IRR; ALL-TIME HIGH (by almost 4x)
| ||
Gadwall
|
126
| |||
American Wigeon
|
126
| |||
American Black Duck
|
732
| |||
Mallard
|
888
|
10-yr hi
| ||
Northern Shoveler
|
484
| |||
Northern Pintail
|
2
| |||
Green-winged Teal
|
98
| |||
Canvasback
|
2
|
All-time low (tie)
| ||
Greater Scaup
|
1778
| |||
Lesser Scaup
|
81
| |||
Surf Scoter
|
46
| |||
White-winged Scoter
|
19
| |||
Black Scoter
|
64
| |||
Scoter (sp.)
|
2
| |||
Long-tailed Duck
|
249
| |||
Bufflehead
|
621
| |||
Common Goldeneye
|
11
| |||
Hooded Merganser
|
109
|
All-time high
| ||
Red-breasted Merganser
|
571
| |||
Ruddy Duck
|
279
| |||
Ring-necked Pheasant
|
1
|
All-time low (tie)
| ||
Red-throated Loon
|
27
| |||
Common Loon
|
66
| |||
Pied-billed Grebe
|
5
| |||
Horned Grebe
|
99
| |||
Red-necked Grebe
|
1
| |||
Northern Gannet
|
208
| |||
Double-crested Cormorant
|
130
| |||
Great Cormorant
|
52
| |||
Great Blue Heron
|
12
|
10-year low
| ||
Northern Harrier
|
12
|
All-time low
| ||
Sharp-shinned Hawk
|
5
| |||
Cooper's Hawk
|
9
|
10-year low
| ||
Red-tailed Hawk
|
13
|
10-year low
| ||
American Kestrel
|
1
|
10-year low
| ||
Merlin
|
1
|
10-year low
| ||
Peregrine Falcon
|
3
|
10-year low
| ||
Clapper Rail
|
3
|
IRR
| ||
American Coot
|
46
| |||
Black-bellied Plover
|
20
| |||
Semipalmated Plover
|
1
|
RARE
| ||
Killdeer
|
17
|
10-year high
| ||
Greater Yellowlegs
|
7
| |||
Ruddy Turnstone
|
3
|
IRR
| ||
Sanderling
|
401
| |||
Purple Sandpiper
|
23
| |||
Dunlin
|
38
| |||
Wilson's Snipe
|
1
|
RARE
| ||
American Woodcock
|
1
| |||
Bonaparte's Gull
|
242
| |||
Ring-billed Gull
|
6797
| |||
Herring Gull
|
1616
|
All-time low
| ||
Great Black-backed Gull
|
150
|
All-time low
| ||
Rock Pigeon
|
704
| |||
Mourning Dove
|
150
| |||
Monk Parakeet
|
10
|
10-year low
| ||
Snowy Owl
|
15
|
IRR; ALL-TIME HIGH (by c. 4x)
| ||
Belted Kingfisher
|
1
|
10-year low
| ||
Red-headed Woodpecker
|
1
|
RARE
| ||
Red-bellied Woodpecker
|
33
| |||
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
|
22
| |||
Downy Woodpecker
|
30
| |||
Northern Flicker
|
8
|
All-time low
| ||
Blue Jay
|
62
| |||
American Crow
|
70
|
All-time low
| ||
Horned Lark
|
50
| |||
Tree Swallow
|
4
|
IRR
| ||
Black-capped Chickadee
|
4
|
All-time low
| ||
Tufted Titmouse
|
4
|
All-time low
| ||
White-breasted Nuthatch
|
5
|
10-year low
| ||
Brown Creeper
|
1
|
10-year low
| ||
Carolina Wren
|
34
| |||
Winter Wren
|
2
| |||
Hermit Thrush
|
11
| |||
American Robin
|
33
|
10-year low
| ||
Gray Catbird
|
5
| |||
Northern Mockingbird
|
32
|
10-year low
| ||
European Starling
|
924
|
All-time low
| ||
American Pipit
|
2
|
10-year low
| ||
Cedar Waxwing
|
3
|
10-year low
| ||
Orange-crowned Warbler
|
2
|
IRR
| ||
Nashville Warbler
|
1
|
RARE
| ||
Yellow-rumped Warbler
|
135
|
All-time low
| ||
Palm Warbler
|
1
| |||
Eastern Towhee
|
2
|
10-year low
| ||
American Tree Sparrow
|
59
| |||
Chipping Sparrow
|
4
| |||
Field Sparrow
|
6
| |||
Savannah Sparrow
|
36
| |||
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
|
1
|
RARE
| ||
Sharp-tailed Sparrow (sp.)
|
1
|
RARE
| ||
Fox Sparrow
|
50
|
10-year high
| ||
Song Sparrow
|
247
| |||
Swamp Sparrow
|
86
|
10-year high
| ||
White-throated Sparrow
|
377
| |||
Dark-eyed Junco
|
207
| |||
Snow Bunting
|
251
|
10-year high
| ||
Northern Cardinal
|
153
| |||
Red-winged Blackbird
|
111
| |||
Eastern Meadowlark
|
1
|
10-year low
| ||
Rusty Blackbird
|
3
|
IRR
| ||
Common Grackle
|
2
| |||
Brown-headed Cowbird
|
356
| |||
House Finch
|
156
| |||
American Goldfinch
|
164
| |||
House Sparrow
|
418
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