GBBC begins 1st day

The Great Backyard Bird Count begins under very cold conditions. Heres the starting lists for Prospect early this morning + 1 PM, as many we please to list ( if any is brave to venture out)

3 lists . Most notable Common Mergansers, Purple Finch, Common Grackle

ebird-checklist@cornell.edu <ebird-checklist@cornell.edu>	Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:51 AM
To: prosbird@
Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, US-NY Feb 13, 2015 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments:     very cold 10 degrees 11 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose  217 Mute Swan  11 American Black Duck  3 Mallard  167 American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid)  2 Northern Shoveler  58 Common Merganser  3 (rare) Ruddy Duck  5 American Coot  38 Ring-billed Gull  250 Herring Gull  1 American Robin  13 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21795671 This report was generated automatically by the Great Backyard Bird Count (http://gbbc.birdcount.org)   Prospect Park--Feeders, Kings, US-NY Feb 13, 2015 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments:     very cold 9 degrees 15 species Mourning Dove  1 Blue Jay  1 Black-capped Chickadee  2 Tufted Titmouse  2 Fox Sparrow (Red)  1 Song Sparrow  2 White-throated Sparrow  13 Dark-eyed Junco  2 Northern Cardinal  1 Red-winged Blackbird  17 Brown-headed Cowbird  1 House Finch  2 Purple Finch  2   females (rare for date) American Goldfinch  8 House Sparrow  24 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21795540 This report was generated automatically by the Great Backyard Bird Count (http://gbbc.birdcount.org) ********************** ebird-checklist@cornell.edu 3:06 PM (1 minute ago) to me Prospect Park--Feeders, Kings, US-NY Feb 13, 2015 1:05 PM - 1:20 PM Protocol: Stationary 15 species Mourning Dove  1 Downy Woodpecker  2 Blue Jay  3 Black-capped Chickadee  3 American Robin  1 Fox Sparrow (Red)  4 Song Sparrow  1 White-throated Sparrow  24 Dark-eyed Junco  1 Northern Cardinal  7 Red-winged Blackbird  9 Common Grackle  2 House Finch  2 American Goldfinch  7 House Sparrow  23 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21801863 This report was generated automatically by the Great Backyard Bird Count (http://gbbc.birdcount.org)