Leader : Michele Dreger
We had 2 walks. 8am Neal and I led the walk passed the feeders to lampost 249 in hopes of finding the Common Yellowthroat.
Neal brought his scope which he had won in a silent auction at a Linnean function. The group of 13 were hunkered around it on Wellhouse Drive trying to see the Hooded Mergansers on the other side of the lake. We continured looking for the warbler. While we were at those new picnic tables someone called out brown thrasher! Sure enough, it was right where we left it several months ago, scratching in the leaf liter behind the fence. One of the people on the tour was a gentleman named Tom. His uncle, Bernard Brennan was a member of the Brooklyn Bird Club from the 1950's to early 1990. He would come to Prospect Park with his uncle when he was young and now that he is getting back into birding, he looked up our tour and joined us. We went to the peninsula and got some great looks at the merganser's.
The group made their way back to the center to pick up the 10am birders. Eni and Vinnie led that group of 31 more people. They went back towards the lake and Bobbi was able to coax a kitten that had been hanging around the picnic tables into going with her to a shelter. Sean Casey is an animal rescue organization in Windsor Terrace. They came and took the kitty. Great news for kittens and birds alike. http://www.nyanimalrescue.org
Thanks to Carl for emailing me the bird list!
Next month will be early migration. Make plans now. 8am on Sunday April fools day!
Michele, Eni, Vinnie & Neal
Both walks saw these birds:
Coot
Mallard
Ruddy duck
Canada goose
Downy woodpecker
Bluejay
Brown creeper
Red bellied woodpecker
White breasted nuthatch
Mourning dove
Black capped chickadee
House finch
Cardinal
Grackles
Northern shovelers
Herring gull
Ring billed gull
Mute Swan
Tufted titmouse
Red winged blackbird
Robin
White throat sparrow
10 am
Ruby crowned kinglet
Pie billed grebe
Cormorant
Goldfinch
Mockingbird
Hermit thrush
Song sparrow
8am
Brown thrasher
Hooded merganser
Red tailed Hawk
Coopers hawk
Hairy woodpecker
Yellow bellied sapsucker
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