Wednesday, January 1, 2014

New Year's celebration of birds in Prospect Park

date = 2014/01/01
site = Prospect Park
observers = Brooklyn Bird Club New Year's Celebration of birds

Leader : Peter Dorosh
Northern Shoveler Lake, est 75
Canada Goose 
Wood Duck Upper Pool,drake
Hooded Merganser 2 Three Sisters Islands
Ruddy Duck 8 Lake
Mute Swan 
Mallard 
Cooper's Hawk perched Lamppost 249
Red-tailed Hawk 
American Coot 
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 
Herring Gull 
Rock Pigeon 
Mourning Dove 
Downy Woodpecker 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
American Crow 
Blue Jay 
Tufted Titmouse 
Black-capped Chickadee 
White-breasted Nuthatch 
Brown Creeper horse loop ballfields
Carolina Wren lullwater
American Robin 
Hermit Thrush 2 peninsula
Gray Catbird breeze hill feeders area; unseasonable
Northern Mockingbird 
European Starling 
White-throated Sparrow 
Song Sparrow 
Fox Sparrow 
Eastern Towhee male nethermead bridge north;unseasonable
Northern Cardinal 
Red-winged Blackbird 
Common Grackle 175 lawn near bartel pritchard square entrance
House Finch feeders,10
American Goldfinch 
House Sparrow 

late addition: Red-breasted Nuthatch



New birds from side trip to Greenwood Cemetery

date = 2014/01/01
site = GWC
observers = BBC side trip after Prospect, remaining members
Merlin 
Monk Parakeet 
Red-headed Woodpecker juvenile ,just inside main 25th St entrance,battle &   Arbor road "T" intersectio;stashing acorns

Fish Crow 

45 species