Greetings, Peter
Beginning at Bartel-Pritchard at 8:30 am with a cohort of twelve and finishing at 1:00 pm at Vanderbilt Playground, we tallied nearly 50 species. Highlights were several Brown Creepers, the Goshawk, Pine Warblers, a Winter Wren and at least one mystery bird (a raptor) hovering high in the overcast sky.
See my eBird list (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S35456886) and other lists.
Best regards, Ed
also Ryans List
Here's my list, Peter. We saw a few extra birds after we left the group: the second swamp sparrow on the west shore of the lake, and the Kestrel picking off a house sparrow at Park Circle!
51 species...not bad.
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Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:36 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Mar 26, 2017
To: ryangoldberg@gmail.com
Prospect Park, Kings, New York, US
Mar 26, 2017 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: BBC "Spring Awakenings" walk led by Ed Crowne. Cold, cloudy, high 30s. Still a very good day. Started at Bartel-Pritchard, to the Pools, Ravine, Nethermead, Lullwater, Peninsula. Left at noon with the group still to visit Lookout. High number of eastern phoebe and golden-crowned kinglet.
51 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 80
Mute Swan 8
Wood Duck 12 Two pairs in a tree at one point. Chased onto the Upper Pool by a Cooper's hawk.
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 35
Northern Shoveler 28
Ring-necked Duck 1 Drake near Peninsula point.
Bufflehead 2 Drake and hen.
Red-breasted Merganser 1 Drake.
Ruddy Duck 40
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2 One perched on the railing of the Pavilion theatre.
Buteo sp. 1 Flying very high near Bartel-Pritchard entrance. Group leaned toward red-shouldered; it flitted its wings in place often, tail was long, wings seemed pulled forward. But too far to positively ID.
American Coot 12
Ring-billed Gull 70
Herring Gull 5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 10
Mourning Dove 3
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 4 All on the ballfields with a large flock of robin.
American Kestrel 1 Seen perched on a water tower across from Park Circle as we were leaving the park. Took flight and picked off a house sparrow in midair, and returned to an antenna atop an adjacent apartment building.
Merlin 1 Perched near Tennis House overlooking the ballfields.
Eastern Phoebe 7
Blue Jay 4
Black-capped Chickadee 15
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Brown Creeper 3 A pair together on the Peninsula, and the other on the ballfields perimeter.
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 10
American Robin 35
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling X
Pine Warbler 2 Together outside the first ballfield when entering at Bartel-Pritchard.
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Dark-eyed Junco 3
White-throated Sparrow 8
Song Sparrow 14
Swamp Sparrow 2 Peninsula meadow on the lake and west shore of lake.
Northern Cardinal 9
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
American Goldfinch 2
European Goldfinch 1 Heard at the feeders.
House Sparrow 14
Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:36 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Mar 26, 2017
To: ryangoldberg@gmail.com
Prospect Park, Kings, New York, US
Mar 26, 2017 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: BBC "Spring Awakenings" walk led by Ed Crowne. Cold, cloudy, high 30s. Still a very good day. Started at Bartel-Pritchard, to the Pools, Ravine, Nethermead, Lullwater, Peninsula. Left at noon with the group still to visit Lookout. High number of eastern phoebe and golden-crowned kinglet.
51 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 80
Mute Swan 8
Wood Duck 12 Two pairs in a tree at one point. Chased onto the Upper Pool by a Cooper's hawk.
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 35
Northern Shoveler 28
Ring-necked Duck 1 Drake near Peninsula point.
Bufflehead 2 Drake and hen.
Red-breasted Merganser 1 Drake.
Ruddy Duck 40
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2 One perched on the railing of the Pavilion theatre.
Buteo sp. 1 Flying very high near Bartel-Pritchard entrance. Group leaned toward red-shouldered; it flitted its wings in place often, tail was long, wings seemed pulled forward. But too far to positively ID.
American Coot 12
Ring-billed Gull 70
Herring Gull 5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 10
Mourning Dove 3
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 4 All on the ballfields with a large flock of robin.
American Kestrel 1 Seen perched on a water tower across from Park Circle as we were leaving the park. Took flight and picked off a house sparrow in midair, and returned to an antenna atop an adjacent apartment building.
Merlin 1 Perched near Tennis House overlooking the ballfields.
Eastern Phoebe 7
Blue Jay 4
Black-capped Chickadee 15
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Brown Creeper 3 A pair together on the Peninsula, and the other on the ballfields perimeter.
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 10
American Robin 35
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling X
Pine Warbler 2 Together outside the first ballfield when entering at Bartel-Pritchard.
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Dark-eyed Junco 3
White-throated Sparrow 8
Song Sparrow 14
Swamp Sparrow 2 Peninsula meadow on the lake and west shore of lake.
Northern Cardinal 9
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
American Goldfinch 2
European Goldfinch 1 Heard at the feeders.
House Sparrow 14
