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From: Dennis Hrehowsik <deepseagangster@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 7:52 PM
Subject: eBird -- Prospect Park -- Jan 1, 2019
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>, <roberta.manian@gmail.com>
From: Dennis Hrehowsik <deepseagangster@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 7:52 PM
Subject: eBird -- Prospect Park -- Jan 1, 2019
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>, <roberta.manian@gmail.com>
Peter,
20 birders met Bobbi and me at the Pergola on a balmy New Years morning. (50 degrees warmer than last year!) highlights were common merganser and first of year looks at Carolina wren, fox and swamp Sparrow, northern shovelers, cooper's and red tail hawks. A great start to the year.
45 Canada Goose
4 Mute Swan
75 Northern Shoveler
3 American Wigeon
25 Mallard
8 American Black Duck
1 Common Merganser -- Drake near the three sisters on prospect lake. Sleek Dark green head orange bill large white body with heavy bearing on the water.
30 Ruddy Duck
15 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
5 Mourning Dove
3 American Coot
305 Ring-billed Gull
17 Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
2 Great Blue Heron
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
25 Blue Jay
7 Fish Crow
3 Black-capped Chickadee
3 Tufted Titmouse
5 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Carolina Wren
2 American Robin
2 Northern Mockingbird
15 European Starling
3 House Finch
5 American Goldfinch
3 Fox Sparrow
4 White-throated Sparrow
2 Song Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
9 Red-winged Blackbird
2 Northern Cardinal
50 House Sparrow
Number of Taxa: 38
Dennis W Hrehowsik
President Brooklyn Bird Club
