Thursday, January 28, 2010

Prospect Park 1/28

The snow stopped.

It was certainly easy to find the cardinals today against the white backgrounds.

I finally found the American Pipit that's been reported there. It was right where everyone has said it was, in the fenced off area by the ball fields. It was bobbing its tail "almost constantly" as it says in Peterson. That, the Bufflehead on the Upper Pool and my FOY Great Blue Heron were the highlights. The lowlight? Listening to the terrible music coming from the skating rink. It's amazing how far away you can hear the music. Now I have Baby baby don't get hooked on me running on a loop in my head.

PROSPECT PARK
Number of species:     31

Canada Goose     130
Mute Swan     8
Wood Duck     1     Boathouse Pond.
American Black Duck     17
Mallard     347     Upper Pool, Boathouse Pond, Lullwater, Lake.
Northern Shoveler     8
Bufflehead     1     Upper Pool
Ruddy Duck     46
Great Blue Heron     1     Back of Upper Pool
American Coot     18
Ring-billed Gull     200
Herring Gull     1
Mourning Dove     20
Downy Woodpecker     7
Blue Jay     9
American Crow     1
Black-capped Chickadee     5
Tufted Titmouse     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
American Robin     25
Northern Mockingbird     1
European Starling     1
American Pipit     1     Enclosure near ballfields
Song Sparrow     1     On Lullwater trail
White-throated Sparrow     35
Dark-eyed Junco     15
Northern Cardinal     26
Red-winged Blackbird     4     Feeders
House Finch     7     Feeders
American Goldfinch     9     5 by lake, including the one in full    breeding plumage, 4 by feeders.
House Sparrow     8

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