Prospect Park--Little Winter Birds 12/3

The feeders are up in Prospect Park and they are attracting all the expected little winter birds--nuthatches, chickadees, finches, titmice. Frankly, watching the birds flit on & off the feeders, while entertaining, feels like cheating. Stand there for a few minutes and boom--you've got 10 species of birds.

Today's jaunt took me from the 15th Street entrance, to the pools, along Rocky Pass, the Nethermead, the Lily Pond, behind the Boathouse, along the Lullwater, to the feeders, over the Terrace Bridge, to the Wellhouse, around the lake, up a dirt path on Breeze Hill, the feeders again, retracing my way along the Lullwater, Boathouse, etc, briefly into The Ravine, a quick look at the Sparrow Bowl, back to the pools then out on 9th Street and PPW.  (Not as far as it sounds.)
List:
Number of species:    36
Canada Goose    3    !
Mute Swan    6
Mallard    50
Northern Shoveler    100
Ruddy Duck    200
Pied-billed Grebe    1    Upper Pool
Double-crested Cormorant    1
Great Blue Heron    1    Upper Pool
Red-tailed Hawk    4    Lily Pond, West Island, two south lake shore.
American Coot    12    Lullwater & Boathouse Pond, one on lake. 
Ring-billed Gull    50
Herring Gull    40
Rock Pigeon    20
Mourning Dove    35
Red-bellied Woodpecker    2
Downy Woodpecker    2    Feeders
Blue Jay    15
American Crow    4
Black-capped Chickadee    15
Tufted Titmouse    5
Red-breasted Nuthatch    1    Feeders
White-breasted Nuthatch    2
Carolina Wren    1    Breeze Hill
American Robin    3
Northern Mockingbird    1
European Starling    3
Fox Sparrow    4    Two next to Lily Pond, two Lullwater trail
Song Sparrow    2
White-throated Sparrow    40
Dark-eyed Junco    10
Northern Cardinal    12
Red-winged Blackbird    3
Purple Finch    1    Female @ feeders
House Finch    2    Feeders
American Goldfinch    12
House Sparrow    25