A spring-like day and my duty as a citizen-scientist to participate in Cornell's Great Backyard Bird Count took me out this morning to Prospect Park. Prospect Park is my backyard. The best bird I saw was the last bird I saw--Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the Rose Garden. I saw it fluttering among the bare tree branches on the northern perimeter. It's rushing the season and that's all right with me.
Other new birds for the year: Hairy Woodpecker on the suet by the feeders--on one side was the Hairy, on the other a Downy Woodpecker, making the identification so easy; Common Grackles have returned; and I heard my first Carolina Wren of the year.
I am annoyed, though, that I missed 2 Ring-necked Ducks spotted by another birder on the lake. I can't imagine how I could have overlooked them. Maybe my timing was off, again.
Two lists:
Prospect Park
Number of species: 32
Canada Goose 153
Mute Swan 6
American Black Duck 4
Mallard 165
Northern Shoveler 77
Ruddy Duck 1
Red-tailed Hawk 4
American Coot 5
Ring-billed Gull 200
Herring Gull 100
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 8
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 18
Black-capped Chickadee 21
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 1 Near Wellhouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Rose Garden
American Robin 9 In sumac near peninsula
Northern Mockingbird 1 Behind Boathouse
European Starling 13
Song Sparrow 2 One behind Boathouse, one in Vale
White-throated Sparrow 10
Dark-eyed Junco 8 Vale
Northern Cardinal 20
Red-winged Blackbird 1 Lake shore
Common Grackle 4 Boathouse
House Finch 4 Breeze Hill
American Goldfinch 6 Five on Breeze Hill, one bathing in ice puddle on lake
House Sparrow 30
Feeders
Number of species: 16
Mourning Dove 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 5
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-throated Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 5
Red-winged Blackbird 1
House Finch 1
Pine Siskin 2
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 2
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