At around 3pm today Peter Colen and I spotted a male EVENING GROSBEAK in Prospect Park. The bird was feeding on the seeds in a large tuliptree in the Ravine adjacent two large conifers. While watching the grosbeak we also had a flyover of a small flock of WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS. One other highlight from the park this afternoon was a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT continuing in the area around Breeze Hill. Peter and I first spotted it on the path that leads from Breeze Hill down to the Lullwater. The bird then flew across the hill towards the bird feeders where it briefly fed on multiflora rose hips (must know the health benefits of vitamin C). It eventually headed in the direction of the Terrace Bridge. There is a lot of shrubby underbrush in that general area and I suspect that the bird is working a circuit from the feeders to the bridge to the south-facing ridge along the Lullwater and back.
Good birding, Rob ********** Prospect Park, Kings, US-NY Nov 29, 2012 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 7.0 mile(s) 49 species Canada Goose Mute Swan (10.) American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Bufflehead (1.) Hooded Merganser (4.) Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe (5.) Double-crested Cormorant (2.) Red-tailed Hawk (2.) Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher (1.) Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (2.) Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker (1.) Northern Flicker (1.) Merlin (1, Grabbed an Eastern Bluebird from the ground near the Tennis House.) Blue Jay Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch (3.) White-breasted Nuthatch (4.) Brown Creeper (1.) Winter Wren (1.) Carolina Wren (2.) Golden-crowned Kinglet (4.) Eastern Bluebird (4; Actually 3, after one was snatched by a Merlin.) Hermit Thrush (1.) American Robin Gray Catbird (1, Vale of Cashmere.) Northern Mockingbird (1.) European Starling Yellow-breasted Chat (1, Path that descends from Breeze Hill to Lullwater.) Fox Sparrow (4.) Song Sparrow (2.) White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird House Finch White-winged Crossbill (6, Flying from Ravine to Midwood.) Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak (1, Feeding on tuliptree seeds in the Ravine near two large conifers.) House Sparrow -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
