Re: [nysbirds-l] 2009 Brooklyn Christmas Bird Count preliminary results

[Barry or Rita Freed]

It is good to know that your annual CBC (CHAPMAN Bird Count) went so well.
Please keep the sectarian label to yourself.

Yours for a non-sectarian society (and birding),
Barry Freed
Bronx, NY

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> Subject : [nysbirds-l] 2009 Brooklyn Christmas Bird Count preliminary results
> Date : Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:27:00 EST
> From : prosb...@aol.com
> To : NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu, eb...@cornell.edu
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>The preliminary results --subject to compiler's review -- of the December
>19th Brooklyn CBC totaled 123 species
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>Noted hi lights include American Bittern, Black-legged Kittiwake ( Breezy
>Point), Black-headed Gull ( Owls head),Lesser-blacked Backed Gull,Laughing
>Gull;Great Egret; Common Eider, Black Scoter, Common
>Merganser;Red-shouldered Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk; 4 owl species:Great Horned Owl, Long-eared
>Owl ,Short-eared Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl; Wilson's Snipe; Killdeer;
>Clapper Rail; Wrens: Winter and Marsh; rare or unseasonal warblers :
>Orange-crowned, Wilson's, Ovenbird, Black-throated Green Warbler ( Spring
>Creek;documented w/photos), Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow, White-crowned
>Sparrow,Eastern Meadowlark, Rusty Blackbird ( Prospect Park);a complete list is attached
>at the memo's end.
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>Thanks to head compiler Rick Cech, assisting dinner compiler Paul Keim,
>Heidi Steiner- Nanz for teams organization, Mary Eyster for dinner set-up ,
>and the many volunteers who help conduct the count in the field or assisted
>in the dinner setup at the Prospect Park Audubon Center, to whom we are
>grateful for their hospitality in hosting our CBC dinner.
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>This Brooklyn CBC was the 100th count conducted by Brooklyn Bird Club
>members and the supporting birding community both here in Brooklyn and New York
>City birders.
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>On behalf of the Brooklyn Bird Club community, I wish to express my
>gratitude to all for making our 2009 centennial a very successful and festive
>year, and those who wished us well. Thank you.
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>Happy Holidays ,
>
>Peter Dorosh
>President
>BBC
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>Brooklyn 2009
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