{"id":1000389,"date":"2007-02-04T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/02\/04\/chilly-saturday-in-prospect-park\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:43:51","slug":"chilly-saturday-in-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/02\/04\/chilly-saturday-in-prospect-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilly Saturday in Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy with writing lately that I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time to bird. However, yesterday I took a couple of hours for a spin around Prospect Park. I felt like I was playing hooky, and that I should really be writing instead. (I&#8217;ve got a looming deadline for March 15.) Nothing too surprising, 30 species total including my first King&#8217;s County Common Merganser for the year:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pied-billed Grebe<\/li>\n<li>Great Blue Heron<\/li>\n<li>Canada Goose<\/li>\n<li>Mute Swan<\/li>\n<li>American Black Duck<\/li>\n<li>Mallard<\/li>\n<li>Northern Shoveler<\/li>\n<li>Common Merganser<\/li>\n<li>Ruddy Duck<\/li>\n<li>Red-tailed Hawk<\/li>\n<li>American Coot<\/li>\n<li>Ring-billed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Herring Gull<\/li>\n<li>Rock Pigeon<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove<\/li>\n<li>Red-bellied Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li>Downy Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li>Blue Jay<\/li>\n<li>Black-capped Chickadee<\/li>\n<li>Tufted Titmouse<\/li>\n<li>White-breasted Nuthatch<\/li>\n<li>European Starling<\/li>\n<li>Fox Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Song Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>White-throated Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Dark-eyed Junco<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cardinal<\/li>\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird<\/li>\n<li>American Goldfinch<\/li>\n<li>House Sparrow <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also relocated NA23, but did not find his three banded buddies. I&#8217;ve heard rumors that one of them was picked up by the police on Flatbush Ave. a couple of weeks ago. (I swear I am not making that up.)<\/p>\n<p>I got home about 11:30 and was relaxed enough that I actually had a very productive afternoon, and made serious headway on both the book and the notes for SD 2007 West in March. I think I&#8217;m going to take another quick spin this morning and see if I can get my work done in the afternoon. So far my tally for the year is 37 species in Westchester County and 36 in King&#8217;s. I&#8217;ll see if I can add two more to push my King&#8217;s County list over Westchester today.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebird.org\/\">eBird<\/a> to keep track of my sightings in various locations. It&#8217;s a lot of fun, especially for tracking lists in different counties, states, and areas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy with writing lately that I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time to bird. However, yesterday I took a couple of hours for a spin around Prospect Park. I felt like I was playing hooky, and that I should really be writing instead. (I&#8217;ve got a looming deadline for March 15.) Nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}