jc forsythia 3/31/07
very nice image. for me spring means new assholes with jackhammers are blooming across the street
This spring is moving a little slow, thanks to the hard freeze in February, but it's definitely here. After striking out in Bucks I thought you'd want to know I saw 2 Wilson's Snipe in Prospect Park. And the Bonaparte's & Harrier are pretty good too... As for flowers, Red Maple is the tree you want to be looking at right now...
DATE: Saturday, 31 March 2007
LOCATION: Prospect Park
OBSERVERS: Alex Wilson
REPORTED BY: Alex Wilson
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret (1 or more seen in 3 spots around the Lake.)
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck (7, Upper Pool; 1, Lake.)
Bufflehead (Pair, Upper Pool.)
Red-breasted Merganser (Pair, Lake.)
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier (Adult male, flyover, Lake, 1:45 pm.)
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin (Duck Island.)
American Coot
Wilson's Snipe (2, Labella cove near skating rink.)
Bonaparte's Gull (2 winter adults on Lake 1:10 pm, flew off after 15
minutes.)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher (Peninsula.)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe (Common throughout.)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow (A few over Lake.)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper (7.)
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Common.)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (West Lake shore; Esdale Bridge.)
Hermit Thrush (5.)
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher (Upslope from Lamppost 249.)
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing (Vale.)
Pine Warbler (Lullwater cove feeders.)
Fox Sparrow (Fairly common.)
Song Sparrow (Common.)
Swamp Sparrow (Increasing numbers, some singing.)
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (14 on Nethermead early.)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Rappahannock Forsythia
Wow that's three weeks ahead of us. The rule being no digging around in the garden until the forsythia blooms
 jc forsythia from a couple of minutes ago.
Peach Blossoms in a jar
it's 9:30 pm and like clockwork there's a leaf blower blaring in the empty parking lot across the street blowing nothing but dust. No leaves or litter to speak of in this town of evergreens and hippies. There's plenty of trash though. I'd pitch a bottle off the balcony but the asshole always has the good sense to wear a hard hat.
car services routinely give multiple honks at all hours so their clients in the apartment/condo buildings know when to come down stairs. cars routinely block our driveways and double park blocking ups trucks, lost busses, semi trucks who honk and fire trucks who REALLY blast the honk till said double parker moves. with catholic schools at either end of the block, catholic moms get ghetto on you if you say anything to them about leaving their car blocking the drive way. we got sneakers hanging from power-lines near by (know what i mean?) and the school kids trash the place twice a day littering candy rappers and drink bottles. adult parkers clear out their car litter (including dirty dipers) into my trees fences. two cars across the street have handicap permits with designated vip street parking spots and neither appear to be owned or driven by the handicap + one of which usually doesnt move their car when the street sweeper comes by and they never get tickets so the street stays dirty there. aside from that its a nice block and a great time of year.
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- bill 4-02-2007 4:01 pm
- bill 4-02-2007 4:07 pm [add a comment]
very nice image. for me spring means new assholes with jackhammers are blooming across the street
- tom moody 4-02-2007 6:02 pm [add a comment]
This spring is moving a little slow, thanks to the hard freeze in February, but it's definitely here. After striking out in Bucks I thought you'd want to know I saw 2 Wilson's Snipe in Prospect Park. And the Bonaparte's & Harrier are pretty good too... As for flowers, Red Maple is the tree you want to be looking at right now...
DATE: Saturday, 31 March 2007
LOCATION: Prospect Park
OBSERVERS: Alex Wilson
REPORTED BY: Alex Wilson
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret (1 or more seen in 3 spots around the Lake.)
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck (7, Upper Pool; 1, Lake.)
Bufflehead (Pair, Upper Pool.)
Red-breasted Merganser (Pair, Lake.)
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier (Adult male, flyover, Lake, 1:45 pm.)
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin (Duck Island.)
American Coot
Wilson's Snipe (2, Labella cove near skating rink.)
Bonaparte's Gull (2 winter adults on Lake 1:10 pm, flew off after 15
minutes.)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher (Peninsula.)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe (Common throughout.)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow (A few over Lake.)
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper (7.)
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Common.)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (West Lake shore; Esdale Bridge.)
Hermit Thrush (5.)
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher (Upslope from Lamppost 249.)
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing (Vale.)
Pine Warbler (Lullwater cove feeders.)
Fox Sparrow (Fairly common.)
Song Sparrow (Common.)
Swamp Sparrow (Increasing numbers, some singing.)
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (14 on Nethermead early.)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
- alex 4-03-2007 4:44 am [add a comment]
Rappahannock Forsythia
- jimlouis 4-04-2007 12:05 am [add a comment]
Wow that's three weeks ahead of us. The rule being no digging around in the garden until the forsythia blooms
- L.M. 4-04-2007 12:16 am [add a comment]
- bill 4-04-2007 2:20 am [add a comment]
Peach Blossoms in a jar
- jimlouis 4-04-2007 3:23 am [add a comment]
it's 9:30 pm and like clockwork there's a leaf blower blaring in the empty parking lot across the street blowing nothing but dust. No leaves or litter to speak of in this town of evergreens and hippies. There's plenty of trash though. I'd pitch a bottle off the balcony but the asshole always has the good sense to wear a hard hat.
- steve 4-04-2007 8:41 am [add a comment]
- bill 4-04-2007 7:01 pm [add a comment]
car services routinely give multiple honks at all hours so their clients in the apartment/condo buildings know when to come down stairs. cars routinely block our driveways and double park blocking ups trucks, lost busses, semi trucks who honk and fire trucks who REALLY blast the honk till said double parker moves. with catholic schools at either end of the block, catholic moms get ghetto on you if you say anything to them about leaving their car blocking the drive way. we got sneakers hanging from power-lines near by (know what i mean?) and the school kids trash the place twice a day littering candy rappers and drink bottles. adult parkers clear out their car litter (including dirty dipers) into my trees fences. two cars across the street have handicap permits with designated vip street parking spots and neither appear to be owned or driven by the handicap + one of which usually doesnt move their car when the street sweeper comes by and they never get tickets so the street stays dirty there. aside from that its a nice block and a great time of year.
- bill 4-04-2007 7:11 pm [add a comment]