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This morning I walked around Prospect Park for a few hours. Nothing majorly new, except for one Cooper’s Hawk in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. The feeders were shockingly quiet. Not a bird to be seen. I look for the American Pipit that’s been reported repeatedly on the Long Meadow over the last couple of weeks, but wiffed again even though another birder found it later. However, I did find another wing tagged Ring-billed Gull on Prospect Lake, this one a first winter bird. As best I can make out its number is A288:

Likely all the wing tagged gulls that are showing up lately are coming from Massachusetts where Dr. Tom French has been banding gulls. I should know more shortly. Multiple birders have been reporting them around the city. This is possibly the fourth from Prospect Lake alone.

Total species count for the morning was a respectable 28:

1. Canada Goose
2. Mute Swan
3. American Black Duck
4. Mallard
5. Northern Shoveler
6. Bufflehead
7. Ruddy Duck
8. American Coot
9. Ring-billed Gull
10. Herring Gull
11. Great Black-backed Gull
12. Rock Pigeon
13. Mourning Dove
14. Cooper’s Hawk
15. Red-bellied Woodpecker
16. Downy Woodpecker
17. Blue Jay
18. American Crow
19. Black-capped Chickadee
20. Tufted Titmouse
21. White-breasted Nuthatch
22. Carolina Wren
23. Hermit Thrush
24. American Robin
25. European Starling
26. White-throated Sparrow
27. Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
28. Northern Cardinal