First Prospect Park record since 1950...
Of course it's confirmed. Its an AW sighting!!!
The good Doctor hard at work!! Congrats.....
congratulations, Alex!
what a great report! congrats mr wilson!
Way to kick some major ass!
Wait, a snipe is a real thing? Nice find.
Those familiar with the snipe hunt as a hazing ritual often don’t realize that snipe are real; in fact there are many species around the world, but only one in North America. I was gratified some years back when it got reclassified and regained the name Wilson’s Snipe (from namesake Alexander Wilson, “father of American ornithology”) after a period when it had been considered co-specific with the old world Common Snipe. I couldn’t get any photos this time around, but both sandpipers are shown on my Calvert Vaux Park page. The Upland seen there in 2010 was considered a good sighting as they are very rarely seen in NYC proper, but in heavily trafficked parks like Prospect they're all but unheard of, hence the brief early-morning encounter before the joggers and dog walkers arrived to drive off the field birds.
Nice wiki list of Common Items. In summer camp we were made to hunt for "Bull Gators" an especially large frog which could be mesmerized by flashlight.
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- alex 4-26-2012 12:27 pm
Of course it's confirmed. Its an AW sighting!!!
- bill 4-26-2012 12:31 pm [add a comment]
The good Doctor hard at work!! Congrats.....
- Skinny 4-26-2012 2:41 pm [add a comment]
congratulations, Alex!
- sally mckay 4-26-2012 3:36 pm [add a comment]
what a great report! congrats mr wilson!
- Erin Boberg 4-26-2012 9:52 pm [add a comment]
Way to kick some major ass!
- steve 4-27-2012 3:21 am [add a comment]
Wait, a snipe is a real thing? Nice find.
- mark 4-27-2012 7:43 am [add a comment]
Those familiar with the snipe hunt as a hazing ritual often don’t realize that snipe are real; in fact there are many species around the world, but only one in North America. I was gratified some years back when it got reclassified and regained the name Wilson’s Snipe (from namesake Alexander Wilson, “father of American ornithology”) after a period when it had been considered co-specific with the old world Common Snipe. I couldn’t get any photos this time around, but both sandpipers are shown on my Calvert Vaux Park page. The Upland seen there in 2010 was considered a good sighting as they are very rarely seen in NYC proper, but in heavily trafficked parks like Prospect they're all but unheard of, hence the brief early-morning encounter before the joggers and dog walkers arrived to drive off the field birds.
- alex 4-27-2012 12:42 pm [add a comment]
Nice wiki list of Common Items. In summer camp we were made to hunt for "Bull Gators" an especially large frog which could be mesmerized by flashlight.
- adman 4-27-2012 1:16 pm [add a comment]