First Prospect Park record since 1950...
- 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]





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