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Closing out the Holiday Season on Epiphany with
The Twelve Birds of Christmas – Brooklyn Edition
(OK, a couple of them are bugs, but let’s not quibble.)
Merlin Falcon at Owl’s Head Park
Scarlet Tanager at Owl’s Head 11/9/08 (very late)
Rusty Blackbird in Prospect Park (40% decline over the last 20 years)
Olive-sided Flycatcher at Calvert Vaux Park
Eyed Elator! Calvert Vaux Park
Monarch sex at Calvert Vaux Park
Horned Lark blending in with gravel at Calvert Vaux Park
American Golden-plover at Calvert Vaux Park
Eastern Bluebirds at Owl’s Head Park
Winter plumage Sanderling at Dyker Beach on Gravesend Bay
Why does Wilson’s Warbler insist on showing me its rear? Owl’s Head Park
And the first good bird of 2009 (well, it’s early.) Can you pick it out among 700 gulls?
Look closer, middle back, bigger than Ring-billed, smaller than Herring, darker than either, but not quite as dark as Great Black-backed…
Maybe from this angle…
Yes it’s a Lesser Black-backed Gull on the Lake in Prospect Park; a good rarity in the City (of course there are plenty in Buck’s County PA, but in bird watching everything is context.)