Centennial Park
| Trip leader & Recorder: Dave Ziolkowski Photographers: Mary Lou Clark & Guy DiRoma |
Date of trip: March 16, 2025 |
| Location: Centennial Park | Number attending: 25 |
| Details: WEATHER: Overcast with a brief period of drizzle just before we started, 57°F at start and warming to 63° by end, with wind of 8 mph out of the south. Sunrise: 07:16. NOTES: Songbird activity was relatively low and quiet, save for songs from a few resident species coming into breeding. We found a spike buck Whitetail Deer skull and a small Groundhog skull under the cedars. Peepers were singing and a few turtles were up basking but no toads were seen or heard. We pulled a cold-stunned Red-eared Slider to the shore on the N side. Water levels in the pools on the north side of the lake were very low yet. | |
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Canada Goose 110
Wood Duck 4.
Mallard 6
Green-winged Teal 2.
Bufflehead 2
Hooded Merganser 6
Common Merganser 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Mourning Dove 8
Wilson’s Snipe 1
Ring-billed Gull 22
Horned Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 4
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 5
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Barred Owl 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 4
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 3American Crow 8
Fish Crow 4
Carolina Chickadee 11.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 9European Starling 14
Northern Mockingbird 9
Eastern Bluebird 6
American Robin 62
House Sparrow 2
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 9.
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 14\.
White-throated Sparrow 24
Song Sparrow 8
Swamp Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 7
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
Common Grackle 2
Northern Cardinal 16