The First Days of Spring in Prospect Park
We had a mild winter, but nonetheless spring is here and it feels great. The birds and animals are feeling the change of the seasons and are out flying, swimming and running around for some fun in Prospect Park .
Anne-Katrin Titze, a New York State-licensed wildlife rehabilitator and park geese activist , took a stroll throughout the some of our neighborhood's 585-acre greenspace to watch the animals and birds move about and snapped some pictures for Patch.
Titze caught sight of Chance, a double-crested cormorant who she rescued this past December , NA03, a male Canada goose and regular visitor to Prospect Park Lake for the past four years, an egret fishing for breakfast, thirteen turtles who were sunbathing on the Lullwater, a male northern cardinal who was building his nest and a robin.
Nearly every morning Titze and her partner, Ed Bahlman, walk throughout the park to take in its gorgeous acres and to check up and their creature friends and their habitats.
As we progress farther into spring and many of our breeding birds are well into their seasonal duties, a number of wonderful migrant birds continue to pass through our area. Several folks have been quite happy to find rose-breasted grosbeaks visiting
Picture: Neil Mulligan www.communitypix.com.au Buy this photo MARILEE Burtt shares her home with a cormorant, a galah, honeyeater, parrots and a dumped cat. However, the kind-hearted operator of the local Animal Ambulance, which she started to assist