Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Saturday June 10, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, and many other observers
West Pond Trail, Big John's Pond and East Pond from overlook. Canada Goose Mute Swan Gadwall - 2 pairs East Pond Mallard Greater Scaup - male Lesser Scaup - male Ruddy Duck - 2 Mourning Dove - 8 including juvenile Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 females & nest (Charo) Clapper Rail - 2 heard American Oystercatcher - a dozen Semipalmated Sandpiper - at least 35 Willet - 2 or 3 Laughing Gull - flyovers Herring Gull - flyovers Great Black-backed Gull 2 or 3 Common Tern 20+ Forster's Tern - at least 2 Least Tern - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 5 perched, many flyovers Great Egret - a few Snowy Egret - a few Little Blue Heron - adult near West Pond Osprey nest Black-crowned Night-Heron - 4 Glossy Ibis - a few flyovers, others on East Pond Osprey -at least 5 plus 2 chicks in nest at the West Pond Cooper's Hawk - female with missing tail, cage wear and injured wing West Pond near bat box (rangers informed) Northern Flicker Willow Flycatcher - 5 or 6 pairs Great Crested Flycatcher - very vocal Eastern Kingbird - eating mulberries at parking lot Warbling Vireo Fish Crow Tree Swallow - in boxes Barn Swallow House Wren - 4 Carolina Wren American Robin Gray Catbird - at least 10 Brown Thrasher - 2 Northern Mockingbird - several Cedar Waxwing - 10 (pairs around) House Finch - 9 near visitors' center (some juveniles) American Goldfinch - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 4 American Redstart - 2 adult males, one yearling male Yellow Warbler - 20+ Eastern towhee - 3 singing males Song Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal - male & female Red-winged Blackbird - 10 Boat-tailed Grackle - 3 Brown-headed Cowbird - female Deb Allen -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
