Date: Nov. 6, 2010 Place: Jones Beach and Point Lookout Nassau County Reported By: Joe Giunta The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens (BBG) birding class concluded its fall series of bird walks by visiting Jones Beach and Point Lookout, Nassau County. For the day we saw a total of 42 species. There were many highlights. We started the day off by seeing a Marbled Godwit mixed within the flock of American Oystercatchers on the sandbar off of the Coast Guard station. Also on the sandbar were a good number of Red Knot. We walked the median finding a good number of Red-breasted Nuthatches. We checked the sparrows near the Coast Guard station finding 3 White-crowned Sparrows mixed in with the more common sparrows. We left this area and headed to West End 1. After about 45 minutes we were able to get great looks at a Northern Shrike, a 'lifer' for many in our group. We got a telephone call alerting us to the presence of a Lark Sparrow at Zack's Bay. Our group was able to located the bird very readily among the picnic tables to the east of the entrance. We made one more stop at Point Lookout before heading home. Next to the first jetty we saw about 50 Common Eider. This was the sixth and last walk for the fall season, a season in which we recorded a total of 116 species.
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