How apropos, but I planned it that way: two hours in the Refuge before this evening's Jamaica Bay Task Force meeting to discuss deranged plans to expand JKF runways into Bay. Highlights were the little blue heron; ospreys mating; very close blue-winged teal; two gangs of Black-crowned night herons; flushing a Wilson's snipe from the very muddy South Garden. Would have thought that area would be more Woodcock terrain, but I had a good view of its russet tail.
Snow Goose X
Brant X
Canada Goose X
Mute Swan X
Gadwall X
American Black Duck X
Mallard X
Blue-winged Teal 5 (East Pond)
Northern Shoveler X
Green-winged Teal (American) 3 (West Pond)
Greater Scaup X
Bufflehead X
Red-breasted Merganser X
Ruddy Duck X
Double-crested Cormorant X
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 5
Little Blue Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 30 (clustered at Big John's Pond from Bench 4, West Pond)
Glossy Ibis 25
Osprey 4 (bayside nest and Crossbay Blvd nest)
Northern Harrier 1 (East Pond)
American Oystercatcher 6
Wilson's Snipe 1 (South Garden)
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Herring Gull (American) X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Rock Pigeon X
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 (South Garden)
Eastern Phoebe 2
American Crow X
American Robin X
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling X
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 6
Northern Cardinal X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
American Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow X
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Matthew
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