Monday at the Alley Pond Environmental Center (APEC) in Queens, NYC I spotted a blue-winged teal and a first of the year for me great blue heron at the marsh restoration. There is a new walkway at APEC that leads into the marshes and it should be a good spot for birding. The old walkway was good. The Oakland Lake section of Alley Pond Park had a pair of pied-bill grebes along with other waterfowl.
Forest Park at the Streck Pond was quiet yesterday with the highlight being a pair of red-tail hawks and a yellow-bellied sapsucker. Fort Tilden had a variety of waterfowl. The numbers of any one species were low, but there were a variety of species, including three I had not seen before. Most of the waterbirds were located around the fisherman's parking lot. Some commercial fishing boats were dragging along the shore in the eastern section of the park. I thought this trawling might scare off the birds, but it seemed to push the birds towards the shore around the western part of the park where I spotted eiders, scoters, long-tailed ducks and loons. Alley Pond Park: Canada Goose 8 Mute Swan 2 Gadwall 12 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 19 Blue-winged Teal 1 Northern Shoveler 5 Lesser Scaup 2 Hooded Merganser 3 Ruddy Duck 9 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 1 American Coot 4 Killdeer 2 Ring-billed Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 24 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 1 Black-capped Chickadee 1 American Robin 3 European Starling 2 Song Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 9 Boat-tailed Grackle 1 House Sparrow Forest Park: Mallard 7 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Ring-billed Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 5 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 5 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 4 American Robin 6 European Starling 2 Song Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco 3 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 1 House Sparrow 1 Fort Tilden: Common Eider 1 Surf Scoter 1 White-winged Scoter 1 Black Scoter 3 scoter sp. 10 Long-tailed Duck 3 Red-throated Loon 1 Common Loon 2 Northern Gannet 3 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 5 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 4 gull sp. 20 Rock Pigeon 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Fish Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 1 American Robin 5 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 8 Fox Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 1 House Sparrow 2 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
