I spent the day at the Massapequa Preserve. I saw 53 species, pretty good for a winter's day of birding. There were some early arrivals, like a pair of ospreys, a pair of great egrets, a hermit thrush and some tree sparrows. Somewhat rare according to ebird were three Eurasian wigeons. The most unusual sighting was a white-winged crossbill in the mixed pine-hardwoods forest on the greenbelt trail.
For those people who aren't on ebird here's the list: Canada Goose 90 Mute Swan 11 Gadwall 12 Eurasian Wigeon 3 American Wigeon 8 American Black Duck 10 Mallard 100 Northern Shoveler 1 Green-winged Teal 3 Ring-necked Duck 4 Hooded Merganser 5 Red-breasted Merganser 8 Ruddy Duck 13 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 2 Osprey 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 American Coot 9 Ring-billed Gull 75 Herring Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 20 Mourning Dove 7 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 1 Tree Swallow 8 Black-capped Chickadee 10 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 3 Winter Wren 4 Carolina Wren 2 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 25 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 10 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 7 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 6 Red-winged Blackbird 10 Common Grackle 20 White-winged Crossbill 1 House Sparrow 30 -- 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/ --
