10/24/10 - Jones Beach State Park, Wantagh, NY
Time: 9am to 1pm
Observers: Andrew Block, Doug Bloom, Mike Bochnik, Bernie Conway, and BRSS/HRAS
group
hundreds of Double-crested Cormorants
1 Great Egret
1 Great Blue Heron
60+ Snow Geese (incl. one Blue Goose)
many Canada Geese
many Brants
several American Black Ducks
4 Mallards
2 Black Scoters
many scoter spp. (probably blacks)
2 Northern Harriers
1 Cooper's Hawk
3 Merlins (one caught a sparrow right in front of us)
1 Peregrine Falcon
many Black-bellied Plovers
1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
150+ American Oystercatchers
several Willets
1 MARBLED GODWIT
8+ RED KNOTS
10+ Sanderlings
hundreds of Dunlins
30+ Laughing Gulls
many Herring Gulls
many Ring-billed Gulls
several Great Black-backed Gulls
1 FORSTER'S TERN
60+ Rock Pigeons
8+ Mourning Doves
3 Downy Woodpeckers
2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers
4 Northern Flickers
3 Eastern Phoebes
3 American Crows
many Tree Swallows
4+ Black-capped Chickadees
3 Red-breasted Nuthatches
many Golden-crowned Kinglets
2+ Ruby-crowned Kinglets
1 Hermit Thrush
5+ American Robins
1 Gray Catbird
3 Northern Mockingbirds
many European Starlings
many Yellow-rumped Warblers
3 Common Yellowthroats
1 Eastern Towhee
4 Chipping Sparrows
1 Field Sparrow
6+ Savannah Sparrows
many Song Sparrows
4+ Swamp Sparrows
dozens of White-throated Sparrows
30+ White-crowned Sparrows (all imm.)
several Dark-eyed Juncos
2 Northern Cardinals
1 EASTERN MEADOWLARK
8 Brown-headed Cowbirds
1 PINE SISKIN
1 American Goldfinch
several House Sparrows
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Naturalist/Wildlife Biologist
37 Tanglewylde Avenue
Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131
Phone: 914-337-1229; Fax: 914-771-8036
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