Saturday, January 17, 2009

Long Island Weekend 1/9- 1/11/09

site = Long Island: Orient Point, South Fork/Montauk, South shore Shinnecock regions

date = Jan 9th-Jan11th, 2009

Brooklyn Bird Club Long Island Weekend 1/9-1/11/09

leader :Peter Dorosh

89 species

Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe (Cullloden Pt ( Montauk)
Northern Gannet (mostly Shinnecock Inlet)
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Brant
Mute Swan
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback (Seatuck Creek)
Redhead (Seatuck Creek)
Ring-necked Duck (27 Fort Pond ( Montauk) ; Seatuck Creek)
Greater Scaup (Seatuck Creek;Shinnecock)
Lesser Scaup (Seatuck Creek)
King Eider (2 females @ Montauk Pt)
Common Eider (Montauk Pt)
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye (Orient Pt Causeway;drake)
Hooded Merganser (Seatuck Creek)
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
American Coot (Seatuck Creek)
Black-bellied Plover (Napeague Pt;Shinnecock)
Ruddy Turnstone (Napeague Pt)
Sanderling
Purple Sandpiper (Ditch Plains; Orient Pt)
Dunlin
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Napeague Pt; Shinnecock)
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl (Orient Pt)
Snowy Owl (Smith's Pt Park)
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren (Orient Pt)
Eastern Bluebird (Calverton Grasslands)
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling ("flyover")
American Pipit (Shinnecock)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (common at Smiths Pt Park)
American Tree Sparrow (Montauk; Shinnecock)
Savannah Sparrow (6 east Hither hills preserev; also "Ipswich" Shiinecock)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Snow Bunting (Orient Pt; Shinnecock)
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark (~18 Calverton Grasslands)
House Finch
Pine Siskin (flyover Orient Pt)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
White-winged Crossbill (14 Orient Pt Beach State Park)
Wild Turkey (7 Calverton Grasslands)