Monday, November 22, 2010

November 21st "Rockaway Expedition"

Leader : Peter Dorosh


Photo gallery from Rusty Harold

http://picasaweb.google.com/erharold/TheRockaways?feat=email#slideshow/5542347799556165826

date = 2010/11/22

site = Rockaway Expedition

Locations :

Edgemere Park ( Rockaway Community Park), Bayswater Point State Park,
Arverne Beach,Riis Park, Fort Tilden

observers = 11

Number of Species  = 64

Common Loon

Red-throated Loon

Northern Gannet

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Cattle Egret  - Floyd Bennett Field

Bufflehead

Gadwall

American Black Duck

Canada Goose

Common Eider 27 at Arverne

Black Scoter

American Wigeon

Wood Duck

White-winged Scoter

Brant

Hooded Merganser

Surf Scoter

Mallard

Cooper's Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Northern Harrier

Peregrine Falcon

American Kestrel

Merlin

Semipalmated Plover

American Oystercatcher

Sanderling

Dunlin

Ruddy Turnstone

Greater Yellowlegs

Laughing Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Rock Pigeon

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

American Crow

Black-capped Chickadee

Carolina Wren heard

Hermit Thrush

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Yellow-rumped Warbler

White-throated Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

American Tree Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Red-winged Blackbird

Eastern Meadowlark at least 10 Edgemere landfill

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

European Starling

Northern Cardinal

Swamp Sparrow

House Finch

Golden-crowned Kinglet

American Robins

And one young Opossum.....(It didn't "fly" away)