Sunday, August 14th, Shorebirds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Leader : Tom Stephenson


Red-winged Blackbird

Short-biilled Dowitcher

Mute Swan

Long-billed Dowitcher

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Black Skimmer

Common Tern

Forster's Tern

Herring Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Laughing Gull

Double-crested Cormorant

Gadwall

Canada Goose

Glossy Ibis

Northern Cardinal

Semipalmated Plover

Carolina Wren

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Osprey

Boat-tailed Grackle

Barn Swallow

Tree Swallow

Common Yellowthroat

Great BB Gull

Gray Catbird

Traill's Flycatcher species

List submitted by Rusty Harold

Early Shorebirds at Jamaica Bay Refuge July 31st

date = 7/31/11
site = Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
observers = Brooklyn Bird Club 12 members
Leader: Peter Dorosh

60 species

Double-crested Cormorant
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Egret
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Glossy Ibis
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Greater Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Mute Swan
Mallard
Osprey
Sora
Semipalmated Plover
American Oystercatcher
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Hudsonian Godwit
Greater Yellowlegs
Laughing Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Least Tern
Rock Pigeon
Willow Flycatcher
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Waterthrush
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Boat-tailed Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Eastern Towhee ( heard)
Fish Crow
Brown headed Cowbird

Other fauna and nature signs:
(Notes from Lenore Swenson)

Eastern Chipmunk
Raccoon tracks
Eastern Painted Turtle

Butterflies
Black Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Orange Sulphur
Eastern Tailed Blue
Monarch
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Dragonflies
Common Green Darner
Wandering Glider
Black Saddlebags
Blue Dasher
Familiar Bluet ( probable)

Annual Dog Day Cicada http://www.cirrusimage.com/homoptera_cicada_T_canicularis.htm
Fiddler Crab