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
