Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Winter overnight weekend, February 11th-13th, 2012: Long Island's Mid-winter East End

Leader: Peter Dorosh

observers = Brooklyn Bird Club

Total cumulative walk distance: 10.23 miles


12 participants: Mary E, Sandy P, Monica B ,Bob O ,Lenore S , Donna E , Edith G , Chris E , Bob W, Dennis H , Mike Y

sites = Wertheim NWR, Smith's Point, Shinnecock region, Montauk region, Amangansett, Hook Pond, Orient Pt, Narrow River Road, Marion Causeway, Lake Marratooka, Iron Pier, EPCAL

Species list

Note: 20 species duck; 2 auks species,2 owls species, blue bold "good birds"


Common Loon

Red-throated Loon

Pied-billed Grebe

Horned Grebe

Red-necked Grebe Smiths Pt.

Northern Gannet

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Great Egret Shinnecock

Great Blue Heron

Turkey Vulture --5 f/o Orient Pt

Lesser Scaup --Eastport Seatuck Pond

Bufflehead

Gadwall

American Black Duck

Snow Goose --Orient Pt

Canada Goose

Ring-necked Duck --52 at Montauk's Tuthill Pond

Common Eider --mostly Montauk Pt.

Black Scoter various offshore sites

Common Goldeneye --Napeague harbor, Marion Causeway

American Wigeon

Long-tailed Duck

Greater Scaup

Red-breasted Merganser

White-winged Scoter --various offshore

Hooded Merganser

Common Merganser Hook Pond, 4

Canvasback Lake Marratooka, Eastport Lake

Ruddy Duck

Northern Pintail --Shinnecock

Surf Scoter --various offshore

Mute Swan

Mallard

Red-tailed Hawk

Northern Harrier --Smiths Pt Fire Island

American Kestrel Riverhead Sods

American Coot

Black-bellied Plover --Napeague Pt

Sanderling

Dunlin

Ruddy Turnstone

Great Black-backed Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

Lesser Black--backed Gull --Napeague, Lazy Pt

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Iceland Gull --Iron Pier, Jamestown

Common Murre --Offshore Hook Pond

Razorbill --Smith's Pt

Rock Pigeon

Mourning Dove

Snowy Owl

Eastern Screech Owl --heard, Amagansett

Belted Kingfisher

Downy Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

American Crow

Blue Jay

Horned Lark-- EPCAL

Tufted Titmouse

Black-capped Chickadee

White-breasted Nuthatch

Carolina Wren

American Robin

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Yellow-rumped Warbler

White-throated Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow --Shinnecock

Northern Cardinal

Red-winged Blackbird

Common Grackle

Eastern Meadowlark --EPCAL

House Finch

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

Wild Turkey--8 in tree along rte 27, 25+ Further Lane home front yard


82 species

other : Harbor Seal

Trip Photos

ICELAND GULL--photos by Chris Elliot

(click on pic to enlarge)



Photos from Sandy Paci : Black Scoters ,Bonaparte's Gull,LT Arctic Duck, Common Loon