Monday, April 7, 2014

Flushing Meadows Park April 6th

Leader Peter Dorosh

Notes : BBC first visit in ages. Also visited Kissena Park post lunch


date = April 6th
site = Flushing meadows and Kissena Park
observers = BBC

Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Egret
Northern Shoveler
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
American Black Duck
Canada Goose
Red-breasted Merganser
Brant
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Mute Swan
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
Osprey
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
American Coot
Great Black-backed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
American Crow
Fish Crow
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow

Other nature note: flying red and black bugs toward the end at Kissena Corridor were likely Boxelder Bugs  (Boisea trivittata): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxelder_bug