June 1st, Jamaica Bay & the Rockaways

Leader : Mike Yuan  

Thanks everyone for a terrific day on the marshes and the beach.  Great day with a great group. 

Harald, you can get us that "lifer" round of drinks at the next trip, and Marc, you can do the same for the next 18 BBC trips!

Here are the ebird checklists for each location.  Let me know if you want it for your ebird account and I can share it with you.

Participants : Bobbi Manian , Monica Berger, Leslie Coleman , Marc Brawer (driver), Rusty Harold, Randy Burton, Harald Parzer

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18651725

Big Egg Marsh - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18651764

Rockaway Park/Arverne Nesting Area - http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18651797

Complete list:

62 species total

Brant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Ruddy Duck
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Osprey
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
White-rumped Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Yellow Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow

Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow