December 13th DUCKS OF KINGS COUNTY

NYC Bird Report

"Occupied" osprey nest platform at Bush Terminal Pier Park.photo by Karen O'Hearn

date = 2014/12/13
site = Prospect Park,Greenwood Cemetery, Bush Terminal Park,Coney Island Creek; 37th jetty,Hendrix Creek, Carnarsie Park, Floyd Bennett Field 8 locations total

Leader Peter Dorosh
observers = BBC 6members

Lunchtime and the gulls want in!

Common Loon
Red-throated Loon
Great Cormorant
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron

Can we take off with the car?

Northern Shoveler
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Gadwall

American Black Duck
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Greater Scaup
Red-breasted Merganser

Juvevile Cooper's Hawk at Prospect feeders.
Photo by Ryan Candee

Brant
Hooded Merganser
Eurasian Wigeon
Ruddy Duck
Mute Swan
Mallard
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Harrier
American Kestrel
American Coot
Great Black-backed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
American Crow
Blue Jay
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
Hermit Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Yellow bellied Sapsucker
Purple Sandpiper
White breasted Nuthatch

52 species, 12 ducks species


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