Monday, November 9, 2015

November 8th: Fresh Kills Park and Staten Island Locales

Horned Lark, Fresh Kills, photo'd by Janet Zinn


Leader Seth Wollney

Observers: Dave Eib, Peter Dorosh, Mary Eyster, Janet Schumacher, Alexis Clements, Janet Zinn, Alan Baratz, Sandy Paci, Nina Bai


Locations (in order of visit ) : Great Kills Park, Arden Avenue, Mt Loretto Preserve, Fresh Kills Restoration site ( restricted access except permit)


Richmond, Richmond, New York, US
Nov 8, 2015 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
25.0 mile(s)
53 species
Brant  X
Canada Goose  X
Mute Swan  X
Gadwall  X
American Black Duck  X
Mallard  X
Northern Pintail  32     Mult obs
Long-tailed Duck  X
Bufflehead  X
Common Goldeneye  1     Hen
Hooded Merganser  X
Red-breasted Merganser  X
Red-throated Loon  X
Common Loon  X
Pied-billed Grebe  X
Horned Grebe  24
Double-crested Cormorant  X
Great Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  X
Osprey  1     Perched at Great Kills park,mult obs
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1 
Common Buckeye, photo'd by Janet Zinn

Black-bellied Plover  2
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Dunlin  4
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X
Mourning Dove  X
American Kestrel  1
Blue Jay  X
Horned Lark  2
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  X
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  X
Snow Bunting  3     Flyover
Yellow-rumped Warbler  X
Field Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco  2
Savannah Sparrow  X
Song Sparrow  X
Red-winged Blackbird  X
Common Grackle  X
House Finch  1
House Sparrow  X
Eastern Towhee

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Dunlins at Great Kills, photo'd by Janet Zinn

photo source Janet Zinn
Brooklyn, NY 
www.janetzinnphotography.com