Feb 24th WESTERN TRAILS OF ROCKAWAY, QUEENS

Snowy Owl photo'd by Charles Tang

Tundra Swans (59) flyby, photo's cropped by Dave Guo

Leader :Peter Dorosh

8 Participants

Hilights: 2 Snowy Owls. 59 Tundra Swans flock fly by at Breezy Point Tip,Common Eiders; 30 species

List ( courtesy of Louis DeMarco)

House Finch photo'd by Charles Tang

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S43213821

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S43213843

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S43213876

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S43213832 


PhotoGallery courtesy of photographer Charles Tang

https://tinyurl.com/WestTrailsBBC

Snowy Owl adult phot'sby Charles Tang

Group pic  taken by Charles and Bill

Fwd: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Feb 10, 2018

Presidential Walk 

leader Dennis Hrehowsik

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Dennis Hrehowsik" <deepseagangster@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 10, 2018 7:36 PM
Subject: Fwd: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Feb 10, 2018
To: "Peter Dorosh" <prosbird@gmail.com>
Cc:

Peter,

Ten birders met on a balmy February morning where highlights were continuing black headed Gull spotted today by Kathy Toomey. Confiding wood duck and wigeon near ladder 15. Chickadee and tufted titmouse which have been thin on the ground this winter. Five woodpecker sweep with sap sucker being spotted by Denise just as we were leaving park. 43 species total. 

Best,

Dennis 


Begin forwarded message:

From: ebird-checklist@cornell.edu
Date: February 10, 2018 at 7:28:27 PM EST
To: deepseagangster@gmail.com
Subject: eBird Report - Prospect Park, Feb 10, 2018

Prospect Park, Kings, New York, US
Feb 10, 2018 9:10 AM - 1:10 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
43 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  100
Mute Swan  10
Wood Duck  1
Northern Shoveler  45
American Wigeon  2
Mallard  75
American Black Duck  2
Bufflehead  1
Ruddy Duck  18
Horned Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
American Coot  8
Black-headed Gull  1     Continuing bird. Superficially similar to Bonaparte's. Elegant small Gull red legs and bill. Dark spot behind eye.
Ring-billed Gull  350
Herring Gull  50
Great Black-backed Gull  10
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  10
Mourning Dove  7
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Blue Jay  10
Fish Crow  1
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Brown Creeper  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet  2     Along lullwater near ice ladder 23.  Kinglets with yellow head stripe.
American Robin  7
European Starling  100
White-throated Sparrow  12
Song Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  8
House Finch  3
European Goldfinch  1
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  15

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42658945

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Jones Beach Feb 3rd

Leader Joe Giunta


-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Schumacher <janets33@optonline.net>
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 4, 2018 01:46 PM
Subject: Jones Beach-a little narrative for trip report if you want

Beautiful sunny day at Jones Beach but cold. Bundled up, we managed to see some nice birds, and it warmed up before we finished. An early find was a snowy owl, which was just a white spot on top of a dune. If you want to see a snowy, look for photographers. The photographers were easy to spot. The owl flew away before we got closer, and we continued down to the jetty for purple sandpipers. Almost at the jetty, we spotted the snowy owl in the rocks on the beach. A large flock of dunlins was also huddling together by the jetty.

We found a purple sandpiper, and later a flock of Bonaparte gulls. A mature and an immature King eider were off shore at a distance, mixed in with some Common eiders and a huge flock of Greater scaup. The four Harlequin ducks were easier to spot resting on a rock near the end of one jetty. Snow buntings showed briefly and only a few got a look, but horned larks were seen by all.

Photo by Zhichao Guo 

Checklists ( courtesy of Adelia Harrison)

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42516342  Fireman Park

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42516345  West End

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42516346  Coast Guard Station