Leader Linda Ewing
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From: Linda Ewing <lkewing313@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Coney island species list
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>
From: Linda Ewing <lkewing313@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Coney island species list
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>
It was a beautiful day to be on the beach! We ended up with 6 participants (including me). We covered the beach (from just east of Stillwell looking toward Brighton Beach, all the way down to Seagate), scoped the Ocean from the Pier, and then (since we had some time) cut over to Coney Island Creek and Louis Kaiser Park. Highlights were Black and Surf Scoters, great looks at Long-tailed Ducks, and a close Northern Gannet (we saw more than one, but the others were distant).
Rusty kept an eBird list with approximate counts and will share it, but in the meantime, here are the species:
Canada Goose
Brant
Mallard
Am Black Duck
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Surf Scoter (many!)
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck (many)
Red-breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Rock Pigeon
Purple Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Loon (close looks)
Red-throated Loon
Northern Gannet
American Kestrel
American Crow
European Starling
House Sparrow
Great birds (the Long-tailed Ducks and the gannet were group favorites) and great pizza afterwards at Totonno's.
I really appreciated the chance to lead a walk - thank you!
Linda
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> On Jan 11, 2020, at 3:28 PM, Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Linda
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> U had great sunny weather this morning! Glad that happened.
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> Hopef your walk was fun n enjoyable.
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> And many thanks for your help.let me know how you felt about the walk. And at your convenience kindly send me your species list n number of people who went.
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> Much obliged!
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> Peter
