Feb 1st Jones Beach State Park

Thick-billed Murre (very rare) near Lot 6  photo'd by Adelia who found it.

Leader Adelia Harrison ( Debut)


Photo gallery by Chares Tang

https://tinyurl.com/Jonesfeb12020

Adelia's report

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From: Adelia Honeywood <honeywood5@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 1, 2020, 10:02 PM
Subject: Jones Beach State Park
To: Peter Dorosh 

We arrived at Jones Beach State Park at 7:30 am and left Pt Lookout to go home after 5 pm. Kevin said it was the longest bird trip he'd ever been on, but clearly he has not been on enough of your trips!

The Thick-billed Murre, which we found at Jones Field 6 was a lifer for Kevin, Charles, Bob and Bets.

We hit the Coast Guard Station, the West End and walked out to the jetty, Field 6, the Gatsby playground hoping for the Painted Bunting without success, Nickerson and Pt Lookout.

We have a list of 40 species for the day. (You all, let me know if I missed something) We found one single Red Knot in a crowd of 500 Dunlin and a few dozen Black-bellied Plovers. Harlequins at both the Jones Beach West End jetty and Pt Lookout. We were sad to not find the Lapland Longspur at Nickerson, nor the Painted Bunting at Jones, and no Snowy Owl but we had a lot of other fun birds.

(The Latin names were part of the file I downloaded from eBird and I didn't feel like taking them out...)

Common Loon (Gavia immer)

Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)

Brant (Branta bernicla)

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)

Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)

Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)

Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)

Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)

Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)

Surf/Black Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata/americana)

White-winged Scoter

Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)

Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)

Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)

Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus)

Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)

Razorbill (Alca torda)

Sanderling (Calidris alba)

Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)

Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)

Red Knot (Calidris canutus)

Dunlin (Calidris alpina)

Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)

Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)

Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)

Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)

Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia (Feral Pigeon))

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Very fun day! Thank you, all!

Adelia