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| Atlantic Fiddler Crab Photo by Chris Miller |
Leader Peter Dorosh
5 participants
Checklists ( Thanks to Rusty Harold)
Plumb Beach https://ebird.org/checklist/S188616789
Arverne Nature Center https://ebird.org/checklist/S188616806
Fort TIlden https://ebird.org/checklist/S188616835
Highlights : 5 Piping Plovers and 2 Brown Pelicans at Plumb Beach
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| Herring Gull and crab , Photo by Chris Miller |
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| Black Skimmer , photo by Chris Miller |
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| At Arverne east Nature Center ,Photo by Shiri Yarkozy |
Leader Peter Dorosh
8 members
West Pond
https://ebird.org/checklist/S182039964
East Pond
https://ebird.org/checklist/S182040196
East Pond:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
Canada Goose |
Mute Swan |
Gadwall |
Mallard |
Ruddy Duck |
Willet |
Laughing Gull |
Forster's Tern |
Black-crowned Night Heron |
Great Egret |
Glossy Ibis |
Tree Swallow |
Barn Swallow |
House Wren |
Gray Catbird |
Northern Mockingbird |
American Robin |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Common Grackle |
Yellow Warbler |
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
Gadwall |
Mallard |
Ruddy Duck |
Mourning Dove |
American Oystercatcher |
Least Tern |
Gull-billed Tern |
Forster's Tern |
Double-crested Cormorant |
Black-crowned Night Heron |
Snowy Egret |
Great Egret |
Glossy Ibis |
Osprey |
Tree Swallow |
Barn Swallow |
House Wren |
Carolina Wren |
Gray Catbird |
Northern Mockingbird |
Song Sparrow |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Common Yellowthroat |
Yellow Warbler |
Northern Cardinal |
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| Yellow-breasted Chat photo by Barbara Schelkle |
The weather was spectacular. It began to get hot and buggy for a period, but then the breeze picked up, the bugs dispersed, and it was very pleasant.
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| Fledglings Great Egrets at Ocean City Rookery photo'd by Marisa Hernandez |
While the species count was not as spectacular as it has been at other dates (mid-May and late August/early September are always great!) there was still plenty to see. At the Leeds Eco-trail we got great views of an active Marsh Wren nest and the wrens themselves. We continued to hear Marsh Wrens throughout the day. There were hundreds of Semipalmated Sandpipers with regular White-rumped Sandpipers, many Willets, breeding plumage Dunlin, Seaside Sparrows, four species of tern, and a Yellow-breasted Chat (life bird 500 for one participant). A top level birder has regularly reported King Rail and we heard rail calls that did sound potentially deeper pitched and slower than Clapper Rail but none of us felt sufficiently confident to make the ID. There was a surprising dearth of larger shorebirds other than Willet and Egrets. The whimbrel seem to have moved on, and we saw only one yellowlegs. We saw many winter plumage Black-bellied Plover but were not able to confirm an American Golden-Plover although one had been reported that week.
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| Marsh Wren Nest photo by Chris Miller |
The best spectacle was to be had at the Ocean City Heron rookery where eggs have hatched and we could see up close Great and Snowy Egrets and White Ibis feeding their young. Little Blue Herons and Glossy Ibis still appeared to be incubating eggs. There were plenty of Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night Herons although we did not see any nests or young. We did see juveniles of both species. We aren't sure if they finished their breeding activity earlier in the spring or just weren't breeding in that spot. We did spot juveniles of both night heron species but they could have been born in Florida or other southern states where nesting can begin in December or even November. We also spotted a couple of Tri-colored Herons, although did not see any breeding activity from them either.
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| singing Marsh Wren photo by Barbara Schelkle |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Great Egret |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| Canada Goose |
| Mute Swan |
| Wood Duck |
| Mallard |
| Solitary Sandpiper |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Rock Dove |
| Mourning Dove |
| Cuckoo Sp (brief view of back) |
| Chimney Swift |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee |
| Great Crested Flycatcher |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Blue-headed Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Red-eyed Vireo |
| Blue Jay |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Carolina Wren |
| House Wren |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Veery |
| Swainson's Thrush |
| Wood Thrush |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| European Starling |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Tennessee Warbler |
| Nashville Warbler |
| Northern Parula |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Magnolia Warbler |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Blackburnian Warbler |
| Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Blackpoll Warbler |
| Black-and-white Warbler |
| American Redstart |
| Worm-eating Warbler |
| Ovenbird |
| Northern Waterthrush |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Wilson's Warbler |
| Canada Warbler |
| Scarlet Tanager |
| Eastern Towhee |
| Chipping Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Swamp Sparrow |
| White-throated Sparrow |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Common Grackle |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Orchard Oriole |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| Purple Finch |
| American Goldfinch |
| House Sparrow |
