date = 2012/06/17
sites = Far Rockaway: Arverne Beach site, Bayswater Pt State Park, Edgemere/Rockaway Community Park; Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
observers = BBC led by Peter Dorosh
47 species
Double-crested Cormorant
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Egret
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
American Black Duck
Canada Goose
Ruddy Duck
Mallard
Osprey nesting ,perched and flying; Edgemere, JBWR
Piping Plover
American Oystercatcher
Willet
Gull-billed Tern
Laughing Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Common Tern
Black Skimmer
Herring Gull
Least Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow Edgemere
Song Sparrow
Boat-tailed Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow
Fish Crow
Common Yellowthroat
Ring billed Gull
Photo below taken by Dennis Hreshowsik, at JBWR , near Bench 11
Eastern Towhee consuming Autumn Olive fruit.