Wednesday, January 2, 2013

January 1st,2013 : A Marathon New Year's Day along Brooklyn's Bay and Bight

Leader : Peter Dorosh


date = 2013/01/01
site = Owls Head, Gravesend Bay shore,Dreier Offerman Park, Coney Island region
observers = 5 BBC members

14 miles attained.

46 species    ( or 3.285 species per mile)

Common Loon 
Red-throated Loon 
Horned Grebe 
Northern Gannet 
Double-crested Cormorant 
Great Cormorant 
Great Blue Heron 
Northern Shoveler 
Bufflehead 
Gadwall 
American Black Duck 
Snow Goose 2
Canada Goose 
Common Goldeneye 5
American Wigeon 
Long-tailed Duck 
Greater Scaup 
Red-breasted Merganser 
Brant 
Ruddy Duck 
Mute Swan 
Mallard 
American Kestrel 
American Coot 
Purple Sandpiper 11
Great Black-backed Gull 
Bonaparte's Gull 
Ring-billed Gull 
Herring Gull 
Rock Pigeon 
Mourning Dove 
Downy Woodpecker 
American Crow 
Tufted Titmouse 
Black-capped Chickadee 
Carolina Wren 3
American Robin sign ?
Northern Mockingbird 
European Starling 
White-throated Sparrow 
Song Sparrow 
American Tree Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco 
Eastern Towhee 
Northern Cardinal 
House Sparrow 

"Mine's a dog's life.I walk here and there and everywhere"

--Claude Monet