Monday, August 26, 2013

August 25th, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens

Trip Leader: Peter Dorosh

all photos by Steve Roffman and Peggy Herron
At the Raunt



date = 2013/08/25
site = Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
observers = Brooklyn Bird Club , 
8 members

Double-crested Cormorant 
Snowy Egret 
Little Blue Heron 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 
Great Egret 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 
Northern Shoveler 
American Black Duck 
Canada Goose 
Green-winged Teal 
Mute Swan 
Mallard 

Shorebird species= 13

Black-bellied Plover 
Semipalmated Plover 
American Oystercatcher 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 
Stilt Sandpiper 
Red Knot 
Least Sandpiper 
Short-billed Dowitcher 
Lesser Yellowlegs 
Spotted Sandpiper 
White-rumped Sandpiper 
Ruddy Turnstone 
Greater Yellowlegs 
At the East pond south end

Laughing Gull 
Great Black-backed Gull 
Forster's Tern 
Herring Gull 
Rock Pigeon 
Mourning Dove 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
Barn Owl 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Willow Flycatcher Traill's Empid,likely this species
Fish Crow ?
Barn Swallow 
American Robin 
Gray Catbird 
Northern Mockingbird 
European Starling 
Yellow Warbler 
American Redstart 
Black-and-white Warbler 
Northern Waterthrush 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 
Northern Cardinal 
Boat-tailed Grackle 
Brown-headed Cowbird 
House Sparrow 
addenum

Rinng-billed gull, American Crow,  Northern Cardinal
House Wren and Carolina Wren (heard)

Outside Big Johns Pond blind, Yellow Crowned Night heron immature
Peeking out from inside Big John's Pond blind