Brooklyn Waterfowl Count January 17th ( Cumulative)

At Marine Park,south team. Photo by Sandy Paci

NYC Bird Report

date = 2015/01/17
site = Brooklyn Marine Park,Dead Horse Bay,Fort Tilden sites,Breezy Point

observers = BBC Waterfowl count

Common Loon 
Red-throated Loon 
Pied-billed Grebe 
Horned Grebe 
Northern Gannet 
Double-crested Cormorant 
Great Cormorant 
Northern Shoveler 
Lesser Scaup 
Bufflehead 
Gadwall 
American Black Duck 
Canada Goose 
Common Eider 
Redhead 
Black Scoter 
American Wigeon 
Long-tailed Duck 
Greater Scaup 
Red-breasted Merganser 
Brant 
Canvasback 
Ruddy Duck 
Mute Swan 
Mallard 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 
Killdeer 
Sanderling 
Ruddy Turnstone 
Purple Sandpiper 
Great Black-backed Gull 
Ring-billed Gull 
Herring Gull 
Rock Pigeon 
Snowy Owl 
American Crow 
Black-capped Chickadee 
Northern Mockingbird 
European Starling 
American Pipit 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 
Swamp Sparrow 
White-throated Sparrow 
Snow Bunting 
Song Sparrow 
American Goldfinch 
House Sparrow 

Waterfowl numbers

date = 2015/01/17 

sites = Marine Park,Dead Horse Bay,Fort Tilden,Breezy Point

observers =Peter Dorosh (L),Rob Bate,Sandy Paci,Joshua Malbin,Monica Berger

 Common Loon 18 

Red-throated Loon 4 

Pied-billed Grebe 1

 Horned Grebe 13 

Double-crested Cormorant 1 

Great Cormorant 27

 Northern Shoveler 8 

Lesser Scaup 6 

Bufflehead 75 

Gadwall 6 

American Black Duck 65 

Canada Goose 148 

Common Eider 1 

Redhead 4 

Black Scoter 4 

American Wigeon 11 

Long-tailed Duck 52 

Greater Scaup 3416

Red-breasted Merganser 151 

Brant 694

 Canvasback 1

 Ruddy Duck 6 

Mute Swan 2 

Mallard 66

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North team.(waterfowl in purple tint)

Leader Mike Yuan

Hi Peter-




Pleasant weather but not so birdy today.  Nary a loon or grebe.  Great to have access to two new locations this year - Brooklyn Army Terminal 58th st Pier and the new Bush Terminal Piers Park.  




Birders: Bob Washburn, HJ Kim, Alie Ratay, and Heather Wolf 




Locations:

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Bush Terminal Piers Park, various spots around Red Hook, Ikea/Erie Basin, and the Columbia Street Pier.  




Day totals:




Brant 169

Canada Goose 97

Gadwall 51

Eurasian Wigeon 1  Continuing at Bush Terminal Piers Park

American Wigeon 13

American Black Duck 22

Mallard 93

American Black Duck/Mallard 1

Northern Shoveler 1

Greater Scaup 81

Lesser Scaup 44

Bufflehead 115

Red-breasted Merganser 11

Ruddy Duck 34

Double-crested Cormorant 9

Great Cormorant 2 - Bush Terminal, Van Brunt St Pier,

Ring-billed Gull 349

Herring Gull 89

Great Black-backed Gull 11

Rock Pigeon 28 

Peregrine Falcon 1  Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1

American Crow 1 

Fish Crow 1

American Robin 1

Northern Mockingbird 1 

European Starling 12

White-throated Sparrow 2

House Sparrow 21

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Prospect park/Greenwood cemetery

Leader Dennis Hrehowsik

To: prosbird Sent: Sat, Jan 17, 2015 12:30 pm Subject: Re: Waterfowl count

Lots of ice and Canada Geese on a cold bright morning. Five birders 33 species during waterfowl count. Highlight was two peregrines over park circle.

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Jones Beach January 10th

Leader Steve Nanz

Yes, really good trip. We had 10 people including myself. It was very cold but 
we were all dressed for it. Not much for species numbers or rarities but good 
looks at some quality birds and some very cool habitat

We started at the Coast Guard Station where Kevin and I saw a Black-headed Gull 
mixed in with a flock of Bonaparte’s Gulls which flew by. Unfortunately I 
couldn’t get the rest of the group on it. We saw several large flocks of Snow 
Buntings and Horned Lark up close by the far west end parking lot. At the point 
there was a flock of about 200 Dunlin huddled up against the jetty wall. Lot’s 
of Common Eider and Long-tailed Duck. At the Nature Center, a Harrier came in 
and flushed about 20-30 Black-bellied Plovers and about 100 Snow Buntings from 
the grasses. 

At the frist jetty from the Point Lookout Parking lot we saw a large flock of 
Common Eider with two Harlequin Duck and three Harbor Seals on one side and on 
the other were a large flock of Bonaparte's Gulls and a large flock of 
Long-tailed Duck. All were very close and seen well.

41 species.

Common Loon 
Red-throated Loon 
Horned Grebe 
Double-crested Cormorant 
Great Cormorant 
Great Blue Heron 
Harlequin Duck 
Bufflehead 
American Black Duck 
Canada Goose 
Common Eider 
Black Scoter 
Long-tailed Duck 
Red-breasted Merganser 
Brant 
Mallard 
Red-tailed Hawk 
Northern Harrier
Black-bellied Plover 
Sanderling 
Dunlin 
Ruddy Turnstone 
Black-headed Gull 
Great Black-backed Gull 
Bonaparte's Gull 
Ring-billed Gull 
Herring Gull 
Rock Pigeon 
Mourning Dove 
Northern Flicker 
American Crow 
Horned Lark 
Northern Mockingbird 
European Starling 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 
Snow Bunting 
Song Sparrow 
White-throated Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird 
House Finch 
House Sparrow 

Steve

January 3rd, A Coney Island Winter Trek

Leader Mike Yuan

Lesser Black backed Gull,photo by Bobbi Manian

Subject: Coney Island 1/3

Great company and conversation on Coney Island today!  Highlights for the 12 birders today were finding the continuing Lesser black-backed gull and Red-necked grebes, getting textbook looks at a Long-tailed duck who took a breather on the beach, and of course celebrating it all at Totonno's with classic NYC pizza. 

Lesser Black backed Gull,photo by Dennis Hrehowsik

Checklists

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21165104

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21165225

Thanks everyone for a great day. 

-Mike.

Photo by Alie Ratay

Long- tailed Duck on beach at Norton Point,photo by Bobbi Manian

Thursday, January 1st, 2015, A Birdy New Year's Day Celebration in Prospect Park

Leader Peter Dorosh
12 participants


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The Prospect Park new year starts out with a bang,likely the best quality walk for the date done by the Brooklyn Bird Club. Though only 37 species tallied,4 were considered rare by Cornell Ebird. A club walk done for a celebratory reasons turns out to be above expectations for the New Years Day tradition.

Getting to the rarities, as the walk started off slowly, here is the roll call: RUSTY BLACKBIRD,RED SHOULDERED HAWK,PURPLE FINCH,COMMON MERGANSER,PINE SISKIN and remnants of the group after the walk ended saw adult BALD EAGLE.A very good walk indeed.

Details on the sightings are as follows:RUSTY BLACKBIRD was spotted at Lily Pool before it flew into the pond from the woods pathway; soaring over the Willink Ridge by Lincoln road park entrance,the RED SHOULDERED HAWK appeared;PURPLE FINCH is a CBC stay over at the feeders; COMMON MERGANSER,a drake swam around the Prospect Lake center before we headed around the southwest corner near West Island; last at the West Island rustic shelter,three sweetgum trees are perfect for attracting finches, and here is where we found 4 PINE SISKINS some holdovers of a larger flock visiting this area the past week.

As the Brooklyn Bird Club ended here at West Island,remnants of the group left going up Lake West drive and spotted the eagle. An adult BALD EAGLE ,making today's walk for a usually quiet Prospect winter day more exciting and delightful.Particularly different members spotted the different rarities made the walk a fun relaxing one.

Happy New Years to all you birders! Let's get some more good ones in 2015.

Peter
Leading BBC walk

--The KingsBoider