WEEKEND OVERNIGHT: NEW JERSEY’S SHOREBIRD SPECTACLE AT BRIGANTINE NWR AUGUST 26 - AUGUST 27

Egrets in marsh

Red-necked Phalarope (Heydi Lopes)

Leader : Peter Dorosh
Participants: Ed Crowne, Bobbi Manian,Karen O'Hearn,Kathy O'Toomey,Ryan Goldberg,Angie Co, Adelia Harrison,Alie Ratay,Heydi Lopes.

Comments; All sightings in one preserve Edwin G Forsthye NWR (Brigantine Unit)

Aug 26,27, 2017 
Protocol: Area
2000.0 ac
105 species

in Red "outstanding bird/rare "
in Blue -"Quality bird"

Orchard Oriole ( Karen O'Hearn)

19 shorebird species

Snow Goose  (out of season)
Canada Goose  
Mute Swan  
Wood Duck  
Blue-winged Teal  
Gadwall  
Mallard  
Wild Turkey 
Pied-billed Grebe  
Double-crested Cormorant  
Great Blue Heron  
Great Egret  
Snowy Egret  
Little Blue Heron  
Black-crowned Night-Heron  
White Ibis  (vagrant )
Glossy Ibis 
White-faced Ibis  
Turkey Vulture  
Osprey  
Sharp-shinned Hawk  
Broad-winged Hawk  
Sora  
American Oystercatcher  
Black-bellied Plover  
Semipalmated Plover  
Hudsonian Godwit  
Marbled Godwit  
Ruddy Turnstone  

BBC group scoping the shorebirds (Karen O'Hearn)

Stilt Sandpiper  
Least Sandpiper  
White-rumped Sandpiper  
Pectoral Sandpiper  
Semipalmated Sandpiper  
Western Sandpiper  
Short-billed Dowitcher  
Long-billed/Shortbilled Dowitcher  
Red-necked Phalarope  
Spotted Sandpiper  
Greater Yellowlegs 

Hudsonian Godwit ( Heydi Lopes)

Willet  
Lesser Yellowlegs  
Laughing Gull 
Ring-billed Gull  
Herring Gull  
Great Black-backed Gull  
Least Tern  
Caspian Tern  
Black Tern  
Forster's Tern  
Black Skimmer  
Mourning Dove  
Chimney Swift  
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  
Red-bellied Woodpecker 
Downy Woodpecker 
American Kestrel  
Peregrine Falcon  
Eastern Phoebe  
Great Crested Flycatcher

White Ibis with Glossy Ibis ; one of three ibis species ( Bobbi Manian)

 
Eastern Kingbird  
White-eyed Vireo  
Red-eyed Vireo 
Blue Jay 
American Crow     
Fish Crow  
Tree Swallow  
Bank Swallow 
Barn Swallow 
Tufted Titmouse  
White-breasted Nuthatch  
Marsh Wren  
Carolina Wren  
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  
Gray Catbird  
Brown Thrasher  
European Starling  
Cedar Waxwing  
Black-and-white Warbler       
Common Yellowthroat  
American Redstart  
Yellow Warbler  
Pine Warbler  
Prairie Warbler  
Seaside Sparrow (heard) 
Chipping Sparrow 
Song Sparrow  
Northern Cardinal  
Blue Grosbeak  
Baltimore Oriole  
Red-winged Blackbird  
Brown-headed Cowbird     

White faced Ibis (Heydi Lopes)

Common Grackle  
House Finch  
Purple Finch  
American Goldfinch 
House Sparrow  
Common Tern
Carolina Chickadee
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Field Sparrow
American Robin
Clapper Rail
Rock Pigeon

Snow Goose (Heydi Lopes)

Hudsonian Godwit with Greater Yellowlegs ( Karen O'Hearn)

August 12th Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens

leader Tom Stephenson

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Stephenson <12toms@gmail.com>
To: ProsBird@aol.com <prosbird@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 14, 2017 7:06 am
Subject: Re: Jam Bay Trip

3 species to add to the list I forgot:

Bald Eagle (one flew in and landed on the mud)

Marsh Wren

House Finch

I'm happy to report that the trip to Jamaica Bay yielded a good number of shorebirds and some other species. It was a bit dicey walking around Dead Man's Cove but otherwise the water levels were fine and there was a reasonably good selection of species. Nothing rare but at least good views of almost everything we had.

Highlights included

Lots of Juv Short-billed Dowitchers

Several Stilt Sandpipers

Several White-rumped Sandpipers

Juv and adult Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers

Nice fly-bys of Yellow-crowned NIght-heron

A snout butterfly (thanks to Tom and Gail)

A sand wasp covering over a hole it had dug in the sand.

Below is the list and attached a few photos.

Best regards,

Tom

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Glossy Ibis

Canada Goose

Mute Swan

Wood Duck

Gadwall

Mallard

Osprey

Peregrine Falcon

Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer

American Oystercatcher

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Willet

Spotted Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Short-billed Dowitcher

Laughing Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Common Tern

Forster's Tern

Rock Dove

Mourning Dove

Chimney Swift

Willow Flycatcher

Blue Jay

Fish Crow

Tree Swallow

Barn Swallow

Carolina Wren

House Wren

Gray Catbird

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Yellow Warbler

Northern Waterthrush

Common Yellowthroat

Eastern Towhee

Song Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Red-winged Blackbird

Common Grackle

Boat-tailed Grackle

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow